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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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Pay-per-mile fees have emerged as the most likely solution to dropping gas revenues linked to electric vehicles. (www.politico.com)

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[–] ricecake 28 points 2 months ago (32 children)

Eliminate the gas tax entirely and replace it with a weight and mileage based tax on commercial freight shipping.

Cars put next to no strain on the roads. Freight trucks put a disproportionate amount of strain on the roads.

https://www.gao.gov/products/109954

a five-axle, tractor-trailer loaded to the 80,000-pound Federal limit, has the same impact on an interstate highway as 9,600 automobiles

a truck axle carrying 18,000 pounds is only 9 times heavier than a 2,000-pound automobile axle, it does 5,000 times more damage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law

Since the roads have to be built to tolerate trucks, the impact of the cars on the road are effectively negligible. We also already have a system for regularly weighing and monitoring the millage on freight trucks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

cars put more strain on roads than bikes, walking and unicycling

[–] ricecake 2 points 2 months ago

They do. I'm also in favor of tearing out intracity highways, converting roads in urban centers in walkable spaces, and shifting zoning to encourage the density required for those to be actually viable transportation.

Those are all super tall orders though, so I'm happy to start with shifting the financial burden for road maintenance to those mainly driving it (🥁)

Cars may do more, but for maintenance spending a car and a pedestrian have exactly the same impact.

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