Florida is considering EV billing fee for future transport funding – WKMG News 6 & Clickerlando

Tallahassee, FLA – As Florida seems to expand the number of electric vehicles on our roads and infrastructure to support them, state legislators are looking at how they can add more sources of funding to the budget.

This month, the Republican Senator Nick Diegli filed a SB 462, a measure that offers raising money from state public electric charging fees. The FDOT will distribute 6 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity used in public stations to charge the State Transport Fund. If accepted, payments will start in October 2025 and will continue every month.

Our News 6 crew talks to drivers who stopped charging near EV and US 17-92 on Monday. A woman said she usually costs her about $ 24 to charge her car. Another woman showed us a total of 33 kWh.

Based on the proposal of the bill, the state can raise just under $ 2 for this only transaction.

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Online forecasts show that the average American EV uses about 30kWh per 100 miles based on information collected by the US Department of Transport by Gencell. They estimate that the average electric vehicle driver uses about 336.9 kWh each month.

With approximately 2358 electric vehicle charging stations in Florida, the state can raise millions of dollars that will go to improve infrastructure as road projects.

Currently, the data provided by the State Ministry of Transport show that the bigger part of the state funding revenue comes from the fuel tax. During the fiscal 2023, the gas tax generated $ 2.564 million, which was deposited with the Transport Fund.

Since the bigger part of the vehicles registered in the state are not EV, even if the bill becomes a law, the amount generated by the fuel tax every year will still be the largest flow of revenue.

Of a total of 24,204,035 vehicles registered in Florida, 346 038 are electric vehicles according to the safety of highways and motor vehicles of the Florida Division.

The speaker provided the following data for several counties in Central Florida to News 6:

• Orange: 33 994 Electric vehicles

• Oseola: 5 792 Electric vehicles

• Seminol: 7 791Electric vehicles

Over time, FDOT employees expect fuel tax to become less sustainable and less a fair fee, as more electric vehicles go on the road.

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