1. Subsidy, give freebies, special privileges (in Poland we have ev cars allowed to drive Bus lanes)
2. Once the market has been saturated, revoke slowly privileges
3. Later move on to normal requirements/taxes/payments - BAU
(Roads won't fund themselves)
platevoltage · 27m ago
I agree. If EV's ever become ubiquitous in the US, these benefits would need to go away.
We aren't even close to that here. Republicans have turned electric vehicles into a political issue. That being said, it does make me a bit mad watching someone in a brand new Tesla zoom past me in the HOV lane while I'm stuck in traffic in my '86 Mercedes that I've kept running all these years, burned mostly renewable diesel in (previously waste vegetable oil), and have caused way less emissions given that it was manufactured when I was 3 years old, and not replaced every several years like a typical car is.
billy99k · 6h ago
Democrats also added a tax for anyone with solar panels and wanted to tax ev drivers to fund the roads (because they are paying less of a gas tax).
platevoltage · 25m ago
We obviously need to do this at some point. Now isn't the time IMO.
I already pay $220 /yr to register my EV in Georgia. That's far more than I would pay if I were driving an ICE car. Does this mean that I'd have to pay $420 /yr if this passed?
philipallstar · 4h ago
This is that state capture by Tesla I've heard about.
1. Subsidy, give freebies, special privileges (in Poland we have ev cars allowed to drive Bus lanes)
2. Once the market has been saturated, revoke slowly privileges
3. Later move on to normal requirements/taxes/payments - BAU
(Roads won't fund themselves)
We aren't even close to that here. Republicans have turned electric vehicles into a political issue. That being said, it does make me a bit mad watching someone in a brand new Tesla zoom past me in the HOV lane while I'm stuck in traffic in my '86 Mercedes that I've kept running all these years, burned mostly renewable diesel in (previously waste vegetable oil), and have caused way less emissions given that it was manufactured when I was 3 years old, and not replaced every several years like a typical car is.