There are those among us who appear to think that electric cars will cause a fall in tax revenue, so should the users of these vehicles be hit with the excise on petrol and the petrol tax to level up the playing field?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-28/changes-required-to-fuel-excise-funding-before-electric-car-boom/10175402

Well, that depends how much electric cars reduce Global Warming & pollution by !

Those in government who think that electric cars are going to be a big thing are already looking to change from fuel excise & GST on top of that to a mileage charge for use of roads.

They are ahead of the game of electric cars reducing the tax take.

Of course those don't understand the full switch to electric is the lead into taking private cars off us, with perhaps a short term hiring of electric things as a lead to this.

The elites really can't believe how they let us peasants get access to private transport, large comfortable homes, & even flying around the place in aircraft when ever we want. They definitely want to put us back in our place, serving their comfort not ours.

Any one who doesn't understand this is simply a dill who has not thought through the whole global warming scam.

No, and the government shouldn't be charging 42c a litre fuel excise in the first place, its an impediment to national productivity.

Make them pay tax on their profits, don't tax them into bankruptcy before they even get paid.

Yes all past governments have become hooked on fuel tax
Not using it to build roads but for the budgets bottom line
They will continue this, with any new fuel we use
Dislike of electric cars is not going to stop them
They now are a very real opportunity for profit, that drives new technology not the climate

There has been a number techniques suggested. Some require installation
of readers of various types, magnetic readers of devices fitted under
cars, number plate readers etc.
Such methods will setup rat runs to avoid the readers.
Others require GPS enabled boxes that record the distance traveled.
They could be read remotely or at time of registration renewable.
There are a magnitude of ways to fiddle such systems. eg put some
alfoil around the GPS receiver antenna. Electronically diving the
odometer past maximum reading to a lower than real value.
You can bet whatever system the government decides on it will be hacked.