Washington DC plans to increase yearly vehicle license fees from $72 to $175 for vehicles over 3500lb. Owners of vehicles with weight over 5000lb would get hit with $250, and over 6000lb, $500.
The proposal is aimed at discouraging purchase of big SUVs and pickups, and compelling their owners to pay for the heavy vehicles' greater social costs (traffic injuries and deaths, road degredation). They seem to have forgotten that EV batteries add weight. This will raise license fees on almost all production EVs. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-26/a-new-way-to-curb-the- rise-of-oversized-pickups-and-suvs Shortcut: https://v.gd/Umr8Jm Mini Cooper SE Electric 3144lb - $72 Nissan Leaf 3538lb - $175 Tesla 3 SR Plus 3582lb - $175 Chevrolet Bolt 3589lb - $175 Hyundai Kona Electric 3715lb - $175 Kia Niro EV 3854lb - $175 Kia EV6 4023lb - $175 Ford Mustang Mach E 4394lb - $175 VW ID4 4559lb - $175 Tesla S LR 4561lb - $175 Tesla X LR 5185lb - $250 Ford F150 Lightning 6015lb - $500 GMC Hummer EV 9046lb - $500 David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Some people ask, "Why?" Others ask, "Why not?" Then later they say, "Oh." -- Found on the Net = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/sub/index.html CONFIG: http://lists.evdl.org/options.cgi/ev-evdl.org ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
