Illinois will hike fee for Teslas, Bolts and other EVs -- but to $248, not $1,000:

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2. I agree with you

At first, my thought was that this extra fee for electrical vehicles was at odds with the need to move to more carbon-reducing transportation options. But you're right: the gas tax pays for all kinds of necessary and positive infrastructure issues, and EV owners need to pay their fair share. Perhaps, in the near future, some of this revenue will also go to building more charging stations.

All that and ... let's remember that electric cars (and plug-in hybrids) have already gotten rather substantive tax credits. Plus, if you can afford a Tesla, an extra hundred bucks is not going to break you. Maybe not so much for a Leaf.