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UVM recommends 1.4¢ per mile mileage fee for light‑duty EVs; Senate committee to fold suggestion into T bill
Summary
UVM Transportation Research Center told the Senate Transportation committee it recommends a 1.4¢/mile fee for battery electric light‑duty vehicles, urges indexing to inflation, and proposes admin costs be handled via a flat vehicle fee rather than raising the per‑mile rate.
The Senate Transportation committee heard a UVM Transportation Research Center presentation that recommended a mileage‑based user fee of 1.4¢ per mile for battery electric light‑duty passenger cars as a step toward retaining state transportation revenue. Patrick Murphy, state policy director, BHC of Transportation, told the committee the agency contracted UVM to produce an easily explainable, defendable rate to incorporate into statutory language the committee expects to propose in the upcoming T bill.
Claire Nelson, research analyst at the University of Illinois Transportation Research Center, said the 1.4¢ figure was calculated by converting the state gas tax to a per‑mile basis using a five‑year average gas tax and distance‑weighted…
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