EV owners do not pay gas taxes. Therefore, many states are charging them.

Owners of electric cars in Vermont recently received some bad news from the department of motor vehicles. Starting from January 1, they have to pay $ 178 per year to register their cars, double the owners of internal combustion engine vehicles.
In levying high fees, wormont became the latest state to pay premiums for electric driving. According to the National Assembly of the National Assembly, at least 39 states charge such annual fees including $ 50 in Hawaii and $ 200 in Texas. This is not from any states a few years ago.
Now, as President Trump withdrew the measures of Biden administration to promote electric vehicles, considering imposing a national fee to increase the funds used to fund Republican roads and bridges in Congress Are, a fund that is in a strict shape.
Fees are an attempt to decline revenue from gasoline taxes that do not pay for electric cars, clear reasons. They are an example of how governments are struggling to accommodate technical upheaval in the auto industry.
Environmentalists and consumer groups agree that electric vehicle owners should help pay for road maintenance and construction. But they worry that the Republicans, which control the Congress, will determine the fees at a very high level to punish the electric vehicle owners, which are liberal.
This has already occurred in Texas and other states, Chris Harto, a senior policy analyst of the consumer report, said that the focus on transport and energy has been focused.
“EV owners should contribute to pay for the roads they use,” he said. But, he said, “In some cases, state fees are implemented which are very punitive for EV drivers, much higher than paying the owner of the gas vehicle.”
Mr. Harto and others said that flat fees are also inappropriate for low -income drivers or even those who do not drive too much, making it difficult for them to buy cars that reduce cars, Mr. Harto and others Said. Federal and state gasoline and diesel taxes are levied per gallon, so that those who drive more – or their own gas Gujler – automatically pay more.
The main reason for the decline in revenue from fuel taxes is that internal combustion engines have become very efficient, while political leaders have been reluctant to increase fuel taxes to maintain with inflation.
Since 1993, there has not been an increase in federal gasoline tax of 18.4 cents per gallon. The Highway Trust Fund, which finances transport projects from that tax income, can be bankrupt without new sources of funding by 2027, analysts say. A list of taxes and spending policies that are considering Republican in the Congress include levy on electric vehicles to help re -fill the highway trust funds.
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, according to an industry group, has 5.4 million electric vehicles on the US roads. But this is about 2 percent of the total and is not the main reason for revenue intervals.
“MPs are getting a convenient sacrifice goat, and punishing the cleanest vehicles on the road, ignoring the real cause of the shortage,” said Max Bomehefner, director of the electric vehicle Infrastructure at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the most clean vehicles on the road. “
Some of the highest electric vehicle fees are in states that usually choose Republicans such as Texas, Vyoming and Ohio, all charge $ 200 per year at the top of the regular registration fee.
Robert Nichols, a Republican state senator in Texas, sponsored a law -setting law in 2023, stating that the amount was determined by analyzing how much the average owner of the gasoline vehicle pays.
“This is not an anti-EV thing. We got Tesla here in Texas and we are very proud, “he said, referring to the electric car manufacturer, who has a factory in headquarters and Austin. “But everyone needs to pay for the road.”
Texas is one of the states made by consumer reports to overcharge electric vehicle drivers. The organization refers to Texas’s relatively low gas tax 20 cents per gallon, below the national average about 50 cents.
Mr. Nichols admitted that the legalists were reluctant to increase the tax on the drivers of gasoline cars. He said, “Nobody wants to his tomb: ‘Gas tax increased,” he said.
But rapid electric vehicle fee is not just a red state event. Washington, Who charges $ 150It is progressive like any blue state. In Vermont, MPs passed a fee law last year as they were worried that the increasing number of electric vehicles took a risk for the state’s finance, said State Policy Director Patrick Murfee at the Vermont Agency of Transportation.
“The legislators admitted that we are near the tipping point where EV adoption has become the mainstream in Vermont,” he said.
Electric vehicles had 12 percent of the new car sales in Vermont last year, above 8 percent above the national average. Mr. Murphy said that fees collected from electric vehicle owners are prescribed for infrastructure such as chargers. At $ 89 a year from standard registration fee, the fee of the worm also is at the bottom of the charge of the states.
People from both sides of the debate agree that a fair system will charge the electric vehicle owners per miles. But it is complex to do so. Some state is experimenting with technology that tracks mileage and bill owners accordingly. But the systems are expensive and increase privacy issues.
A flat fee “is not correct,” Mr. Nichols, Texas MLA, accepted. “But it takes a big step forward. It is appropriate without installing a huge bureaucracy. ,
Some states including Iowa, Georgia and Kentki, Tax Electric Vehicle Chargers. But that system misses a lot of cars. Most people sometimes charge at home using public chargers.
According to the National Conference of State Legislative Assembly, which do not charge more than state high fees include Alaska, Arizona, New York and Massachusetts.
In 2026, Vermont has planned to be one of the first states to try to charge electric vehicle owners how much they drive.
This will be relatively easy in Vermont, Mr. Murphy said, as officers already collect odometer reading when owners bring their cars for annual safety check. This is not the case in many states.
Even a system that tracks mileage has flaws. This makes the owners to travel in other states, and does not collect revenue from out-of-set visitors.
Mr. Murphy said, “The full approach we have to keep things as simple as possible in the beginning, where all the vehicles are paying some for our infrastructure,” Mr. Murphy said, “And then the time This is a fair system to continuously develop with.
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