1. EV owners were encouraged to "game the system" with tax breaks and other incentives.
2. EV owners in Hawaii enjoy a "registration surcharge" intended to help offset the loss of fuel taxation.
3. EV owners account for 1% of vehicle registrations in Hawaii.
An entirely new road taxation paradigm seems like overkill to address 1% of vehicles. Especially when that 1% doesn't include the heavy vehicles that cause the most road damage.
The different tax jurisdiction would be the private subdivisions. If the county isn't going to remand the collected tax to the governing body of the private roads
The RUC program is State. I doubt they will be remitting anyone's "share" of the taxes collected. Perhaps someday County will have their own (separate, incompatible) road usage tax system, but none of that money will go to private roads either. County's blanket assertion is "it's in the County therefore under our jurisdiction".
2. EV owners in Hawaii enjoy a "registration surcharge" intended to help offset the loss of fuel taxation.
3. EV owners account for 1% of vehicle registrations in Hawaii.
An entirely new road taxation paradigm seems like overkill to address 1% of vehicles. Especially when that 1% doesn't include the heavy vehicles that cause the most road damage.
The different tax jurisdiction would be the private subdivisions. If the county isn't going to remand the collected tax to the governing body of the private roads
The RUC program is State. I doubt they will be remitting anyone's "share" of the taxes collected. Perhaps someday County will have their own (separate, incompatible) road usage tax system, but none of that money will go to private roads either. County's blanket assertion is "it's in the County therefore under our jurisdiction".