> Tax fuel
That accounts for fossil fuel cars but not electric ones.
> bring in road pricing
A fine idea except it's logistically difficult to implement tolls everywhere.
That accounts for fossil fuel cars but not electric ones.
> bring in road pricing
A fine idea except it's logistically difficult to implement tolls everywhere.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/road-charging/news/fifteen-...
The actual cost like 90% of the price is taxes if I remember correctly.
So taxes for electric cars "Fuel" have already been accounted for.
Edit: grammar is hard
Fresh numbers from todays elpris.dk - øre = Danish cents (yes, they are called ears).
Cost of production: 26,05 øre/kWh Transmission: 35,19 øre/kWh Taxes: 105,40 øre/kWh VAT (25,00 pct.) 41,66 øre/kWh
In total: 208,31 øre/kWh
This has an advantage in enabling provision of a device at country borders etc.
Another option is to develop a cheap Automatic Number Plate Camera and create a network of cameras across our road systems.
Both approaches not only allow road pricing strategies, but also address speeding.
This may be a bit big brother for some but this is pretty much the way I see us heading.
The future is going to be dreadful isn't it.
Except that if you look at it from a little higher vantage point than driver seat, it seems obvious that it's those people who are stupid.
It's literally highway robbery :|
"Danish" is an adjective or a cake.
No idea how to solve that for electric vehicles. Presumably still at the point of charging.
Fuel duty revenue in the UK is £28billion. That's a big hole to fill.
I suspect that eventually you will be able to charge your electric car only from an approved charger that bills you a higher-rate car tariff, just like you can only use fuel sold at a petrol station in your car.
As for the telematics - excuse me saying so, but the UK government can fuck off with suggesting even more surveillance, it's hard to fight off insurers installing telematics boxes as it is already.
But right now as it stands currently, telematics boxes are nothing else but a greedy attempt to get more cash out of drivers - they collect proprietary data, ran through secret algorithms, to secretly decide whether your insurance should go up or not. Try getting a letter from your insurer telling you that your insurance will go up due to your "driving style" and then ask if they can explain what they mean by that. They can't. "the computer said so" is an absolutely fantastic excuse for these companies to make more money and I'm extremely cynical about it, even if we ignore the entire surveillance aspect for a second. The whole idea needs a lot more regulation/openness to be acceptable.
To the wealthy it won't matter much if you tax the purchase of the car or the kilometers driven. Those making below the average salary are normally excluded from living in the center of the cities, and is in some cases even forced outside the bus routes. Also Danish public transit is notoriously bad outside the four largest cities.
So is there a use for car taxes at all? We could always just tax the rich directly, if we don't care about tying the tax amount to road usage.