Quote Originally Posted by Mike Henderson View Post
Rather than try to collect the taxes at the charging stations - since a lot of people charge at home by just plugging in the car (no external unit) - a better way would be to have the cars report their usage of kWh (if that's what you're going to use). The cars also all have GPS so you could have them report where the usage occurred and report that usage to the proper state. Each state could then bill you for your activity in their state.

I suspect all of the cars can report that data wirelessly but if they can't, it could be collected when you have service done on the car.

kWh usage is better than miles because it accounts for the weight/size of the vehicle, and how efficient the car is - which is similar to gas tax. A big ICE car uses more gas and a more efficient car uses less.

Mike
I covered the home charging idea of having the car report the kWh. If necessary, legislation could require all EVs to include that capability. Interesting that many are concerned that the fees collected go to the right state which doesn't happen now with gas taxes.