Our state gub'mint. So they want to encourage everyone to get an E.V. Today's Ledger: Ya buy one and ya get a credit,

[3Hotdogs]

up to $4k if you're an impoverished senior. So you buy the car.


Then ya go to register it. WHAT DA FUCK? There's $250 a year tacked on to the registration fee to pay for highway maintenance. This discourages E.V. purchases.

It's like me, working for a Happy Ending, trying to switch hands, without missing a stroke. (I'm still working on it).

[Voltaire2]

1. You got a $7500 federal tax credit, and a $4000 state credit.

Yes it is stupid that they are sticking a $250/yr road use tax on your registration, we really do need to stop using ICE vehicles, but states have to maintain roads and that is massively expensive.

It will be 16 years before the road use tax equals your state credit.

[Think. Again.]

5. And that $250 is in place of the road tax EV drivers DON'T pay at the gas pump.

[Squaredeal]

2. Im a senior in NJ and would love to have an EV.

Thanks for telling me about this. Ill check it out.
I drive very little but a yearly $250 surcharge wont hurt me and Ill have a new car that requires little maintenance over the life of the vehicle, and I wont be beholden to the fluctuations in the price of gas.

[3Hotdogs]

4. The point is, it's like two sides, working against the middle.

[Think. Again.]

6. That road use tax would be paid on the gas price at the pump if you drive gas car.

...so there is no ADDITIONAL tax involved.

[Voltaire2]

9. well there might be.

The gas tax approximates actual road use. The EV tax doesn't. So it really depends on how much you use your ev, and really it ought to be a mileage tax not a fixed rate.

[Think. Again.]

10. I agree...

Removing the road tax that is added to gasoline and installing a mileage tax equally on all cars would be a more accurate and fair way of billing drivers for road use.

However, that would unfortunately slow the transition away from CO2 emmissions because a lot of people are more concerned about their personal, individual expenses than they are about our shared ecological systems.

[arlyellowdog]

3. There is a was to reduce usage tax in Virginia

The Virginia DMV has a device that attaches to your odometer so you only pay on miles you use. Perhaps that option is available in NJ.

[Think. Again.]

7. That makes sense, most new cars have GPS systems that could figure that out.

[70sEraVet]

8. Wow! $12,500 toward buying a new Electric vehicle!

Yeah, the extra $250 tacked onto the registration fee is a little sucky. But I wouldn't lose sleep over it.
Every time I'm somewhere talking with someone, and I can't hear them because somebody's loud-ass truck goes by, I think, "Come on, Joe! Do what Repubs say you're gonna do, and make everybody give up their gas vehicles!"

[Think. Again.]

11. The $250 is counteracted by the lack of gasoline tax that EV drivers don't pay.

[70sEraVet]

13. I understand that.

But human nature, being what it is, we gripe when we see it in an annual bill -- where, otherwise, we never thought about the tax added at the gas pumps.

[Think. Again.]

12. Or a least enforce muffler noise level regulations.