[bjrosen]

Washington is really screwing EV drivers. $150 is the Washington gas tax on 300 gallons which is over 12,000 miles in a Volt. I've never driven more than 10,000 miles in a year and only 52% of my miles are electric so if I lived in Washington they would be overcharging me by 240% as much as an ICE driver. I thought Washington was a green state, apparently not.

 

[bjrosen]

Excellent description of the Washington EV ripoff bjrosen. And further, at my Volt's current 94mpg lifetime mileage, I'd have to drive over 28000 miles to burn up 300 gallons of gas. Many of us poorer folks have waited to buy a nice used Volt as I did. No sales tax exemption on used cars. That $150 fee alone probably makes it more economical to drive a Prius. But I love my Volt, and its not the car's fault that these fees have been enacted. Washington is wanting to move to a miles-based fee system, or a mixture of that and gross weight. Meanwhile, the dollars fly out of the wallet.

The gas tax is a pretty good approximation of a miles and weight system, the weight of a vehicle is a significant contributor to it's MPG. A miles and weight system for EVs is trivial to implement and it would be fair. The EV miles are already reported to OnStar, if VoltStats can read it then a State could also. The State already knows how heavy your vehicle is because you told them what model car it is when you registered it.