What I support is a "damage to the road tax"
As many engineers know road damage is a function of weight on tire^4
So you know those big 10 wheel Mack trucks, they are the biggest culprits to road damage, causing 10,000 times more damage than a regular car (remember 8000^4/1000^4 *10 wheels per truck/4 wheels per car)
While a Tesla S is a heavy car, it's causing 1/5200 times the damage of said Mack truck.
The Mack truck gets 5 mpg, and is paying roughly 8.4 cents per mile in NJ.
What does that mean? Well if we are going by road damage, the EV should be paying rounded up 21 cents to use the roads to be fair. That's less than the price of a stamp!
I don't think anyone would have an issue paying 21 cents, but they want the EV driver to may orders of magnitude more than that. Well, that doesn't make much sense.
Also consider that 21 cents as savings for paying regular registration costs and NOT having to get your car inspected. heck, best case, you are saving the state 15 minutes every 2 years, and let's say the person doing the test in making $10/hr- you are saving the state $1.25 every year, or 5 times MORE money than the damage you are causing compared to a Mack truck.