The price of electric car batteries has dropped 89% in 10 years

[Finishline42]

7. It's a good point

And has to be addressed at some point as EV's become a higher percentage of vehicles sold.

There have been talk to using GPS to track your mileage and charge base on that, but not sure I want to give permission for the govt to track everywhere I go. LOL

The gas tax is a bit of a blunt instrument to fund the building of our roads and bridges. Kind of unfair to add hybrids to the list vs a non hybrid that gets 40 mpg. And there's also no accounting for vehicle weight - which is the #1 issue on wear and tear on roads. Most of our smallest cars come in at just over 2,000 lbs. Heaviest at over 5,000 lbs.

Some baseline math on gas taxes.

Driving 15,000 miles per year. 20 mpg = 600 gal of gas. State gas tax per gallon ranges from $.1466 in Alaska to $.612 in CA If you use $.3 as a median that amounts to $180 per year plus $.184 Federal = $110

We could self report mileage but that would require the govt to keep track of the mileage when you bought your car and then when/if you sell it. If you under reported mileage, you would have to pay the difference at time of transfer.

What about a 10,000 pound delivery van that's an EV?