Many states require a bi-yearly smog or safety check for vehicles, in many cases the ODO reading is recorded at the time of test. For insurance purpose, you also need to issue the mileage when insuring the vehicle since premium fees are based on declared usage (miles per year). So, it is not uncommon to pay based on usage, the whole reason why the fuel was taxed, to account for the amount of use. With EV it becomes harder to distinguish between home and vehicular use - similar to the problem with home heating oil being essentially diesel and also farm use diesel being off-road, so untaxed and some creative folks running that in their cars, so color additives to the fuel allow detection of non-road (untaxed) fuel in on-road vehicles. Tagging electricity is a little harder if you can plug into any outlet in the home to refuel your car. So, they try to tag onto something that is already in place, to levy taxes for the maintenance and construction of the freeways (all other roads get overwhelmingly funded via property taxes, whether you own a car or not, whether you drive or not - you pay for the roads in your town.) Other countries have tried various things, from paying for certain stretches of road (similar to toll) or per mile driven - the "gas tax" is still one of the best ways to put the burden where the pollution (=part of the cost) is generated, otherwise it becomes unequal between gas guzzlers and sippers, but that is a whole political process, so I think we should avoid that. Lets just say that miles driven can be recorded with existing means (ODOmeter) and thus there is a basis for a pay-for-how-far-you-drive
Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless office +1 408 383 7626 Skype: cor_van_de_water XoIP +31 87 784 1130 private: cvandewater.info www.proxim.com This email message (including any attachments) contains confidential and proprietary information of Proxim Wireless Corporation. If you received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of Paul Dove via EV Sent: Friday, May 29, 2015 4:20 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] Design News: Why Aren't Electrical Cars Sales Better?It's the battery. Seems impossible to monitor how can they know how far I drove? They will have to make it a blanket fee that's added to your tag to work I believe Sent from my iPhone > On May 27, 2015, at 10:52 AM, Al Lumas via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > The savings in fuel cost will diminish if / when States adopt a tax on each > mile you drive your electric vehicle. > To offset the drop in gas tax revenue due to EV's one State (Oregon) has > already adopted such a tax (1.5 cents per mile) and other's are considering > it. > Al > > At 08:30 AM 5/27/2015, Michael Ross via EV wrote: >> You didn't account for the roughly 75% reduction in fuel cost to own an EV. >> If you compare to a small good quality ICE getting 30mpg, over its life the >> EV may save you $15k, $20k more if you drive a lot and the the cost of >> fuel rises. > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
