Special tax for electric cars?

Actually, one would think that buyers of environmentally friendly electric cars should pay less tax, and thus ensure the policy contribute to protecting the environment. But in the U.S. there are now first considerations, owners of electric vehicles with a special tax to ask for cash. This is intended to missing revenue from the gasoline tax will be cushioned.

Electric cars are good for the climate, but obviously bad for the state treasury. If more buyers access to new cars with hybrid or full electric drive, then go to the U.S. government millions of Interest leg Expensive by the tabs. In the U.S. state of New Jersey Senator James Whelan suggested according to "USA Today" before now introduce a mileage allowance for electric vehicles of 0.004 cents. While this sounds not much, but if you times that amount 19,000 km, the average distance traveled by Americans in a year, multiplied to get at least to 76 euros per year. A similar vehicle with a gasoline engine is then charged against only 53 euros. However, it is unclear whether this bill will pass the Parliament.

And in buttoned Virginia to owners of hybrid and electric cars now have an annual road maintenance contribution of just 50 euros. In Washington state, there are even 76 euros. If you can make the increasing number of environmentally-friendly means of transport responsible for the failures now alone is questionable, because the proportion was only 53,000 units in 2012 with total sales of 14.4 million new cars. Meanwhile, the conventionally powered vehicles in the U.S. are becoming more fuel efficient. Whether there might be considerations in Germany now, to ask drivers of climate-friendly cars to the checkout, you have to wait. But if you come to high tax revenues, the state is safe in this country with something to compensate for this decline.

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Americans bought more cars during the month of January

Automakers Ford, Chrysler and General Motors (GM) have all reported outbreaks in two digits for the month of January, evidence that the favorable circumstances of 2012 will continue this year in the United States.

At Ford, sales rose by 22% compared to the same period last year, while GM and Ford have both reported increases of 16%. Chrysler had its best sales in five years during the month of January.

On the European side, Volkswagen has reported a sales increase of 7 percent, a figure somewhat disappointing given the 31 percent increase recorded by the German manufacturer in 2012.

Toyota sales were up 27 percent.

It seems that many Americans have purchased vehicles last month. The automotive industry remains active despite a rather slow economic recovery in the United States.

Chrysler expects that total sales in the United States reached an annual rate of 15.5 million in January. If this trend continues over the years, automakers have sold 1 million units more than last year, when sales rose 13 percent.

Analysts predict that sales reach 15 to 15.5 million in 2013. Still below the peak of 17 million recorded in 2005, the industry could sell at least 5 million more cars and trucks in comparison to 2009, the worst year in the last three decades in car sales.

At Ford, the increase in sales is due in part to the Fusion model, whose sales rose 65 percent.

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