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The incentives are to encourage adoption, if that happened, they should go away. As for the increased registration it needs to both offset the gas taxes and acc
by ryathal 3y ago
The incentives are to encourage adoption, if that happened, they should go away. As for the increased registration it needs to both offset the gas taxes and account for increased road damage.
- evanelias 3y agoYes, ostensibly the extra registration fee is supposed to go to improving the roads. But in NJ, ICE pickup trucks outnumber EVs, and they weigh more than EVs, causing more road damage than EVs. So why don't they have an even larger increased registration fee? One of the sponsors of the bill (that increased the EV registration fee in order to fund roads) is a state senator who is also the COO of a major roadwork construction company. He's also simultaneously the mayor of a 10,000 population town with only a couple public chargers. Way more trucks than EVs in his town btw.