Fuel Tax Is Dying With Petrol, and Something Has to Replace It
Roads are funded by taxing fuel. Electric cars do not buy fuel. Governments are working out what comes next.
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Roads are funded by taxing fuel. Electric cars do not buy fuel. Governments are working out what comes next.
The sector spent a decade asking for clear rules. The rules arriving now favour a particular kind of participant.
Fast chargers exist and work. Getting them installed where people actually need them is the hard part.
Dozens of experiments have paid people unconditionally. The results are consistent and limited in what they can prove.
Dozens of countries are developing them. The design decisions matter far more than the technology.
Not one global framework but a patchwork of national rules with different definitions and different obligations.