A counterargument would be that cars cause basically no road damage and it’s all caused by trucks. Studies have put the damage of a single truck at weight limit in the US to be equal to that of 9600 cars[1].

[1] https://www.gao.gov/assets/ced-79-94.pdf

The idea is sound but the tax appears to be disproportionate to what internal combustion vehicles pay. Texas taxes gas at 20 cents per gallon:

https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/texas-drivers-pay-20-c...

A Texan driver would have to buy 2000 gallons of gas a year to pay $400 in gas taxes to Texas. That seems pretty high when the average Texan drives 16347 miles per year [1]; it implies fuel economy of only 8.2 MPG at average travel distance. Even the big Ford F-450 has better average fuel economy than that.

[1] https://www.caranddriver.com/research/a32880477/average-mile...

In Texas cars don’t pay gas taxes either effectively. There is a tiny tax of 20c/gal. but that’s nowhere near this (another poster made a calculation of $60/yr roughly).

Just make this $150/yr, charge $1/gal tax for ICE cars, that should make it about even.

For comparison I pay $1500 yearly road tax and $4/gal in taxes alone at the pump and I find it too cheap to pollute still.

The article argues that the EV tax is much higher than gas taxes, and even more so if you include taxes paid for electricity.