Albert Rösti envisages a taxation of e-carings to compensate for the forta deficit

Bad news in sight for electric cars holders. They are likely to go soon to go to the checkout via specific taxes from 2030. The Federal Council must put a project in consultation in mid-September to clean up the fund for national roads and agglomeration traffic (Forta), threatened with a deficit, reports on Wednesday the “Aargauer Zeitung”.

This fund is in fact mainly fueled by fuel taxes – so thermal cars. But with the progression of e-carings, he continues to see his recipes decrease. In 2024, its reserves thus increased from 3.83 to 3.67 billion francs and could fall below 500 million from 2028. This would result in an automatic increase in the price of petrol.

Bern suddenly reacted. Since 2024, e-carings must already pay an import tax, like petrol vehicles. But that is not enough and the Federal Council is working on other solutions. The services of Albert Rösti thus concocted two taxation models: one based on the self -removal of the mileage by the drivers, which would serve as the basis for the calculation of the tax; the other on certified meters measuring the energy consumed each year. The two variants pose practical and political questions, in particular with regard to cross -border traffic, transit and equity between public and private charging stations, notes the German daily.

A possible price already circulates: it would be a question of imposing a tax of 6 francs per 100 km, or about 35 cents/kWh. This would amount to aligning the taxation of electric cars with that of thermal vehicles.