A meter on a charger will be way too easy to circumvent. We’ve owned 2 EVs now and both came with portable chargers. Tesla also has a portable charger that you can plug into anything from a standard 110 outlet all the way up to 50 amp 220 volt outlets. All of those portable chargers would need meters as well, along with some way to ensure they are properly registered, read when used, etc.
If meters on chargers were mandated then you’d likely see an influx of unmetered mobile chargers from other countries as a way to circumvent the tax.
Edit: We have also charged for free at complementary chargers at parking garages, hotels, restaurants, stores, etc. If chargers started being taxed I bet a lot of those complimentary chargers would simply disappear rather than the owners paying the tax or trying to figure out how to collect it from users.
Eh, I’m not worried about that even a hair as much as the privacy invasion. I’d rather have a thousand tax evaders (that will get caught eventually anyway) than one person being subjected to yet another means of tracking them without due process.
A meter on a charger will be way too easy to circumvent. We’ve owned 2 EVs now and both came with portable chargers. Tesla also has a portable charger that you can plug into anything from a standard 110 outlet all the way up to 50 amp 220 volt outlets. All of those portable chargers would need meters as well, along with some way to ensure they are properly registered, read when used, etc.
If meters on chargers were mandated then you’d likely see an influx of unmetered mobile chargers from other countries as a way to circumvent the tax.
Edit: We have also charged for free at complementary chargers at parking garages, hotels, restaurants, stores, etc. If chargers started being taxed I bet a lot of those complimentary chargers would simply disappear rather than the owners paying the tax or trying to figure out how to collect it from users.
Eh, I’m not worried about that even a hair as much as the privacy invasion. I’d rather have a thousand tax evaders (that will get caught eventually anyway) than one person being subjected to yet another means of tracking them without due process.