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Road tax for Australian EV users ‘sensible’, Tanya Plibersek says ahead of key economic summit
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2025
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They are without a doubt right about this, eventually. But geez, we're having a hard enough time getting uptake of EVs (especially the non-fascist ones) in this country as it is. Maybe wait until EVs are like 40% of the market first? And encourage that by increasing the petrol excise to compensate in the meantime.
@Zagorath
"Road usage" has been taxed through the fuel excise paid at the bowser. This method is far from perfect, but it does allow reasonably anonymous travel.
In the future, the gov't will have (at least) two ways of taxing the road usage of EVs.
One way will be fair, equitable, based on 'mileage', and anonymous.
The other way will permit the government to conduct 'real time' monitoring of every vehicle's speed and position.
Our gov't will choose this second option, and with bipartisan support.
@Davriellelouna