That focuses entirely on the carbon aspect on the vehicles, which has nothing to do with the gas tax or the proposed registration charge. It's about infrastructure repairs and upkeep. There is certainly a conversation to be had about carbon footprint but it's mostly immaterial to this discussion.

They would have to be in series, all in a straight line, because God help you if you ever have to take a corner on that thing. 

Unfortunately centrifugal clutches only work in one direction. No input, no bite so no way to use other motors or push start to get them going. Only way around that would be to tie all of them to one chain and hook that to a “normal” motorcycle gearbox. 

Turning radius measured in light-years.

Morons are gonna moron. I think the EV craze has come one battery generation too early (over-reliance on lithium, a single resource needed in massive quantities that is not easy or Earth-friendly to mine), but the thing already has inertia and there isn’t shit they can do to stop it. They need to just accept it like I…

thats why you have yearly inspections and mileage checks which the tax is calculated off

I mean, monthly charges would probably be easier for folks, especially ‘po-folks, to handle, but I would never advocate for monthly OD readings, and certainly never a GPS device. Annual OD readings is about the easiest and least intrusive way to make it fair for both groups.

That said, the moment a politician gets…

Eh forcing everyone to sub-meter those home chargers wouldn’t fly. It would only work with public meters, which are not used nearly as much as home chargers (for now). Charging yearly by milage and weight simplifies the tax revenue, makes it easier to keep up with inflation, and puts EVs and ice on a level playing…

That’s the whole point of the "weight and size" part of my comment. Bigger and heavier pay more.

A per mile by weight would be the most accurate method to charge for the wear and tear on the infrastructure, which was the entire point of the gas tax. It had nothing to do with efficiency. A hybrid full size SUV damages the road just as much as the less efficient traditional ice version. Infrastructure upkeep is…

Exactly, and encourage companies to actually develope EVs that are significantly lighter rather than focusing on range figures 

This is already a problem with the current gas tax. There is little or no impact.

The irony here is that the EVs are heavier than their ice counterparts, so they would actually pay more per mile than ice. And I like that.

Nope, there’s an easy, and non-intrusive way to handle that: odometer reading during registration. Each year you pay for the miles you’ve driven. When you sell your car, you get a bill in the mail for the miles driven that year before you sold it when the new owner registers it in their name. The only tricky bit is…

If only the options for a fun hatchback weren't so limited, and a fun wagon not a unicorn

Another good idea poorly executed. A better and more fair option would be to delete the gas tax and make both types pay a per-mile-driven tax based on weight and size. If you want to encourage ev adoption, keep the gas tax but call it a carbon tax and use those proceeds for healthcare.

Sure, just what we need. Slash the budget for the already crippled infrastructure repairs. That'll fix things

lol, touche. I guess it’s a good thing I don’t buy Fords then. That’s at least the third shit transmission I’ve seen in recent memory come out of them.

One of the many reasons I still buy manuals. If a shift is, shall we say, less than precise I only have myself to blame and not some computer that’s only doing what it was programmed to.