California electric vehicle drivers may pay $100 more in registration fees each year under a proposed bill that aims to raise $3.6 billion each year through gas taxes and fees that would repair and maintain California’s roads, according to the Associated Press (via Autoblog).
The proposed fees would be a sweeping reform to transportation funding that would increase California’s gas taxes by $0.10 per gallon, add $35 to vehicle registrations and increase vehicle fees by 35 percent over five years.
Already, gas and oil companies are lining up against the proposal.Coupled with California’s aggressive plan to cut emissions, the increased taxes and fees could be how many states cope with more electric cars on the road and better fuel economy.
California Governor Jerry Brown reportedly struck the deal to help raise money for more than $100 billion in needed road improvements in the state.
Included in the bill is tying the state’s gas taxes to inflation to fight rising costs and reluctance to increase taxes. The added $100 electric vehicle registration fee would join other states such as Georgia, Colorado, Wisconsin and Virginia to recoup revenue lost at the pump to electric cars.
“The big message we got is, whatever you do, try to be fair and make everybody pay a fair share,” State Sen. Jim Beall told Capital Public Radio. “And so the one way we can do that is to spread the cost over several different fees.”
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