Trump nominee says Boeing needs 'tough love,' EVs should pay for road use

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2. Have no problem paying my share to drive an EV but tell me how it's going to work.

IMO, it has to be a formula based on weight and number of miles driven.

In the old days when most every car got around 15 to 20 MPG, having a tax per gallon of fuel made sense, but not anymore.

Some states have added a yearly fee for hybrids (which makes absolutely no sense because if a small car gets 40 mpg and a hybrid gets 35 mpg, why tax the hybrid??? Out of spite of course).

My idea would be to declare every year how many miles you drove and based on a study by, say, 5 engineering schools, have 5 different weight classes on the wear and tear your vehicle produces, and that generates the tax. Now what about those that claim 10,000 miles on their Suburban when it was actually 40,000? When they transfer the vehicle they would have to pay the difference between claimed and actual mileage.