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What a joke! Indiana has shown zero interest in supporting electrification of passenger vehicles, and in fact actively discourages owning them. Maybe the state will turn the corner – if only to gobble up the Federal funds – but Indiana has been actively hostile to development for years.
“Multiple, yearslong initiatives in Indiana seek to increase the number of electric and hybrid vehicles on Hoosier roads and reduce overall carbon emissions.”
Please cite any real source for that, as the two shown are not aligned with that opinion. The first link shows a site where Indiana is criticized for squandering federal assistance, providing no funds of it’s own, and being years behind our neighbors. The next link is to a criticism of the new “task force” where these modernization plans will go to die, and they instead speak of plans to sell more of our roads to raise tolls.
Why is registering a hybrid or BEV subject to hundreds of dollars annually in additional tax penalties? Why is there no state tax break for purchasing or owning those vehicles? How is there currently only 1 publicly available DC charging station on the entire I-69 corridor (Fishers)?
“Some lawmakers and state officials say that model is cause for concern, maintaining that—as the number of electric and hybrid vehicles increases—more needs to be done to ensure that roadways can be properly funded and maintained.”
Stop this myth. Gas taxes don’t even come close to paying for the roads. A fraction of the roads budget is covered by those taxes ($1.7B raised in 2022, vs ~$3B spent by INDOT each year). The only way to properly account for the wear on roads would be to tax vehicles by size or weight, which is a non-starter for Industry, and the SUV/tank owning suburbanites.
Well Charles, when you account for the increased weight of EVs (hundreds to thousands of pounds heavier than similarly sized gas vehicles because EV batteries are so much heavier than engines,) they should be paying for quite a bit more in roar wear costs than gas vehicles. Educate yourself with facts, not feelings. https://www.axios.com/2023/04/28/evs-weight-safety-problems
Read, Dominic. I want heavy vehicles – BEVs and heavy trucks included – to pay a fair share. I’m just tired of these lazy lame “gas tax replacement fees” of hundreds of dollars annually on a BEV or hybrid, whether it drives 100 miles or 20000 miles a year – when the electricity used is already taxed and gas tax doesn’t even come close to paying for the roads!
But you didn’t read, you just felt like being upset. Besides- both my PHEV and BEV cars are lighter than a gas Honda Pilot, Ford Explorer, or Chevy Blazer, so you don’t have a clue.
Don’t worry, folks. The Indiana legislature is wanting to add toll lanes to interstate highways (which is prohibited by federal law) because they are upset that people can drive through Indiana without stopping to buy gas. That will surely solve the problem and will apply to electric vehicles too!
(Sarcasm. Lots of it. We’re hosed due to the fools in the Legislature.)
Agreed. Great support for electric or hybrid vehicles… how about the additional $75 fee you pay when renewing the plates? Indiana isn’t doing a great job supporting the translon. It’s laughing stock honestly.
Inasmuch as Hoosiers don’t buy new vehicles as often as drivers in other states (at least as far as I have observed), it will be so sometime around 2065 before you see electric vehicles bearing Indiana license plates in significant numbers.
Until range and charging speeds increase significantly, EVs are merely a virtue signal for the rich and the green obsessed.
Valid concern for those taking long road trips… which most of us do, what, twice a year?
What do you need range for when all most do is commute to and from the office and you can charge overnight? That isn’t more than 50 miles of driving a day for most of us, and who cares if it takes 8 hours to charge when you’re asleep?