EV's should be taxed for the infrastructure they use, but people want more equity in driving? Emissions aside, then government needs to charge higher taxes for heavier vehicles. My compact sedan doesn't do near the wear and tear that huge personal use pickup trucks do on the roads. Undercharging for heavier/larger vehicles is incompatible for growing road usage. EV's will not curb vehicle usage; in fact, it might accelerate their use due to the social license they present. But EV pickups are at times just as heavy if not heavier than their ICE counterparts.
So, it would stand to reason that gas taxes should return (keeping them removed is more ideology than practicality), EV's should have a some element of tax applied at some point in the value chain, and people who choose to drive heavier vehicles should have their vehicle taxes augmented accordingly.
I love EVs, but frankly they do nothing to curb road-centric design in urban areas. We need to be moving away from that as much as possible for sustainability and curbing sprawl.
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