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In my state, I pay a special tax on my EV when I renew my license plates. It is based on fuel source. The point is to offset the lack of gas taxes I would be pa
by mbreese 2y ago
In my state, I pay a special tax on my EV when I renew my license plates. It is based on fuel source. The point is to offset the lack of gas taxes I would be paying. Or it might just be a disincentive to buy an EV, it’s hard to tell sometimes.
- brookst 2y agoAt some point we’ll switch to mileage taxes, which make more sense for infrastructure upkeep. Gas taxes were only ever a rough proxy for “how much do hou use roads and bridges.”
- pfannkuchen 2y agoHow do you track how far everyone drives to tax them correctly?
- AlgorithmicTime 2y ago[dead]
- KeplerBoy 2y agoThe same way we track how much electricity households use from the grid. By using a (smart) meter.
- brookst 2y agoThere are a bunch of technical solutions, from certified shops you stop by once a year to networked cars. Implementation is the easiest part of this change.
- xeromal 2y agoMany cars are already "smogged". Would be trivial to record their mileage year to year at the same time. Require a "smog" for EVs and record their mileage and maybe scan their BMS for any faults.
- toast0 2y agoRequire a mileage readout when renewing registration, and when sold.
- Aurornis 2y agoGas taxes are used to fund road work. The nice think about gas taxes is that they’re mostly proportional to the mileage driven and the weight of the vehicle, two factors that determine contribution to road wear. EVs tend to be heavy but not contribute at all to gas tax. A separate EV tax for road maintenance is reasonable.
- blululu 2y agoSort of but road erosion is to the fourth power of weight while fuel consumption is approximately linear with weight, so the tax is not exactly proportional to use.
- fisherjeff 2y agoDo you have a source for this? I wouldn’t be surprised if it were supralinear but that feels high to me. Like we have a short segment of road in my town that’s almost exclusively and regularly used by garbage trucks, which are ~10x the weight of a car. I don’t think the road gets repaved 10,000x more often than other roads though?
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- matthewmacleod 2y agoIt's even got its own Wikipedia page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
- fisherjeff 2y agoAha, 4th power of axle load - that makes more sense. Thanks!
- SECProto 2y agoNot all road structures are equal (it's easy to design a road to last 20 years before resurfacing almost regardless of the loads put on it, and the cost variances aren't that major). Temperature variations are a bigger limiter of life of a road, especially freeze-thaw cycles