Meanwhile, New Jersey (one of the eight states mentioned here) just passed a law that increases the annual registration fee for EVs by $250/year, with automatic increases to this amount each year. And since new car buyers in NJ have to pay 4 years registration upfront, that's an extra upfront payment of $1000+ when buying a new EV.

The governor's budget also proposes eliminating the state's sales tax exemption for EVs (one of the few reliable EV incentives in NJ), which will effectively increase their upfront cost by another several thousand dollars.

I should mention the state does have a $5000 tax credit for new EVs. But it goes in and out of effect completely unpredictably, as funding runs out each year and then is reinstated arbitrarily some time the next year.

And this is all happening while EV sales are not doing well to begin with. There's basically no chance the ICE ban will happen as planned there.

And this is a blue state, with (iirc) ~40% nuclear and 10% renewable energy.