Does Oregon give EV buyers
Does Oregon give EV buyers any kind of tax credit? If they do, why not just reduce that if they want some money back from EV owners? I assume Oregon uses car gas taxes for things other than roads like Mass. does, and like the feds use the fed gas tax . Like funding light rail budgets, airport budgets, and bicycle lanes. Too bad we can't put all the sales taxes on cars, sales taxes on car repairs, excise taxes, gas taxes, profits from RMV operations (half a billion in Mass last year), parking fees, tolls, and any new electric car taxes towards roads (and things having to with roads). We should use that money for what we pretend we use that money for. If we did that, taxing the couple thousand EVs per state wouldn't even be necessary.
That said, the simplest way in Mass to add any tax to any car is to simply have it be paid per mile when one has the car's annual "safety and emissions" inspection. The miles are already recorded then and the station owners could simply collect and send the money on just like they do with sales tax. Simple as pi.
Here is another idea. Have all the public and private chargers, not located in one’s home, collect a tax on EVs. If the charger is used between 9 pm and 4am (when the power stations are in surplus mode anyway), no fee. If you are charging during the day on either a public or a private charger, pay the fee. Users could avoid the fee by charging at home at night.
My preference would be to give the EVs a pass on the gas tax. Sorta stupid to give them $7500 fed tax credit, a state tax credit of a couple grand, then ask them for a few bucks a month back.