{"id":357,"date":"2025-05-23T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ptbuddyfitnessapp.com\/?p=357"},"modified":"2025-05-30T12:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T12:15:21","slug":"trumps-big-beautiful-bill-passes-with-bigger-ev-and-hybrid-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ptbuddyfitnessapp.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-passes-with-bigger-ev-and-hybrid-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s \u2018Big Beautiful Bill\u2019 Passes With Bigger EV And Hybrid Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/ptbuddyfitnessapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Trump-Hybrid-Toyota-Prius002-1024x575-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-13 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<ul>\n<li>The US House of Representatives just passed Donald Trump&rsquo;s &lsquo;Big Beautiful Bill&rsquo; legislation.<\/li>\n<li>It&rsquo;ll now go to the Senate, where it&rsquo;ll also have to pass before making it to the president&rsquo;s desk.<\/li>\n<li>If approved, EV and hybrid owners could face significantly higher annual registration taxes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>After a marathon session in the House, lawmakers passed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carscoops.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump&rsquo;s<\/a> &lsquo;Big Beautiful Bill&rsquo;. While it still has to go through the Senate before becoming a law, the implications are indeed big. Under the proposal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carscoops.com\/tag\/hybrids\/\">hybrid<\/a> owners could pay $100 more every year to register their car, while EV drivers would face a steeper fee of $250.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-placement\">\n<div id=\"82503191-e1d1-435a-874f-9c78a2a54a2f\" class=\"_ap_apex_ad\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"0f7e3106-c4d6-4db4-8135-c508879a76f8\" class=\"_ap_apex_ad\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\tvar adpushup = window.adpushup  = window.adpushup || {que:[]};<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tadpushup.que.push(function() {<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tif (adpushup.config.platform !== &#8220;DESKTOP&#8221;){<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tadpushup.triggerAd(&#8220;0f7e3106-c4d6-4db4-8135-c508879a76f8&#8221;);<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t} else {<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tadpushup.triggerAd(&#8220;82503191-e1d1-435a-874f-9c78a2a54a2f&#8221;);<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t}<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t});<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Those new taxes are meant to combat the debt that the government incurs as a result of crumbling infrastructure. Right now, that work is mostly funded by gas taxes which are currently set at $0.18 per gallon. With more people driving EVs and hybrids, people are buying gas less and so the funds are dwindling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carscoops.com\/2025\/05\/californias-ev-future-just-got-canceled-by-washington\/\">California&rsquo;s EV Future Just Got Canceled By Washington<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The bill includes provisions from the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to provide historic investments in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carscoops.com\/tag\/usa\/\">United States<\/a> Coast Guard to strengthen our national and border security, as well as &hellip; ensuring that electric vehicles begin contributing to the Highway Trust Fund,&rdquo; said Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.), chairman of the influential Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.<\/p>\n<div id=\"taboola-mid-article\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"taboola-mid-article-thumbnails-organic\"><\/div>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttnews.com\/articles\/house-backs-ev-hybrid-fees\">TTNews<\/a>, the last time the Highway Trust Fund received any sort of assistance was back in 2021. Despite that, it goes into tens of billions of dollars of debt every year. Since EVs buy very little fuel, they&rsquo;ve often been seen as freeloaders on American roads. Hybrids fall into the murky middle. Both tend to weigh more on average than a gas-powered car in the same segment so it&rsquo;s worth considering that they have the potential to do more damage.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>A Broken System Gets a Shakeup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The reality here is that with or without EVs and hybrids, the government&rsquo;s plan for funding highway infrastructure was a failure. It&rsquo;s never been tied to inflation, so it&rsquo;s continually lagging behind, and now we&rsquo;re here, 20 billion dollars in debt annually.<\/p>\n<p>That said, it seems that the pendulum of failure might be swinging just as strongly but in the other direction now. As we pointed out in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carscoops.com\/2025\/04\/federal-lawmakers-want-to-charge-you-20-to-drive-your-car-200-if-its-an-ev\/\"> our earlier coverage<\/a> of this topic, now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carscoops.com\/tag\/electric-vehicles\/\">EV<\/a> and hybrid drivers will end up paying far more than gas-car drivers. Ultimately, this could still end up getting axed before it becomes law. GOP leaders in the Senate could make several changes before trying to pass it there.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-placement\">\n<div id=\"9b1169d9-7a89-4971-a77f-1397f7588751\" class=\"_ap_apex_ad\"> <\/div>\n<div id=\"bb7964e9-07de-4b06-a83e-ead35079d53c\" class=\"_ap_apex_ad\"> <\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\tvar adpushup = window.adpushup  = window.adpushup || {que:[]};<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tadpushup.que.push(function() {<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tif (adpushup.config.platform !== &#8220;DESKTOP&#8221;){<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tadpushup.triggerAd(&#8220;bb7964e9-07de-4b06-a83e-ead35079d53c&#8221;);<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t} else {<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tadpushup.triggerAd(&#8220;9b1169d9-7a89-4971-a77f-1397f7588751&#8221;);<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t}<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t});<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carscoops.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ford_Tesla_Mustang-Mach-E.jpg\" data-type=\"inarticle-image-block\"> <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazy \" src=\"\" alt=\" Trump&rsquo;s &lsquo;Big Beautiful Bill&rsquo; Passes With Bigger EV And Hybrid Taxes\" width=\"2450\" height=\"1837\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.carscoops.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ford_Tesla_Mustang-Mach-E-1024x768.jpg\" data-type=\"inarticle-image\" \/><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>        <\/a>  <\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h4>\n<div class=\"ad-placement\">\n<div id=\"9b1169d9-7a89-4971-a77f-1397f7588751\" class=\"_ap_apex_ad\"> <\/div>\n<div id=\"bb7964e9-07de-4b06-a83e-ead35079d53c\" class=\"_ap_apex_ad\"> <\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\tvar adpushup = window.adpushup  = window.adpushup || {que:[]};<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tadpushup.que.push(function() {<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tif (adpushup.config.platform !== &#8220;DESKTOP&#8221;){<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tadpushup.triggerAd(&#8220;bb7964e9-07de-4b06-a83e-ead35079d53c&#8221;);<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t} else {<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tadpushup.triggerAd(&#8220;9b1169d9-7a89-4971-a77f-1397f7588751&#8221;);<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t}<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t});<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US House of Representatives just passed Donald Trump&rsquo;s &lsquo;Big Beautiful Bill&rsquo; legislation. It&rsquo;ll now go to the Senate, where it&rsquo;ll also have to pass before making it to the president&rsquo;s desk. If approved, EV and hybrid owners could face significantly higher annual registration taxes. After a marathon session in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geneva-motor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptbuddyfitnessapp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptbuddyfitnessapp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptbuddyfitnessapp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptbuddyfitnessapp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptbuddyfitnessapp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ptbuddyfitnessapp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/ptbuddyfitnessapp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptbuddyfitnessapp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptbuddyfitnessapp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptbuddyfitnessapp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptbuddyfitnessapp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}