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Originally Posted by JSH
Wisconsin adding a $100 fee to register an EV doesn't make used EVs obsolete. A 2012 Nissan Leaf still plugs into a Level 2 charger and charges
Nissan's original battery is warrantied for 8 years / 100K miles. The replacement is also warrantied for 8 years / 100K miles. So the question is: Will someone pay $1125 a year to keep driving their Leaf? Batteries are basically like prebuying fuel.
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Why would I pay the extra $665 tax+title on a $2000 car that can drive 35 miles and is only as useful as a moped that pays $25 annually in taxes?
Especially when an actually useful 400 mile range BEV pays the same taxes?
If the insurance and registration were VERY LOW I certainly could make use of older EV as a second car
But if I’m paying that much extra plus the annual $100 extra Plus the higher insurance I could never justify a second car like a leaf and would need a single full fledged full range EV and no other vehicle to make the TCO to even come close to making sense but then the up front costs are sky high.
There just is zero use case for a limited range BEV because the cost of entry for minimal utility is far too high.
If the taxes matched the age, value, range and utility of an older BEV people could make them work for in town driving, there just is no legal way to get the taxes out of the equation to make them work from a financial standpoint, the cost per mile is way too high.