Electric Vehicles? Towing? Hauling?

rk911 wrote:

JRscooby wrote:

zcookiemonstar wrote:
The other question is once so many people are driving EV's there is a lot less tax money that is part of the cost of ever gallon of gas or diesel. So how do you now get that tax money to pay for road work that should be paid for by the people driving on the roads? You can't just raise the taxes on electric that would not be fair to people who do not drive. Now the more you drive the more fuel you use so the more you pay in taxes. There is already complaints about the tax revenue from fuel going down because of more fuel efficient vehicles.

As I stated before, tax the EVs by the mile, or even better, all vehicles by the mile.

how do you see that being accomplished? self-reporting? some sort of tamper proof aux odometer that either reports to the state automatically or read by a state employee? what about out-of-state travel? should that be deducted?

Well, like I said before trucking companies have for decades been required to report miles driven in each state. If the penalties are high enough for miss reporting it would work. Many states require all vehicles to have a safety inspection every year or 2. I bet every one of the inspections the mileage is recorded. Not much of a problem for the state to compare that to what the owner reported. Not enough tax paid? Pick up the car. Owner pay tax, plus penalty, prove why you don't owe, (like miles and tax in another state) or the car is sold by state at auction.