Posted on 04/09/2024 7:49:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
“I figured that by the end of this decade EVs would have near cost-parity with combustion vehicles”
That won’t happen until the floodgate opens from Mexico of cheap BYD Chinese EV’s. And that will be the death knell of the US auto industry and the craven Democrat Union workers to build US junk.
Bahahahahaha. Enjoy the suck
Kalifornistan gov. Grusome nodding his head in approval.
They got a huge tax credit when they bought the car.
Now the government wants it back..................
This isn’t much different than Illinois. I have an ICE car and recently paid ~$150 for the yearly registration fee. EV owners are hit with an additional $100 tax to make up for the lack of gas taxes.
It varies from state to state. Currently 25 states charge extra annual registration fees for EV owners. Here in California I'm paying an extra $108 tax to make up for lack of gas taxes, exorbitant because I don't drive it much.
Good point. EV owners should be able to declare how much they drove the year before and have their registration fees adjusted.
“At least electricity is free, so there’s that. 🤡”
Of course it’s free, and I know how they get it. First they find a Grove of Magic Gaia Trees. Then they capture every petroleum industry executive they can find, drag them to the Magic Grove, and sacrifice all of them according to ancient Aztec tradition. Then, LO!!, all of the Gaia trees sprout infinitely powered electric outlets that supply all of the electricity we’ll ever need for all of our EVs.
question: what did socialists use to pave their roads with before they started paving them with dirt?
answer: asphalt.
In Thomas Edison’s NJ, residential electricity costs about 18 cents per kilowatt hour. Production costs vary from 1 to 4 cents. So electricity is already the most heavily taxed energy option. Consumers lose their sh*t when gasoline goes up 10 cents, but electricity is intangible, and invisible, well, until God hands down the big zot.
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