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Is A Tax On Electricity (kWh) Consumed The Best Way to Supplement the Fuel Tax for Electric Vehicles?

EV Adoption

To address those issues, states must consider adjusting the existing fuel tax rate to account for greater efficiency and fewer miles traveled. There continues to be a shift towards consumers buying trucks and large SUVs and now combined with electric vehicles having large and heavy batteries. Because a mileage tax would be post-paid.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

30 mpg is nice, but it took them 20 years to get there, while the Hondas and Toyotas of the world have been quietly churning out great cars that great mileage for years, not to mention every GM vehicle Ive owned is a pile of garbage, including my current one. Ill never purchase one again, no matter what the mpgs. thats right.

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