Dear Editor,
Re: “Who pays for power?” Letters, Aug. 5.
In addition to the electrical power charging costs for EVs, who pays for roads used by EVs?
EVs are immune from fuel taxes collected at the pumps for road construction and maintenance.
EVs are immune from the TransLink tax collected at the pumps for public transit services.
It is past due, when private and commercial EV operators paid an equivalent cost for road usage and public transit subsidy as liquid fuelled vehicle operators.
The commercial cost advantage of operating an EV instead of the heavily taxed liquid fuelled vehicle is significant and unfair.
Share the roads, share the costs.
Ken McLennan
RICHMOND
