Featured Illinois Bill Proposes $1000/ Year EV Registration

That's because it was never going to be $1000 in the first place. I'm honestly shocked at the sheer number of seemingly-naive people who aren't familiar with the very very old negotiating tactic of asking for way more than you want, and then dialing it back to make yourself seem reasonable.

 

Looks like NJ is finally doing something right.

Electrek: New Jersey aims for 330k registered zero-emission vehicles by 2025, looks to become an East Coast EV leader.

New Jersey aims for 330k registered zero-emission vehicles by 2025 - Electrek

 

Until it’s law it will bounce, Wisconsin’s fees moved 3 times then half the law isn’t enforced, now a year later they want to jack up fees again, makes me wish I could prepay 5 years of registrations to avoid the chaos for a little while.


Really Needs to be binary opposition to laws passed for the wrong reasons using very flawed logic

 

It went from $1000 extra to $100 extra. ICE cars are now $148 (up from $98). So EVs are $148 plus $100.

The gas tax is now $0.38. Compared to a 50 mpg Prius traveling 12K miles per year...that is 240 gallons or $91.
Not too out of line.

Mike

 

If you drive that many miles.

 

Areas without significant charging infrastructure have a lot of sub 5000 mile annual traveling EVs

Cars like This
https://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/detail/629052841/overview/

Are extremely common in the EV world.


What makes it worse are the areas with the worst weather that most need infrastructure usually have minimal to no infrastructure.

When surveyed EVs fall into an upside down bell curve distribution with a lot of very low mile units with a handful at the extreme high end

Using “average” to such a distribution penalizes many while giving a free pass to a few “extreme users”

I will stick with the
It’s not worth blaming road funding issues on a few thousand BEV sales, they shouldn’t be taxed outside California until major infrastructure changes occur

 

Gotta love the push the button twice for two messages feature

 

I was thinking how the Sable could easily do less that 5000 miles in year with our use.

 

I’ve been seeing more posts like this one (below)

Many normal EVs have significant enough limitations that people can and do have their decisions influenced by “fair” taxation, I saw it with several IMIEV owners after the Wisconsin tax passed and now am seeing coming from owners in other areas.