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Originally Posted by Dumpling
I will point out that EV will probably lead to GPS miles tracked per vehicle as more and more states realize they're losing fuel taxes based on (sort of) miles driven between fillups. I believe Oregon and/or Washington already have designs for such options.
And then there's the problem of people of running extension cords from 2nd story balconies, and over fences, and across sidewalks..because most people don't live in gated communities with separate 6 car garages...
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All states will have to come to grips that road taxes collected on petrol will not support the street/highway infrastructure. Nevada started collecting "miles driven" I think about 5 years ago (I know all of my emissions tests now have it, and we get emissions annually). I'm sure they're thinking of how to change to a usage model. The problem will be how to do it fairly. For example, we drive only a few miles a day here in Vegas, and the bulk of our miles driven are going to/from Colorado so most of the miles are actually clocked in Utah and Colorado. Now maybe if everyone collects it all in their home state and everyone travels then it averages out, but if you recall many states had the "inspection" stations for trucks (and many still do and equally many sit on the side of the freeway abandoned). They weren't really looking for safety, they were clocking your miles when you entered the state and when you left and how much fuel you bought while inside and the truck firm got a bill for "use". It could come back to that. I almost expect to see "toll" type sensors at each state/locality boundary that collects road taxes. Or maybe all the highways become toll roads.
Cars could also collect the GPS location of charging and similarly report power usage and the tax woudl be on power. (just like gas isn't based on miles but gallons.)
It's complicated but the current infrastructure is basically the early days of auto diesel until it became a big enough deal to collect the taxes - they will figure it out.