EV owners of today and tomorrow

[Runner]

My gripe with EV's is that I pay $.30 a gallon for road use tax, EV's don't pay any road use. A survey done in June of 2024 46% of EV owners say that they will switch back to ICE because of the poor availability of chargers.

Shhhh. To deal with that they will start monitoring your driving and taxing you by the mile.....

 

[Grumpycat]

You spend hours per day on a talk forum babbling, believing you know more than anyone else.
Then tell me my time is worth nothing because I save a ton of money doing nearly all my own car/truck maintenance and repairs.
What an idiot .

You have no idea how fast I read and type.

 

[Grumpycat]

Most of these guys in the f150's see a gravel road as the extent of their off road experience.

I actually get into some extreme off road with my F550 service truck

What wiped out most of the ones I removed were a chunk of semi truck tire on the interstate. They weren't able to avoid it and it got kicked into that fiber plate.

Yes, I haven't deleted the fiber panel because it does protect things I'd rather not have rocks hitting.

Looked into an aluminum replacement some years ago but didn't follow through. Wanted one with an access door for the oil drain so I wouldn't have to remove a 4'x2' plate to change oil.

 

[Grumpycat]

My gripe with EV's is that I pay $.30 a gallon for road use tax, EV's don't pay any road use. A survey done in June of 2024 46% of EV owners say that they will switch back to ICE because of the poor availability of chargers.

Keep telling yourself that.

Alabama charges $204/year "EV Fee" in lieu of gas tax.

Or $104/year for you hybrid fans.

Vs $0.27/gallon in gas taxes. 755 gallons of gasoline pays $204 in gas taxes. At 30 MPG that is 22,650 miles. EVs are getting screwed.

In addition to the "extra cost" of an EV driving up the base license and property tax.

 

[Runner]

Keep telling yourself that.

Alabama charges $204/year "EV Fee" in lieu of gas tax.

Or $104/year for you hybrid fans.

Vs $0.27/gallon in gas taxes. 755 gallons of gasoline pays $204 in gas taxes. At 30 MPG that is 22,650 miles. EVs are getting screwed.

In addition to the "extra cost" of an EV driving up the base license and property tax.

Grumpy,
How do they extract that tax? Is it through license fee at the DMV or personal property tax or ??

 

[Grumpycat]

Grumpy,
How do they extract that tax? Is it through license fee at the DMV or personal property tax or ??

Paid on license plate renewal. It's one of the line item charges.

 

[WM75Guy]

My gripe with EV's is that I pay $.30 a gallon for road use tax, EV's don't pay any road use. A survey done in June of 2024 46% of EV owners say that they will switch back to ICE because of the poor availability of chargers.

Texas started charging a $200/yr registration fee for BEVs in 2023 to offset the gas tax.

https://www.txdmv.gov/sites/default...Electric_Vehicle_Registration_Fee_Release.pdf

 

[WinterDeere]

You should have seen the mess when we changed the ATF and Filter on the grand kids auto trans, didn't help the pan slipped even after tilting the pan draining and still having a couple bolts left in when that last bolt was pulled the pan slipped and about half ended up on the garage floor.

Kitty litter sure can be handy for things other than what a cat uses it for.

Amazingly the diff fluid changes we barely spilled any new or used 90 wt.

I used to braze a bung fitting into the side wall of the tranny pans on my hot rods and drag cars, so I could simply unscrew a plug and drain it like an oil pan, before dropping the pan to clean it out and swap filter or anything else that had me going in there. But probably not worth it on a daily driver, with recommended changes at 60k miles... the ATF change you just did might be the only one that happens on that vehicle during your ownership period.

 

[Grumpycat]

Texas started charging a $200/yr registration fee for BEVs in 2023 to offset the gas tax.

https://www.txdmv.gov/sites/default...Electric_Vehicle_Registration_Fee_Release.pdf

I count 34 states levying an outright EV fee (article claims 36):

EV drivers in 36 states pay a surplus of fees each year

Executive Summary Electric vehicle (EV) drivers are subject to a wide array of fees intended to mimic motor fuel taxes, including registration fees and charging taxes. At public charging stations, EV drivers may also pay sales taxes or an equivalent along with a tax on the electricity used...

www.atlasevhub.com

But that is OK, EV haters don't want to know this sort of thing so they don't even look before speaking.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]