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White House threatens to veto anti-EV bill just passed by US House (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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White House threatens to veto anti-EV bill just passed by US House::The bill would prevent the EPA from enforcing tougher new pollution standards.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The US could compensate by people driving less of the unnecessarily large vehicles.

Yeah, that will never happen.

Make road taxes based on weight.

I'm 100% on board with this. But we'll never see it happen. And regardless, in this context that means that ICE vehicles on average would be taxed less. Proves the point that there is an additional cost that people don't actually ever acknowledge with BEVs.

to leave 2/3 of the batteries in my garage and only install them when I want to visit grandma it would be great and save a lot of weight.

Then you'd be paying much higher taxes for something you're not actually leveraging. Normal people will basically never do this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Well flat vehicle taxing based on weight, ICE engines are taxed additionally by tax on fuel. Not all taxation needs to/should happen in a single space.

If the US raises gas prices the desire to drive gas guzzling pickups and SUVs will automatically lower (I hope).

And about paying taxes for something im not leveraging.. depending on the tax burden and possible energy saving based on reduced weight I don't know. It might just be fully impractical as a system that allows for easy swap in and out of batteries might add so much weight and complexity it makes the whole exercise pointless anyway.

I'm mostly just hoping on improvements in battery tech in general. That aging EVs can be equipped with newer batteries with higher power density.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well flat vehicle taxing based on weight, ICE engines are taxed additionally by tax on fuel. Not all taxation needs to/should happen in a single space.

Considering that the point of gas taxes ARE to obtain funding to repair roads... Transitioning to weight/travelled distance based registration taxes would mean that you want to double tax ICE vehicles to obtain those funds. That would be a bit silly to do...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'd probably just raise the gas taxes and inroduce the new taxes for EV's