Lawmakers have proposed yet another tax on EVs, attempting to balance road budgets solely on the back of the ~2% of vehicles that are responsible for a vanishingly small percentage of road damage.
Meanwhile, gas taxes haven’t gone up since 1993… and some are trying to eliminate them entirely, during a global fuel shortage that EVs are the solution to.
The bill includes a provision for an annual tax on electric vehicles, set at $130/year for fully electric vehicles and $35/year for plug-in hybrids. Those taxes also get an automatic annual increase of $5/year (thats 14% for the PHEVs and 4% for the BEVs), up to a cap of $150 and $50 each.