New registration fee for electric vehicles begins September 1, 2023

Texas Dept of Motor Vehicles ^ | July 25 2023 | Texas Dept of Motor Vehicles staff

[texas booster]

(AUSTIN, Texas – July 25, 2023) Owners of electric vehicles in Texas will soon pay an additional fee when registering their vehicle. Senate Bill 505, passed by the Texas Legislature during the 88th Regular Session, adds a $200 annual fee for electric vehicle registration renewals and a $400 fee at the time of new electric vehicle purchases for the initial two-year registration period.

The new fee will be collected on electric vehicle registrations processed on or after September 1, 2023, in addition to the standard vehicle registration fees and any tax due for the vehicle. Texans may renew their vehicle registration up to 90 days prior to expiration. The fee will not apply to hybrid vehicles.

Revenue collected from the fee will be deposited into the state highway fund to help pay for roadway construction and maintenance projects.

[texas booster]

EVs are not the low cost panacea that the lefties and MSM would have us believe.

As more EVs cram our roadways, less funds are available for the general upkeep of roads. All states (and the feds) decided long ago that users would pay a tax added to fuel, which is supposed to go to a highway fund.

In Texas it does go to the highway fund, which is mostly protected from political theft.

If your state does not yet have a special tax on EVs, well, it will soon.

[rktman]

DOH!

[dfwgator]

EVs are the means to destroy personal transportation. The first step is just to get the ICE vehicles off the road. Then they’ll go after the EVs.

[Sicon]

You will always get less of what you tax more.

I guess Texas is trying to discourage people from buying EVs. I applaud them for their efforts.

[cuban leaf]

My biggest concern about EV’s is that, even if I don’t own one, if they become popular enough to really impact the grid, I see my electricity costs go sky high.

[Midwesterner53]

Fees should have been even higher, pro rate them to the cost of the batteries.

[Starboard]

“EVs are not the low cost panacea that the lefties and MSM would have us believe.”

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Just imagine what the cost of maintenance and repairs will be whenever an EV has to go into the shop.

[BobL]

This is going to TOTALLY SET OFF the EV crowd in Texas and may even drive some of them back to California and Greenwich Village, thereby helping to clean up the ‘homeless’ problem in Austin.

[texas booster]

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A ping out to the Texas Ping list, founded by Windflier.

Yet another new tax on Texans, but at least this one is centered on a specific set of citizens - those who collected the $7,500 electric vehicle bonus from the feds.

Look for the MSM to cry about how unfair this is - while they all want to save the earth thought higher taxes, they didn't mean higher taxes on THEM!!

Another special Texas political edition for your perusal.

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Blessings, and stay cool!

[TexasGator]

“EVs are the means to destroy personal transportation. The first step is just to get the ICE vehicles off the road. Then they’ll go after the EVs.”

Huh?

[1Old Pro]

Owners of electric vehicles in Texas will soon pay an additional fee when registering their vehicle. Senate Bill 505, passed by the Texas Legislature during the 88th Regular Session, adds a $200 annual fee for electric vehicle registration renewals and a $400 fee at the time of new electric vehicle purchases for the initial two-year registration period.

I think they should charge a $20,000 annual fee, slackers.

[cuban leaf]

Well, they don’t pay gas tax, so their impact on the roads, especially with extra heavy vehicles, needs to be paid in some way.

[Carriage Hill]

Here in PA, the demonKKKrats have raped the Transportation Fund for decades, so the funds for any repair project are simply transferred from the General Fund.

[Red Badger]

EV’s are HEAVIER and thus do more damage to roadways than ICE cars.............

[cuban leaf]

I’ve said since around 1980 that if the personal car was invented “today”, they would be as common as flying cars and private airplanes.

Removing us from our private vehicles is the “big” step for them, regarding controlling our lives from morning to night.

[texas booster]

B I N G O !

The fee will not apply to hybrid vehicles.

Please note that the fee does not apply to hybrids - which some watermelon somewhere has decided just aren't good enough.

[1Old Pro]

Here in PA, the demonKKKrats have raped the Transportation Fund for decades, so the funds for any repair project are simply transferred from the General Fund.

Same in NY, so when they finally need repairs, it a multi billion dollar bond borrowing which makes repairs even more costly and it's an additional tax on residents, in the highest taxed state in the union.

[texas booster]

Yeah, the $200 fee will be just the start.

After all, exactly how many toll roads in Texas (or anywhere) stopped collecting tolls once the original bonds were paid off?

In Texas, just one.

[TexasGator]

Cars do very little damage to roads.

Should 6000# ICE powered SUVs pay a higher tax than a 4000# EV?

[Right Brother]

Bingo. Then everybody will be forced into public transportation. You know, for equity and climate justice.