How some states could be discouraging electric car ownership:
Consumer Reports
The gas tax is a source of funds used to pay for road improvements. However, CR notes that it’s not necessarily the primary source. In 2016 the report notes that state gas taxes accounted for less than 29 percent of state revenues that went to highway funding. The remainder is funded via registration fees, tolls, and other sources of tax revenue.
As it turned out, cooler heads prevailed and the so-called “EV tax” was reduced to a more sensible $100 on top of the also-increased annual $158 registration fee assessed for all cars. Not only that, but since these fees are based on registration, rather than miles driven , they tend to be especially punitive to those owning electric cars having shorter operating ranges that are only driven sparingly. What’s more, CR notes that since EVs make up such a small percentage of all vehicles on the road, the added revenue received by hiking up registration fees will still be negligible in the battle to rebuild bridges and patch pockmarked pavement.
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