Texas Approves $200 Annual Fee for Electric Vehicle Owners

Texas is set to impose a $200 annual fee on EV owners, which is seen as an attack on EVs and EV adoption on behalf of the fossil fuel industry. The argument is that EVs don’t pay to build and repair roads since they don’t pay gas taxes. However, the $200 annual fee is arbitrary and is possibly just an attack on EVs. Consumer Reports estimates that, under the logic of the bill, the annual tax should be just $71, not $200. This policy goes against the trend of incentivizing EV adoption and is a stain on both Texas and the United States as a whole.