Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

Minnesota’s highway revenues are derived from three sources: the gas tax, vehicle registration fee or tabs and the motor vehicle sales tax. These funding sources support construction and maintenance of the highway system. People interviewed included knowledgeable transportation experts as well as the general public.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

There are also unanswered questions about how to even finance electrification or road construction and maintenance given lost revenues from fuels taxes, Foss said. Thus, the success of EVs, much less anything else in the energy transition hopper, cannot be divorced from the geopolitics of the day.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2017

Ryder has an established North American maintenance and fueling network with approximately 800 maintenance facilities including 440 diesel fueling stations. —Debbie Raphael, Director of San Francisco’s Department of the Environment.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2010

users pay for the construction and maintenance of roads via a federal fuel tax. Revenues from the tax go into the federal Highway Trust Fund, which is independent of the General Fund; every five years or so Congress passes an authorization bill to allocate these revenues. States use similar mechanisms. —Huang et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2018

ZEVs require significantly less time and money spent on maintenance because they have only about 20 moving parts – about 1,800 fewer moving parts than traditional ICE vehicles. The growth of ZEVs represents a potential drain on motor vehicle fuel taxes, which could affect state transportation revenue.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2012

Since some 36% of diesel is used off-road, such as on farms, by manufacturing, industrial and commercial ventures, and boats, a fuel tax for road use would impose an unfair burden onto these sectors, the government says.). In New Zealand, diesel and electric-powered vehicles pay for their road use through road user charges.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2010

transportation, and ensure state fuel taxes can support all transportation modes. Efforts should shift from building highway networks to building other forms of transportation that are cleaner, more efficient, and in high demand. States should seek to bring greater balance to their transportation investment plans.

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Blink Charging

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Taxing charging revenue The federal government and many states currently tax sales of gasoline and diesel to fund “related government services like road construction, maintenance, repair, and public transportation.” In Pennsylvania , there is an existing alternative fuel tax in effect.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2009

Currently, the US Highway Trust Fund supports the construction, repair and maintenance of highways. The Fund is replenished by revenue collected from motor fuel taxes. Source: DOT. Click to enlarge. The Highway Trust Fund. The Fund has been struggling for years, ending the fiscal year with less money than it started.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2009

We’re not sure how much maintenance cost you are going to incur and quite frankly you many need to replace the battery pack after 3-4 years and it may cost between $3,000-$5,000. fuel tax); and there needs to be assurances regarding OEM viability—all of which may involve government action.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2021

These policy strategies are grouped into the following categories: Built environment and land use changes: Prioritize maintenance and avoid or cease new road building or road expansion. Transportation pricing: Gasoline taxes. Shift to VMT-based road fees as the number of ZEVs grows and fuel tax revenues decline.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

In the meantime, EV buyers’ sticker shock could be alleviated by the knowledge that fuel and maintenance costs are far lower for EVs and that total ownership costs are about the same. estimates that by 2030 the deployment of EVs could cut global receipts from fossil-fuel taxes by around US $55 billion. passenger vehicles.

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