HankLloydRight
No Roads
Might not happen at the federal level, but some states already perform carious safety checks every year. I'm right next door to you in NY and this is what the safety check includes:
Federal level? There is no such thing for car inspections.
Yeah, I used to live in Massachusetts which is like NY on car inspections, and from what I've heard, getting continually worse. They now have state-mandated video recorders to record and document every car inspector is doing the required tests and properly. Everything is logged and recorded. When I lived there my corner gas station/auto shop would often 'look the other way' when inspecting my 1981 Delorean (the front end was always loose by their standards no matter how good it was, even brand new!).. but I was a good customer and they helped me out in that department when I needed it. Otherwise, there's no way the car would have passed several of the MA inspection tests. I moved away almost ten years ago, I really don't know what would have happened the the Delorean if I stayed there.
So I'll go back and say yeah, there might be a state inspection item for a PWD in some states, but it's not going to happen for a long, long, long time... until EVs are much more common on the road. I think at this point they're still quite a novelty and state inspectors aren't going to worry themselves about it (or even realize it's a thing) for, I'd guess, at least ten years.