http://wcfcourier.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/iowa-dot-jumps-costs-for-electric-car/article_81f49d90-8e4d-5bb5-be8a-bdf496670827.html [image] Iowa DOT jumps costs for electric car By JAMES Q. LYNCH Jan 09 2013
Electric cars by county County Nissan Leaf Tesla Roadster Total Black Hawk 1 1 2 Cedar 1 0 1 Dallas 3 0 3 Des Moines 1 0 1 Guthrie 1 0 1 Johnson 4 0 4 Linn 7 1 8 Mahaska 1 0 1 Polk 10 0 10 Scott 2 0 2 Shelby 1 0 1 Story 4 0 4 Winneshiek 1 0 1 Woodbury 2 0 2 Total 39 2 41 CEDAR RAPIDS --- The cost of owning an all-electric car may get higher, but it will have nothing to do with the cost of the electricity used to charge its battery. The Iowa Department of Transportation will ask the Iowa Legislature to change the registration for all electric vehicles from a flat fee to the same formula for determining the registration cost for other vehicles, said Elizabeth Baird, the DOT's legislative lobbyist. Since 1927, owners of all-electric vehicles have paid an annual registration fee of $25. "It's amazing that it's been there that long," Baird said. "I think back then there might have been some people who were creating home-designed and manufactured electric vehicles." The issue hasn't received much attention "because there were not very many of these vehicles out there," she said. According to the DOT, there are 41 all-electric vehicles registered in Iowa including two on Black Hawk County. Polk has the most, with 10, followed by eight in Linn County. The DOT is proposing to base the registration fee on weight and value - the same formula used for other passenger vehicles. In the case of a $36,000 Nissan Leaf, the registration would go to about $366, according to the DOT. The increase would be about the same as a Leaf driver would save on gasoline over three months, according to J.D. Power and Associates, the Thousand Oaks, Calif. global marketing information services firm, which says the difference between the cost of electricity to recharge a Leaf's battery and gasoline to drive a month is $129. The change was approved by the legislature in 2012, but the bill was vetoed by Gov. Terry Branstad for unrelated reasons, Baird said. There was some opposition to the registration fee increase from auto dealers. However, Baird said it makes sense to treat the all-electric vehicles like other passenger vehicles. "It's a small but growing number, so it makes sense to make that change before it becomes a big impact," she said. [© 2013 wcfcourier.com ] For all EVLN posts use: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=evln&sort=date Here are today's archive-only EV posts: EVLN: AERO-Y EV @Tokyo Auto Salon 2013 with NAPAC EVLN: Spend only 40 paise per KM in this Mahindra e2o EV EVLN: Malaysian Leaf Ambassadors Programme enters Phase-3 EVLN: Shenzhen PC Wang's his Audi ice for an E6 EV + EVLN: $20M U.S. Military Bet, 500 EVs For EV-To-Grid Initiative {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Iowa-DOT-change-EV-registration-from-flat-fee-to-same-as-others-tp4660715.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
