When I got my tags last year they didn’t charge me the extra fee here in Ohio, and just mailed my renewal in that didn’t have the extra fee on it. Not sure if they don’t realize it’s a hybrid or not. Didn’t feel like correcting their mistake
Florida is a huge state. Not everyone is affected by hurricanes every year. We’ve had our share up here in the panhandle, but we may go years before one strikes.
But is it? What if you live in a border city and do most of your driving in another state? You are paying Georgia the tax money to tear up Tennessee's roads, for example. At least with a gas tax the assumption is you are paying the tax near where you just tore up the pavement.
Nice! Yeah I was fully expecting to get hammered when I switched for the model 3 and the guy was like, nope you're good to go man (probably the first person to ever have a positive BMV experience).
You’re basically right, but the link you posted says slightly different than what you say. It calls for a $0.03 per kilowatt hour tax on public electric vehicle chargers, a $120 annual fee for electric vehicles, and a $60 annual fee for non-plug in hybrids like the Maverick. The new tax will start on January 1, 2024. And of course, this is for Kentucky only.
That is a sensible approach but in the end the tax needs to be fair with enough $$ being raised. So perhaps a fair approach would be a milage tax with adjustment for weight/sq inch of road contact. The current gas tax has become unfair and intertwined economically. I am reluctant to support milage tax due to most likely collected annually which would be an increase in registration fees. In Texas annual registration fees are such that they would increase but would be somewhat bearable. In some states that collect property tax on vehicles the $$ amount of annual license renewal could be considered an undue hardship! Perhaps we need to place a chip in each electric vehicle which could then report amount of current vehicle used. (Could be a "toll tag charge"?)
Some insurance companies are already putting chips, or monitoring devices in vehicles to record speeds driven and other info to charge rates accordingly. I assume that they could also record miles driven, if they don't already. They may already be in some of the newer vehicles, but that's another thread.
True, but what about those that only drive 1000 miles a year, like spouses who don't work and only go to grocery store, college kids who stay on campus, retirees that live on a fixed income and don't drive that often, etc... It's unfair to them. There's a lot of people that don't drive that much. I know it's un popular but a mileage tax is the most fair. Just has to be worked out somehow.
