Shame the infrastructure is so lacking, and the Victorian government have a road tax specifically for EVs
In essence, everyone pays for federal roads, road user or not, and municipalities pay for local roads. Except for larger state funded projects, which often receive federal assistance. Fuel taxes are a trivial component to infrastructure upkeep, is my understanding.
Another myth is that vehicle registration pays for roads, vehicle registration goes entirely to running the vehicle registration apparatus, that's all.
If that’s true, Australia needs to think about raising its fuel/vehicle taxes!
In the UK, the opposite is true: direct fuel and vehicle taxes raise 3-4X more revenue than is spent on roads annually[1]
[1] In 2021/22, £11.8 billion was spent on UK local and national roads, vs £28 billion raised from fuel duty and £7.1 billion from vehicle excise duty.
> 7.8billion came in from fuel excise, 7.7billion went back out in fuel tax credits.
just seems like pointless excercise in bureaucracy...