[toomuchtodo]

We’re incentivizing business capital investments. Certainly, it’s not always efficient (Hummers that used this tax treatment), but that is the intent. It would be more optimal if trucks didn’t keep getting bigger, but trucks are still needed for work purposes.

[solardev]

Then why not just incentivize work vehicles, be they large trucks or electric sedans?

[travisb]

The reason was to avoid tax advantaging sports cars or luxury sedans for executives. At the time SUVs were utilitarian and unfashionable so dividing by weight seemed an easy way to distinguish between "real" work vehicles and "fake" work vehicles.

Of course it backfired so now 6500 pound SUVs (and even luxury sedans!) are easily acquired.

[toomuchtodo]

Because that is not the criteria codified in statute.

[solardev]

Seems like a tautology

[dymk]

That’s called incentivizing large vehicles