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Vermont transportation officials push odometer-based mileage fee for EVs, plan to pilot with electric vehicles first
Summary
State policy director Patrick Murphy presented a plan to start a mileage‑based user fee with fully electric vehicles, relying on odometer data and photo-capture options, and said administrative costs are expected to be about 3.5–5% initially with a federal grant deliverable due Jan. 1, 2027.
Patrick Murphy, state policy director for the Vermont Agency of Transportation, briefed the Senate Transportation Committee on the state’s mileage-based user-fee design and implementation plan. Murphy said the proposed program would begin with fully electric vehicles and rely primarily on odometer readings from inspection-provider records, integrated into DMV systems via an API, with photo capture as a contingency for pay-as-you-go reporting.
Murphy told members the state’s design favors a state‑administered…
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