> Charging at home is part of the problem. They need to separately meter power for cars and increase the rate and add a road maintenance tax based on vehicle weight
I'm not sure why it was killed because that actually is an issue that has not yet been satisfactorily solved.
Many states pay for road construction and maintenance via a per gallon gasoline tax. Since EVs do not use gasoline they have turned to other ways to get EVs to help pay for the roads, usually by adding a flat annual registration fee.
In my state that flat fee is $150. That is equal to the component of state taxes on gas that go to roads on 270 gallons of gas.
If I had bought an ICE (non-hybrid) earlier this year instead of an EV I would have bought either a Honda CR-V or a Honda Civic.
I mostly do city driving. With the CR-V I'd have to drive 7300 miles to pay $150 toward roads. It would be 8600 miles if I mostly drove highway. With the Civic it would be 8600 city or 11000 highway.
I actually drive under 2000 a year, so if my EV driving patterns end up being the same as my ICE patterns I'm going to be paying a lot more toward roads than I would have had I gone with an ICE car.
It does look like my mileage will go up with the EV, possibly up to 5000 miles a year, but even then I'll be paying more toward roads than if I had bought an ICE.
I'd much prefer to have a mileage based road tax.
I'd be fine if they just looked at my odometer whenever I renew my registration and charge me then, but for a lot of people having to pay their entire share of road fees for their last year of driving at once would be difficult.
Separately metering my home charging and taking care of the road fee there would be great.