In order to stimulate electric car growth and cut pollution in the Salt Lake Valley, our legislature has decided to make all public chargers free. They did cost $1 for the use and 10 cents per KWH.
Here's a bit of detail on this story from KSL.com. And in looking for this I noticed that the state, at the same time, wants to hike registration of electrics and hybrids, which is kind of messed up, because you'd think you'd want to encourage people to buy vehicles that don't worsen the air in a place that suffers from terrible inversions in its largest city. Here's another piece on how the air quality in Salt Lake City affects its residents, just to bring the message home.
Yes, I live in supposedly "progressive" Minnesota. It is one of a few states where there is a $75 EV/PHEV SURCHARGE on registration with the logic that they're losing out on gasoline taxes.
From the Deseret News: In Utah, Sen. Wayne Harper's SB136 narrowly passed the Senate on a 15-12 vote Wednesday. It proposes a $122 fee for electric vehicles and $52 for plug-in hybrids. Advocates assert the lapsed tax credit for electric vehicles — the $1,500 incentive ended in 2016 — coupled with the increased fees will signficantly slow the rate of electric vehicle adoption in Utah.
Slightly unrelated, but Washington state has a sales tax waiver for such vehicles. They are still about 1000 units away from the 7500 max vehicles for this program, which is kind of amazing. http://www.dol.wa.gov/vehicleregistration/altfuelexemptions.html
Here in Tennessee, as part of a recent gas tax bill to fund roads, they added a $100 registration surcharge for EV's. I read the actual bill and it only applies to BEV's, not to hybrids nor PHEV's. (My guess is the legislators don't even know what a PHEV is.) I expect that we will see more of this as public sentiment is against EV drivers not helping to fund the roads, even though this disincentive flies in the face of all the incentives to purchase and operate EV's.
Here in North Carolina they have a $130 annual surcharge for full electric vehicles. PHEV's don't get punished since they also can burn gasoline.
So this $130 presumes 13k miles of driving each year (assuming 40mpg). Our neighbors have a Bolt which I am sure they do not drive close to that much, which means they pay a high highway tax than an ICE vehicle.