Sorry, but EVs *DO* cause damage to road surfaces and bridges, since EVs are relatively heavy for their size, so they typically are several hundreds of pounds heavier that the comparable sized ICE vehicle, unless the EV maker has *also* paid a lot of attention to the weight. The great benefits of EVs are particularly in absence of vehicle emissions and noise, as well as a diversion of the consumption of fossil fuels to (renewable) electricity, depending on the EV owner's installation of solar with the purchase of the EV or other action towards renewable energy, as well as the energy balance of the local grid, which typically gets cleaner every year unlike ICE vehicles. Reducing the need for fueling stations and the on-road supply network are secondary benefits. These days I see an increasing awareness that the only way to significantly improve our emissions problem is electrification - of our homes as well as transportation. Slapping "avoided gas taxes" on EVs does not help and is certainly a support move to keep the dinosaur alive a few months more, but there simply is no turning back, so those things will pass and I am sure that someone will challenge the excessive level of tax on EVs in some places, since it does not make sense to put avoided taxes as if it were a 15MPG 30,000 mi/y vehicle that is used by the family to cleanly drive around the city for less than 5k mi each year. Anyway, EVs are here to only only stay but proliferate and the oil industry already knows, but hey those are the same guys trying to sell you "clean coal". To go back to the original issue: vehicles do damage the road. I believe it is a 3rd or 4th order function of weight per wheel contact surface, so a 2x heavier vehicle does about 10 times more damage. Now you see that for road maintenance, it would be fair to only charge semis and other vehicles with thousands of pounds per wheel AND a lot of wheels, as typical small passenger vehicles do almost no damage to properly constructed road surfaces. Cor.
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 3:20 PM Mr. Sharkey via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > Oh yeah, a stroke of pure genius, that. > > Here in Oregon, EV's are nailed with double registration fees. > Additionally there is a "road fuel tax replacement" fee that > penalizes vehicles based on fuel economy, but not in the way that > you'd expect. Cars that get higher fuel mileage pay MORE in fees, > while those which consume more pay less. I guess the thinking is > that the poor truck and SUV owners are already paying more than their > share by way of gas pump taxes, so have pity on them. Needless to > say, EV's (and hybrids) pay the highest fees, in spite of causing the > least damage to road surfaces, bridges, etc. > > The whole world seems to have lost it's mind in the last few years, > so why not make everything insane, including torpedoing possible > solutions to pollution, climate effects, oil import dependence and common > sense? > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
