{"id":39838,"date":"2026-02-05T12:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=39838"},"modified":"2026-02-05T12:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:40:08","slug":"heavy-commercial-electric-vehicle-fee-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=39838","title":{"rendered":"Heavy commercial electric vehicle fee increased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill tripling the registration fee paid by owners of heavy commercial EVs received final approval from lawmakers Feb. 5.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32960\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32960\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"32960\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=32960\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenVonGillern_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communicati&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Nebraska Senator Brad Von Gillern. District 4. November 14, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1668445900&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2022, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenVonGillern_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. R. Brad von Gillern&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. R. Brad von Gillern&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenVonGillern_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32960\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenVonGillern_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. R. Brad von Gillern\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenVonGillern_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenVonGillern_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. R. Brad von Gillern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The standard state registration fee for alternative-fuel vehicles like electric cars is $150. Electric motorcycles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are subject to a $75 fee.<\/p>\n<p>LB207, introduced last session by Elkhorn Sen. R. Brad von Gillern, requires owners of commercially registered alternative-fuel vehicles with a gross weight of more than 7,500 pounds to pay a fee that is three times the standard fee, or $450.<\/p>\n<p>The fee does not apply to large commercial trucks that operate across state lines.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed on a vote of 49-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill tripling the registration fee paid by owners of heavy commercial EVs received final approval from lawmakers Feb. 5. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[288],"class_list":["post-39838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transportation-and-telecommunications","tag-sen-r-brad-von-gillern"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/UpdateBlogPhoto-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39840,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39838\/revisions\/39840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}