We are building a new house. Our council made us to install mandatory electric vehicle charger in the garage. $1000 wasted as we are about to buy two brand new petrol cars and drive them for 20 years (our previous 2 cars are 23 and 20 years old).
Sorry... let me get this straight. You're building a new house, for presumably a couple hundred grand, you're buying
two brand new gas burners (presumably not looking anywhere near TCO of gas vs electric), and you're upset about being required to put in a $1000 charger because it's wasting money?
Retrofits of EV charger circuits often cost quite some multiple of that depending on power service to the house and such, so... I don't really have a huge problem with it being part of new construction. It's far less wasteful than trying to put it in later and having to rip open walls to run conduit, replace panels for higher capacity, etc. Not something I'll let myself get worried about, and given the fountain of waste that two brand new gas burners is, not something you should get terribly worked up over either. Though I'd hope they're just requiring a 50A circuit run with a plug, not an actual hard wired EV charger - a 14-50 (at least in the US, not sure what you've got over there) is useful for a wide range of things, not just EV charging, and with the newer codes and chargers, you can hang two vehicles off a single 50A circuit and let the chargers sort out the details of how to route power to avoid overloading the circuit.
The formulas for calculating wear and tear has a factor for axle load. Its not linear, its not squared, it's not even cubed. Its raised to the power of four. So weight is largely irrelevant until it suddenly explodes. So heavy traffic is pretty much resposible for all wear and tear and personal car almost zero. The general assumption is somehwere in the 98-99% coming from heavy vehicles.
Yeah, a single overweight dump truck rolling 120k lb on 3 axles (80k is the typical limit in the US without an awful lot of paperwork and extra axles) will do more damage to the road in one trip than a car would do in a lifetime of driving back and forth on the road. Though the heavies are good on gravel.
With an EV the problem is rather that the brakes must be replaced due to being used way too little, not that they wear out due to higher weight of the car. I almost never use my brake pedal (Tesla @2.5 tonnes weight) as the regenerative breaking is generally sufficient for everything except when I have to make a sudden breaking due to something unforeseen.
I make a habit of doing a stop from speed down a hill (conveniently, the approach to our driveway) in neutral with our Volt on a regular basis for exactly that reason - run the brakes enough to keep them from seizing up. By then, I've got the house made, energy-wise, so there's no real harm in it. And enough brake use (firmly, if it's just me in the car and nobody is behind me) to keep them limber. I hate brake work. :p
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In general, I honestly think a lot of the complaints here about road taxes and such are pretty absurd. You like roads? Great, you have to pay for them somehow. There can be differences of opinion on the best way to pay for them, but the reality is that "I drive an EV, I should get to use the roads totally for free!" is not a long term sustainable method of funding roads, period. "I emit less point of use pollution and generally less lifecycle emissions" is a fine argument too, but separate it from road funding. Gas taxes are
not a carbon tax, in any sort, so don't pretend they are.
While I'm happy to take advantage of what's offered, it's a tiny bit absurd (IMO) just how many ways there are to use money to take advantage of systems to then save money in the long run at other people's cost. I've put in solar, and will, after about this spring when I catch up from winter, not have a power bill for 25 years (grandfathered in net metering) beyond the occasional small bit. Connection fees that pretty much cover the cost of my meter and not the transformer, then paying nothing for power. Fine with it, works out for me, but it's not exactly a great deal for those who can't drop $30k on solar. Same with EVs, higher up front cost for lower operating costs, great trade, if you've got the coin to do it. So I wouldn't mind paying a bit more for roads, though I would far rather have it be a per-mile fee (NOT tracked as I go, TYVM, just based on registration and some sort of annual monthly payment option so it wasn't a single lump sum for those who don't like such things).
I've no particular interest in ensuring I can stick it to people with less money, but, I suppose, back to your regularly scheduled bitching.