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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So we have a system that works perfectly from a pay per quantity used and pay per where you’re driving standpoint. One could say it’s a system that is on cruise control and requires no modifications if not for the pesky EVs paying their share. So why not concentrate efforts just on the EVs?
Well for one, the consumer subsidies and all the feel good nut rubbers giving each other reacharounds about how they’re saving the environment would have to cease, immediately.
But based on your suggested approaches that had little actual real world validity, an obvious choice would seem to be to tax consumer electricity rates higher and those that use more charging their cars pay more.
That nullifys the “feel good” free charging stations but if done soon, is easy since that is a very small part of installations. And I’m sure they could be modified to pay stations just like the commercial charging ports pretty easy.
But then those who have ICE powered vehicles still are being overtaxed, which is still the vast majority of vehicles…..
One thing we all agree on is it’s a connundrum that doesn’t seem to have an apparent easy singular fair solution.
Except maybe one. And it’s already started but it’s so watered down that it’s not actually viable. And that is an EV tax based on the size, expected lifetime power consumption of the vehicle.
But even that has its issues. Aside from making EVs even more prohibitively expensive to purchase new even if by the “rich folk” saving the world, resale will now have a lump increase which is harder to swallow the further you get down the personal income ladder.
So maybe JUST EVers could get the gps monitors and pay as you go with the home setups.
But that won’t happen. At least not in the near future. As if those folks ended up paying their fair share for “road use” it would make them less attractive to operate.
Well for one, the consumer subsidies and all the feel good nut rubbers giving each other reacharounds about how they’re saving the environment would have to cease, immediately.
But based on your suggested approaches that had little actual real world validity, an obvious choice would seem to be to tax consumer electricity rates higher and those that use more charging their cars pay more.
That nullifys the “feel good” free charging stations but if done soon, is easy since that is a very small part of installations. And I’m sure they could be modified to pay stations just like the commercial charging ports pretty easy.
But then those who have ICE powered vehicles still are being overtaxed, which is still the vast majority of vehicles…..
One thing we all agree on is it’s a connundrum that doesn’t seem to have an apparent easy singular fair solution.
Except maybe one. And it’s already started but it’s so watered down that it’s not actually viable. And that is an EV tax based on the size, expected lifetime power consumption of the vehicle.
But even that has its issues. Aside from making EVs even more prohibitively expensive to purchase new even if by the “rich folk” saving the world, resale will now have a lump increase which is harder to swallow the further you get down the personal income ladder.
So maybe JUST EVers could get the gps monitors and pay as you go with the home setups.
But that won’t happen. At least not in the near future. As if those folks ended up paying their fair share for “road use” it would make them less attractive to operate.
