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Penny Pincher

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17/09/21

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Originally posted by Penny Pincher: ↑

Likewise, someone has to pay for the detrimental health impacts of ICE car pollution as well as ever escalating cost of man made climate change...

At present , it is estimated that every EVs benefit to society is about $10,000 per vehicle by avoiding those impacts.

So happy to have road tax adopted, if those other costs are charged to ICE drivers.

However, another issue is to have two seperate systems to tax for road use. An indirect federal tax on petrol for ICE cars and a state-based road usage tax only for EVs. This is never going to be satisfactory to either ICE or EV drivers.

Also, at present, not all states have such a tax so things get ridiculously messy when people travel interstate.

I am all for lifting the tax on petrol that is claimed to be for the funding of roads and then charge a road tax on all vehicles, ICE and EV alike.

The system now operating in Victoria is simply stupid, as it acts as a disincentive towards the adoption of EVs.

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Just in case anyone wonders where I got the $10,000 figure in societal benefits per EV that I quoted in my above post:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316579570_Quantifying_the_Societal_Benefits_of_Electric_Vehicles

The figure below indicates where savings are coming from. Though the study comes out of Canada, I believe the currency quoted is US$ , though I am not 100% certain. There are other studies that came up with similar order of magnitude values.

In the article the authors explain that the grid benefit wouldn't only be attainable with bi-directional charging ability.

Interestingly, in the context of heightened national security concerns over recent times, the "National Security" benefit exceeds the "Health Impacts" in this study... by a factor of 2[!].

For every EV not bought because of the EV only road tax, all of the above benefits are forgone.
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