Owning an EV may be $368 more expensive per year than driving a gas car. But not in the way you'd expect.
Electric car owners are freeloaders who skirt around the gas taxes that pay for the upkeep of America’s roads and highways—all while using that infrastructure just as much as anyone else. That’s what some people think, but a new study suggests that isn’t entirely true. Atlas Public Policy, a policy and data research firm, crunched the numbers and concluded basically the opposite.
There are sometimes per-kilowatt-hour taxes on energy dispensed along with regular-old sales taxes, for example. “Currently, there is no structure to prevent the overlapping of these fees, so EV drivers may be subject to a double, triple, or a quadruple tax depending on what state they reside in and where they charge,” the firm said in its report. “Meanwhile gasoline drivers are only subject to the gasoline tax and are generally exempt from sales or other taxes.
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