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Senators preview mileage-based user fee for electric vehicles and propose regional review of transportation grants
Summary
Committee members discussed advancing a mileage-based user fee for electric vehicles, a two-year review to prioritize regionally important roads, and consolidating multiple highway grant programs to reduce administrative burden.
Senators on the appropriations/transportation discussion sketched next steps for a mileage-based user fee for electric vehicles and asked staff to design a two-year review of municipal transportation needs to better prioritize state grant dollars.
The committee said the mileage-based user fee for battery-electric vehicles should be set so the fee “is approximately equivalent to the average amount collected by the state in fuel tax revenues from the use of a non plug in electric vehicle registered in Vermont.” Members described that fee as an interim step toward a system…
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