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Re:Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car... by AnthonyMouse on Saturday November 21, 2020 @08:15PM (#25174024)
You can also sidestep the privacy issue there, because large electric vehicles are likely to need special chargers. (How many kW do you need to charge a 1MWh battery in a reasonable amount of time?) And then you can levy road tax on large trucks per kWh at the charging point in the traditional way without even having to track everywhere they go.
Re:Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car... by sokoloff on Sunday November 22, 2020 @01:00PM (#25179455)
How much privacy concern is there to have your odometer reading recorded annually in places that already do safety inspections? I mean, I've driven an average of 3400 miles per year on my car. Violate my privacy as much as you like with that data.
Re:Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car... by AnthonyMouse on Sunday November 22, 2020 @04:06PM (#25181113)
There have been proposals to track the location of trucks at all times, presumably so that a truck that drives all over the country is paying road fees in the states where it's actually driving instead of to whatever other state it's registered in (which would presumably be the one with the lowest fees). Levying the fees at the charging point replicates the existing (imperfect but pretty good) model with fuel tax because you at least have to charge somewhere that you're actually driving that day, without the privacy implications of tracking the vehicle at all times.