[1970-01-01]

>Taxing battery weight is an indirect way to get at the underlying resource consumption in battery manufacturing and production.

Tax (curb - battery) weight then? So we can afford the 1000km vehicles we all say we need, while penalizing the heaviest and most inefficient EVs.

[linkjuice4all]

If the idea is to replace gas taxes as a means of funding roads then the tax should be based on a combination of damage done by the vehicle (which is basically a tax on weight) and some efficiency multiplier. I’ve seen it mentioned in the past that governments can just check your odometer reading on a yearly basis and charge a tax on that but it’s probably just easier to tax the electricity at the point of charge (specifically for charging purposes).

Ideally this would encourage lighter vehicles to cut down on the initial “weight” tax as well as increase efficiency of the vehicle overall (more miles per kilowatt hour).

There’s obviously going to be a lot of headaches for farm use vehicles and people generating their own power and paying a tax on it but how else do you pay for roads and incentivize people to stop driving gigantic vehicles?

[dsfyu404ed]

Pretty much the only vehicles that matter from an infrastructure wear and tear perspective are the heaviest traffic (which on every road that isn't a private driveway means commercial trucks).

If you want to tax that just tax based on the max GVW.