That's fundamentally the same problem: you're ostensibly taxing road users to cover road maintenance (except fuel taxes don't cover the whole amount), and EV vehicles aren't paying those taxes but are clearly using the roads.
On the other hand, the idea of having a government tracker in my car all the time is beyond icky. I'd much rather overspend a little via a simple annual odometer reading than have a government agency with access to detailed location logging.
A federal annual odometer reading that then distributes funds to states based on vehicle miles travelled and road network size solves the jurisdiction problem, but would never fly in the US as federal overreach.
The argument that they're making is that they only want to tax for miles driven inside the state, not for miles driven elsewhere -- and that requires location information.
It's an argument that makes no sense to me at all.
Preventing tax avoidance is a terrible excuse for Big Brother surveillance.
We wouldn’t even need to touch entitlement programs if we just got rid of wasteful pork spending and streamlined some of the bureaucracy.
2. Roads need to be paid for somehow.
This would require making "unmetered" plugs illegal.
[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/hybrids-evs/can-electri....
How long until they decide to start using that data for more than just taxes?
No, not from a monetary perspective. It simply wouldn't work, and that can't be ignored.
I think a workable approach might be having two options a person could choose from: 1. GPS (cheaper if you drive out of state often), 2. based on total mileage traveled.
For this to work, the metering would have to be in the car, with some government regulated system included in the power management. I think that's doable, but not for existing cars. A GPS could be easily installed in to any existing car, non-invasively, and mileage is already tracked.