Creating Incentive for Electric Vehicles
David Radzieta notes:
My LEAF turned 12 years old this month. The battery was replaced 8.5 years ago under warranty with a 24kwh Lizard battery. Still running at 85% battery capacity.
If your family has multiple cars and you can charge at home one should be an EV.
90k miles. About 300,000 pounds of carbon dioxide saved. That’s about 500 acres of forest. Total charging cost around $300. Saved nearly 9k gallons of gasoline. Great ride, reliable. $1500 repairs (OBC and windshield) and $1000 tires, rims, and wiper blades.
We do have to pay a $200 annual EV fine in Alabama now subsidizing gas cars.
Nice going!
I’m not sure I would call it a fine, but rather a fee to force EV drivers to share the cost of road maintenance, which seems fair to me.
Having said that, I completely agree that phasing out internal combustion engines should be incentivized, which would happen with the implementation of the Carbon Fee and Dividend program that I’ve written about frequently.
