CA owners. Fees ...

[R1Sky Business]

California owners what fees were due at the time of purchase? Cost of California registration (orange county), any other fees associated with it. Thanks in advance.

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[Cavalryscout18]

I haven’t taken delivery but when I bought a Tesla, I was charged the normal fees similar to buying a car from a local dealer (delivery, taxes, license, registration, title). Taxes are based on delivery zip code.

 

[Killer95Stang]

CA is so backwards, that we will probably get charged a gas guzzler tax. Maybe a monthly fee for not paying into the gas infrastructure, like they are trying to do with solar panels.

 

[Ladiver]

I expect we will get hit with commercial truck fees due to the weight of the R1T. The R1S should be exempt since not a truck. I don’t know if CA has a weight fee on passenger vehicles???

hopefully an owner responds.

 

[Tim-in-CA]

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https://www.dmv.ca.gov/wasapp/FeeCalculatorWeb/newVehicleForm.do

 

[MXA121]

Last year when i lived there, 9% sales tax plus registration fees. I figure 10% is a good rough estimate. I suppose take solace in the fact that CA has other incentives on EVs to claw back some cash later.

 

[Killer95Stang]

$8416.00 for me.....

 

[ironpig]

Assume 10% on top of purchase price and that’s should be close depending on where you are.

 

[Tanquen]

I expect we will get hit with commercial truck fees due to the weight of the R1T. The R1S should be exempt since not a truck. I don’t know if CA has a weight fee on passenger vehicles???

hopefully an owner responds.

I do worry about the weight. That's why there's never really going to be a limit to the range desired from the battery pack. For some time. Anyway, it's always going to be valuable to be able to go lighter.

If you're doing more damage the infrastructure then there should be a fee associated with that. Having trucks and vans gotten around all kinds of testing and certification, fees because they're supposed to be work vehicles and not recreational or daily drivers, commute vehicles? I guess that's mostly benefited the manufacturers though.

 

[Tanquen]

CA is so backwards, that we will probably get charged a gas guzzler tax. Maybe a monthly fee for not paying into the gas infrastructure, like they are trying to do with solar panels.

I'm not sure what you're expecting. There are certain incentives for electric vehicles and when they're making enough electric vehicles those are going to go away.

People kind of suck, they're totally should be a gas guzzler tax and a luxury tax. Why should the rest of the people support a subset that doesn't care how much things cost and how much gas they burn? Then you have the people close to the Mexican border driving over it to buy gas cheaper and screwing with their attempts to deal with the high gas prices. It's like hurding cats because the tax system is so f***** up and nobody wants to pay their fair share.

If we're no longer generating a tax from the sale of gas or as much, they need to recoup that somewhere to pay for roads and bridges and other infrastructure. Not to mention the fact that everybody is so anti-tax that the existing gas tax is way behind inflation. So all those knee-jerk gas price, hikes and the annual ones during the summer are more severe and just go to oil company profits and not infrastructure.

And yeah, just like solar panels. Early on they were more expensive and there needed to be more incentive. Then you reach some kind of tipping point where the electricity suppliers are, wait a minute, we're not going to have enough rate payers to cover upkeep. Here in California, PG&E being run for profit is an issue and needs to be dealt with. Blowing up a neighborhood and killing a bunch of people and not knowing where the gas turn off is pretty much, kind of sort of, unacceptable. You know that you're paying fees that should be covering testing, documentation and salaries to people that know what they're doing, but they're not doing their due diligence and they're paying out profits to CEO types that aren't doing their job. People should be in jail, but that's another thing entirely.

 

[TurboTwin]

You should try and register it at a friends place in a county with the lowest taxes. Could potentially save you from the government stealing a good amount of money from you in taxes.

 

[mecrider82]

Here is the breakdown of my fees from purchase in Sonoma County (Santa Rosa to be exact), vehicle subtotal was $75,300 and taxes/fees added about $9300 on top of vehicle cost, which was a little over 12%. I expect the destination fee and documentation fees would be the same regardless but the sales tax and registration will vary slightly but hopefully this helps!

Vehicle Taxes
Vehicle sales tax 9.25% tax applied for CA 95403
$7,071.16


Fees
Destination fee
$1,075.00
Title & registration fees
$1,072.75
Documentation fee
$70.00

 

[R1Sky Business]

Here is the breakdown of my fees from purchase in Sonoma County (Santa Rosa to be exact), vehicle subtotal was $75,300 and taxes/fees added about $9300 on top of vehicle cost, which was a little over 12%. I expect the destination fee and documentation fees would be the same regardless but the sales tax and registration will vary slightly but hopefully this helps!

Vehicle Taxes
Vehicle sales tax 9.25% tax applied for CA 95403
$7,071.16


Fees
Destination fee
$1,075.00
Title & registration fees
$1,072.75
Documentation fee
$70.00

Love CA

 

[goldburger]

I expect we will get hit with commercial truck fees due to the weight of the R1T. The R1S should be exempt since not a truck. I don’t know if CA has a weight fee on passenger vehicles???

hopefully an owner responds.

All pickup trucks in California are registered as commercial regardless of weight.

 

[mecrider82]

Love CA

Oh yeah! I guess the benefits and perks make up for the crazy expensiveness of living here...

Oh and for anyone that was wondering, the weight fee portion of the registration specifically was $266 and that is a set amount for EVs in the 6000-9999lb unladen weight range. Not sure if Max packs would exceed that, in which case an unladen weight of 10K lbs or more is a $358 fee. The VLF portion was around $500 and everything else was just random fees between state and county...I also got hit with county (or city) sales tax in addition to the state sales tax, fortunately it was fairly low in comparison, less than 1% of the vehicle price! Paid my dues for these wonderful pot-holey roads, guess its a good thing this truck rides like a dream

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