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by stetrain 1023 days ago
Many states are now adding fixed registration taxes for EVs, usually in the ballpark of $200/year. I pay this, and it costs significantly more than if I had paid gas tax on an ICE car of a similar weight for the miles I drive.

Also fun was that this remained full price during the year that my state suspended its gas tax for economic relief due to high gas prices.

Weight and mileage based taxation absolutely makes sense, since road damage increases with the 4th power of axle load. But matching those taxes to damage caused means heavy trucks will pay the vast majority of tax, since they do the vast majority of damage. This may be unpopular with Amazon.
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hibikir 1023 days ago
To add to this, the Missouri yearly tax is already higher than gas taxes for most vehicles, and it's legislated to go up 20% a year every year until 2026. Taxes high enough that the economic gains for electric are basically zero.
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xethos 1023 days ago
Arguably this is because gas taxes are too low, instead of the EV annual tax being too high.
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jewayne 1023 days ago
I hadn't heard this, but I'm not surprised. The right wing has essentially declared culture war on EVs. They will tax them out of existence, if they can.
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fodkodrasz 1023 days ago
In the EU the excise tax on petrol is minimum €0.36 per liter!

That gives 200 USD -> 183 € -> 508 liter -> 134 gallon.

My fairly outdated small but somewhat sporty car with high consumption (9l/100km rounded up) would go 5600 kms from that. Here EVs have to pay no excise and no parking fees and no yearly engine-power based taxes for their cars, while ICEs must, based on age, environmental category and engine power...

Compared to that you still pay some taxes, still that amount is negligible to the taxes some pay for ordinary ICE cars.

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stetrain 1023 days ago
Here the combined state + federal gas tax is $0.47 per gallon.

A gas BMW 3 series actually has a very similar curb weight to a Tesla Model 3, around 4,000lb.

At 30mpg, $200 worth of gas tax would buy 425gal of gas and take me ~12,700mi. I usually driver under 8,000mi per year.

It's definitely not crazy, but strange that it is costing more than our gas tax.

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