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Good question, I am not sure. I think my starting point would be to tax the charging stations electricity usage. If people charge at charging stations that us

Good question, I am not sure. I think my starting point would be to tax the charging stations electricity usage. If people charge at charging stations that use solar, then that would be tax free thus incentivizing the greater adoption of solar.

verdverm 5y ago
But how will the roads be maintained when no taxes are collected? The gas tax is nice because the more you drive, the more you use, the more you contribute. Another interesting aspect to work out is how to account for different vehicle weights due to the difference in wear they contribute per mile. Semis and other large vehicles are the primary contributor to road wear iirc
- LinuxBender 5y ago
  But how will the roads be maintained when no taxes are collected? You would tax the charging stations, much like the way the gas stations have a gas tax. I would also expect most semi's to have their own charging stations that could have a different tax. Also with charging stations you have the serial number of the car so you know how much it weighs. At a gasoline pump I can pay cash and you don't know what car fueled up.
  - verdverm 5y ago
    You said stations charged by solar would not have the tax. That was the questions context. Also most commuting would support at home charging only, so where are the taxes there? If there taxes at the station and that costs more, then you know people will charge at home where it is cheaper. Same might apply for Amazon delivery trucks, they would certainly optimize on that variable. So ii seems you need to know how much a vehicle travels and charge taxes based on that and some other variables. Alternatively expanding a wide spread tolling system seems like the lowest political cost.
    - LinuxBender 5y ago
      you know people will charge at home where it is cheaper That would be my hope. That should be all of our hopes. In reality, there will be a very small percentage doing this as charging via solar is slow and the solar setup to charge a car is not small. There will be nearly as many people using charging stations as those using gas stations, given the nature of how people heavily depend on their cars and how often they are in them. Taxing the charging stations would be a direct parallel to the process of charging gas stations and would keep tracking devices out of non EV vehicles that will be around long after non EV's stop being sold. I am personally not affected either way. I won't install a OBD3 transceiver in my vehicles and I can drive a tractor into town. I just had one behind me in the drive-through the other day. That might be less common in the cities.

verdverm 5y ago

But how will the roads be maintained when no taxes are collected? The gas tax is nice because the more you drive, the more you use, the more you contribute. Another interesting aspect to work out is how to account for different vehicle weights due to the difference in wear they contribute per mile. Semis and other large vehicles are the primary contributor to road wear iirc

LinuxBender 5y ago
But how will the roads be maintained when no taxes are collected? You would tax the charging stations, much like the way the gas stations have a gas tax. I would also expect most semi's to have their own charging stations that could have a different tax. Also with charging stations you have the serial number of the car so you know how much it weighs. At a gasoline pump I can pay cash and you don't know what car fueled up.
- verdverm 5y ago
  You said stations charged by solar would not have the tax. That was the questions context. Also most commuting would support at home charging only, so where are the taxes there? If there taxes at the station and that costs more, then you know people will charge at home where it is cheaper. Same might apply for Amazon delivery trucks, they would certainly optimize on that variable. So ii seems you need to know how much a vehicle travels and charge taxes based on that and some other variables. Alternatively expanding a wide spread tolling system seems like the lowest political cost.
  - LinuxBender 5y ago
    you know people will charge at home where it is cheaper That would be my hope. That should be all of our hopes. In reality, there will be a very small percentage doing this as charging via solar is slow and the solar setup to charge a car is not small. There will be nearly as many people using charging stations as those using gas stations, given the nature of how people heavily depend on their cars and how often they are in them. Taxing the charging stations would be a direct parallel to the process of charging gas stations and would keep tracking devices out of non EV vehicles that will be around long after non EV's stop being sold. I am personally not affected either way. I won't install a OBD3 transceiver in my vehicles and I can drive a tractor into town. I just had one behind me in the drive-through the other day. That might be less common in the cities.