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It's far away from the average of around 12,000. Few cars drive 35,000mi.

> With that information, the British newspaper calculated that BEVs [battery electric vehicles] could expose roads to 2.24 times more damage than gas cars.

If that's true, then 12-15k miles in an EV would be equivalent to 27-33k miles in a gas car.. so "taxes equivalent to 35k miles" isn't far off.

Ref: https://www.autoevolution.com/news/bevs-could-also-damage-ro...

The average driver also doesn't get 35 mpg driving regularly. The average driver probably gets around 20 mpg, and that would make this distance about 15000 mi.

The kind of people choosing an EV wouldn't get a 20mpg car, it's an unfair comparison.

They also chose a car that's extremely heavy (by virtue of the battery), so they create more road wear per mile than the average American car. The point is that tax rate seems fair.

The ICE I would have picked otherwise is only 100kg lighter and gets 40mpg.

And you’d be paying gas tax

Far less than what I'm paying with the EV, which is my point!

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