Comment by SJMG

7 months ago

While electric vehicles do cause more road wear, applying that tax to most consumer vehicles is the joke. Road wear is completely dominated by semi-trucks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law

The simplest method is to raise the HVUT, but we have so much data, we could assess miles driven * axel weight and charge a graduated fee based on that.

The WA state tabs on my Leaf which weighed less than Volvo station wagon were literally 4x higher because of EV taxes.