Republicans want to tax EV drivers $200/year in new transport bill

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/04/republicans-want-to-tax-ev-drivers-200-year-in-new-transport-bill/

by tzs • 1 year ago

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billy99k• 1 year ago

Democrats also added a tax for anyone with solar panels and wanted to tax ev drivers to fund the roads (because they are paying less of a gas tax).

essive• 1 year ago

Couple of references for road funding ev tax: - https://slate.com/business/2021/03/vmt-tax-buttigieg-driving... - https://www.nwnewsnetwork.org/transportation/2023-02-22/demo...

platevoltage3• 1 year ago

We obviously need to do this at some point. Now isn't the time IMO.

philipallstar• 1 year ago

This is that state capture by Tesla I've heard about.

bhandziuk• 1 year ago

I already pay $220 /yr to register my EV in Georgia. That's far more than I would pay if I were driving an ICE car. Does this mean that I'd have to pay $420 /yr if this passed?

p0w3n3d• 1 year ago

It's always the same, and it had to be like that.

1. Subsidy, give freebies, special privileges (in Poland we have ev cars allowed to drive Bus lanes)

2. Once the market has been saturated, revoke slowly privileges

3. Later move on to normal requirements/taxes/payments - BAU

(Roads won't fund themselves)

platevoltage3• 1 year ago

I agree. If EV's ever become ubiquitous in the US, these benefits would need to go away.

We aren't even close to that here. Republicans have turned electric vehicles into a political issue. That being said, it does make me a bit mad watching someone in a brand new Tesla zoom past me in the HOV lane while I'm stuck in traffic in my '86 Mercedes that I've kept running all these years, burned mostly renewable diesel in (previously waste vegetable oil), and have caused way less emissions given that it was manufactured when I was 3 years old, and not replaced every several years like a typical car is.

testysting342• 1 year ago

An EV passing by me in a city won't harm me or my children's health.

You with your 86 diesel mercedes manufactured long before emission limits will definitely hurt much much more.

Noxes from that would probably get me swearing at you instantly...

Republicans want to tax EV drivers $200/year in new transport bill

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