That being said, the top (carbon tax) and generation is the most overall better way to do it IMO, even if those utilities hate it.
i think i agree. good info on the tech, too.
np, it's fairly related to the whole power business.
To put a finer bow on the point, I can totally see why/how you are going to have to make up for this as electric car adoption continues, as gas tax is basically how states and the federal government funds infrastructure projects.
Like I found this:
https://taxfoundation.org/state-gas-tax-rates-2020/Which while not a perfect tax rate, does show how much of that "$3 gallon of gas" truly is made up of revenue to the state. Not saying there is not some of that sort of built in from the utilities electrically, it's just no where near it.
I for example, on normal charging of my car pay roughly $0.11/kWh to charge up a 75kWh battery, that's a mere $8.25 to "fill up" my car to go 300 miles. It is as of right now a giant advantage of owning an electric car, and since I take advantage of time of day, I charge after midnight and get charged closer to 0.05/kWh, which is a hilariously low $3.75 if I did a full charge. All of that skirts around the gas tax.
Like I said, the car keeps track of the energy it takes in (after all it has to manage it) so it "knows" how much it pulls, if you let's say charged a 40% fee on top of that (non uncommon based on the link I put) you could "make up" for a lot of the lost revenue, and more go straight to people who own electric cars.
Or you do the carbon tax, which since everyone uses the grid, would fall on the utilities, and they'll just push it down to the customers to pay, so your true usage will come out in the wash. Many ways to skin a cat, but I think something that will have to happen.
Also, as a last point to the whole mileage one, if you can report kWh with a car, you most certainly can just do that automatically with the mileage, which honestly be way freaking easier if you just demand it be installed in cars after a certain date and go from there (and then of course retro do it as you can to cars with the capabilities) but I digress. I never though you'd have to ever self report anything, though of course if you felt the report and your odometer were not in sync you could of course challenge it (if there was some glitch for example).
