Georgia electric vehicle fee

How much is the Georgia EV registration fee?

$238.59 a year. That sits on top of the ordinary $20 registration, so an electric car costs $258.59 a year to keep on the road where a gas car costs $20.

Georgia charges an annual alternative fuel vehicle license fee of $238.59 for a non commercial vehicle and $357.98 for a commercial one. It applies to cars running only on electricity, and to plug in hybrids and flex fuel cars that have chosen alternative fuel plates. The amount is re-set every July from fuel efficiency and inflation figures, so it moves each year. source 4

What Georgia's $238.59 adds up to

The yearly number understates it. Here is what Georgia's $238.59 comes to the longer you keep the car.

Whether $238.59 a year is a fair swap depends entirely on how far you drive, because it stands in for the fuel tax an electric car skips. Drive a lot and you are ahead; drive little and the Georgia charge costs you more than the tax it replaces.

What the Georgia charge is for

Here is the Georgia figure in proportion. The registration fee for any car is $20. The electric vehicle charge on top of it is $238.59, which is 11.9 times the fee it is added to. An electric car in Georgia is not paying a slightly higher registration, it is paying a separate bill that happens to arrive with the registration.

It comes down to how roads are funded. Gas drivers pay for them at the pump through fuel tax; an electric driver does not, so Georgia recovers a share of that with a yearly fee instead. More on why states charge it.

Whether the amount is a fair swap is where the states stop agreeing. New Jersey charges $270 and Hawaii charges $50 for the same car doing the same mileage. The reasoning and the full range are set out here.

When you pay it

In Georgia it is charged from the first registration, so it lands in the bill on the day you buy the car rather than a year later.

The calculator on the Georgia registration page applies that rule. Set the fuel type to electric and it shows you the figure in place, with everything else itemized around it.

How Georgia compares

Georgia is 6th highest of the 41 states that charge an electric car fee.

Georgia shown against the states next to it and the two ends of the range. All 51 side by side on the EV fee by state page.

Questions about the Georgia EV fee

More on registering a car in Georgia

The electric vehicle charge is one line on a longer bill. These pages cover the rest for Georgia:

Nearby states

Or see every state on the EV registration fee by state page.

Where these numbers come from