Calafornia Road Charge Options

[73-914]

Sounds like a great way for EV's to pay their fair share

[mepstein]

Taxing gasoline at a gas station makes sense. It’s the only place it’s dispensed. Electricity is a different ballgame. Many sources, many uses, tracking only electricity for vehicle use will be difficult.

A gps in a vehicle, good luck with that. Especially older vehicles.

Ill be interested to see how it gets implemented. Either at the vehicle level or the power supply, it sounds like a challenge

[wonkipop]

Taxing gasoline at a gas station makes sense. It’s the only place it’s dispensed. Electricity is a different ballgame. Many sources, many uses, tracking only electricity for vehicle use will be difficult.

A gps in a vehicle, good luck with that. Especially older vehicles.

Ill be interested to see how it gets implemented. Either at the vehicle level or the power supply, it sounds like a challenge

it sure is a challenge to implement it.
add to that cocktail variable electricity pricing depending on peak or off peak pricing scenarios and it can't really be a simple percentage levy like fuel.

down here they settled on odometer declarations as the only feasible method.
of course that raises the notion of tampering. depending on the software in newer EVs it might be possible for them incorporate a provision to simply upload mileage automatically at intervals.

at present government seems to be walking a knife edge between incentivising EVs and disincentivising ICE. happy to do nothing. and still not enough EVs on road to make a significant percentage for it to be a real problem. but it is a free ride at the moment.
and given the condition of some of our roads down here and the failures around maintenance of roads, its staring to be a lightning rod.