Why Tesla's are bad at towing!

NJRVer wrote:

valhalla360 wrote:

time2roll wrote:

valhalla360 wrote:
Because they are taxing me to fund a rebate for you to buy one...you want to buy one, fine...if the company survives, great...but when you make me pay for it, I get say.

Really? What line on your 1040 relates to the EV surcharge?

BTW any tax credit to Tesla Buyers ENDS December 31, 2019.

Others beat me to it.

Even with the tax credit coming to an end (tesla is fighting to change and extend it)...in most areas, you pay no where near the fuel tax, which is intended to pay for the roads you drive on. There has been some move to increase registration fees but so far, it's not nearly as much as the gas tax collected.

So how much does a Tesla wear out and degrade the roads?

Any vehicle with weight will wear out and degrade roads. The heavier they are the more they degrade the roads. The damage a vehicle does is directly proportional to it's weight. This is the reason why many roads and bridges have weight limits. With Tesla's and other BEV's being heavier than average vehicles, they will be causing more damage than a comparable ICE yet paying less to repair that damage.

This is one of the challenges that the Tesla semi and other BEV semis will have to face. Since their batteries are so heavy, they will have to carry less in order to stay within legal limits which means more vehicles(and more road degradation) to carry the same load a ICE semi could. Weight is one of the main reasons why fuel cell semi's are being taken more seriously in the heavy duty truck market than BEV's.