It's about time that electric vehicle owners were forced to pay a per-km road user charge

@zonavar68 i havent done a cost analysis on every state or country. I use the charger in my building for which i pay $0.25 per kwh, which depending on time of day is about 3X what it cost me when i had my charger in my own home and paid directly to the power company. Even with this markup, my cost is 2/3 what gas would cost. There is essentially no maintenance, no oil changes, no spark plugs, etc. More important, i put no pollution into the air, which means fewer people suffer from pollution-related ill m esses saving lots of cost for medical care, to say nothing about global warming. .

@samueltyler2 The 'pollution' with EV's occurs elsewhere, including more tyre wear as they're heavier than equivalent non-EV's. I'm not putting a case against EV's - just saying that a fair regime replaces a tax specific to one type of energy source and charges all types of vehicles using public roads the same way regardless of the energy source. That then also means a consumer gets to make a more valid decision of which type of energy source they want to invest in because all are treated equally from a govt tax/fee/charge perspective.

@zonavar68 you are only partly correct as to where the pollution occurs.

If fossil fuels are use to produce electricity then, yes that tends to pollute where those generators are. In the US many, if not most are located near low socioeconomic population bases. This is a social injustice, a serious problem i agree.

Clearly though the solution is to produce electricity without using polluting fossil fuels. Many countries are well ahead of the curve in that respect. There is no reason to not have solar panels on every roof, above parking lots, etc.

Flying over the Netherlands recently, there were such panels spread widely, there were also wind generators in many of the waterways. I know several people who have their homes completely self sufficient for electricity. They are actually paid to supply power to the grid. Many new EVs are being delivered with ed bidirectional charging essentially producing millions of charged batteries which can back up the grid when it is stressed.

Separating communities into smaller grids can protect from weather-caused downing of the larger grids.

Finally, in the US the most popular cars ICE and other, are heavy SUVs and vans, so they wear out their tires just as fast.