EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
So much wheel spinning on EVs, what if they are not the right path forward? The biggest problem with renewable power and EVs is storage, the second is storage, and the third is storage. Another pat...
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Got a little long winded there to no avail scooby….so I’ll help you out.
Less than 1/3 of states have any sort of passenger vehicle inspections. Less than 1/5 of states have statewide emissions testing (another potential spot to nab mileages) and some of them are the same states as those w/inspections. So for that method, over 2/3 of states would have to reinstate or develop another state funded program.
Record mileage at registration intervals? Ok, except that’s not already a thing and there are countless vehicles that are odometer exempt.
So that leaves either a tracking device required for every vehicle on the road or an honor system. Lol at the cost complexity and personal privacy invasion of the former and double lol at the latter option.
Now let’s talk about what the per mile rate would be? Will it be calculated individually for each different individual vehicle? Or will those with fuel efficient vehicles be overcharged like those that don’t that don’t drive a lot in your scenarios.
And all this and have only touched on in state passenger vehicles.
Now add the complexity of interstate travel. Instantly it takes the states out of the equation and makes it something that can only be federally administered…which aside from its own pitfalls of the feds botching the solution even worse and at more cost than individual states, many states would need significant administrative changes to their entire tax structure.
And haven’t even touched on commercial vehicles or all kinds….
Besides, I thought ICE powered vehicles were going the way of the dodo bird?? Are they not?
Why revamp a large governmental program for something that is going to yield little ROI? I mean the govt does that c rap all the time but no need to create another black hole to throw tax payer dollars into…
Less than 1/3 of states have any sort of passenger vehicle inspections. Less than 1/5 of states have statewide emissions testing (another potential spot to nab mileages) and some of them are the same states as those w/inspections. So for that method, over 2/3 of states would have to reinstate or develop another state funded program.
Record mileage at registration intervals? Ok, except that’s not already a thing and there are countless vehicles that are odometer exempt.
So that leaves either a tracking device required for every vehicle on the road or an honor system. Lol at the cost complexity and personal privacy invasion of the former and double lol at the latter option.
Now let’s talk about what the per mile rate would be? Will it be calculated individually for each different individual vehicle? Or will those with fuel efficient vehicles be overcharged like those that don’t that don’t drive a lot in your scenarios.
And all this and have only touched on in state passenger vehicles.
Now add the complexity of interstate travel. Instantly it takes the states out of the equation and makes it something that can only be federally administered…which aside from its own pitfalls of the feds botching the solution even worse and at more cost than individual states, many states would need significant administrative changes to their entire tax structure.
And haven’t even touched on commercial vehicles or all kinds….
Besides, I thought ICE powered vehicles were going the way of the dodo bird?? Are they not?
Why revamp a large governmental program for something that is going to yield little ROI? I mean the govt does that c rap all the time but no need to create another black hole to throw tax payer dollars into…
