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Car owners dialing back their odometers are rare, but it does happen. If you sell your car to a professional dealership, they'll usually run a Carfax or equivalent, before making an offer on the car. If your the original owner of the car since new, It'll be much more difficult to determine a roll-back; unless some service facility entered the odometer mileage. I'm seeing a lot more blank odometer readings from service facilities. You know they have those number, otherwise how do they enforce warranties on the work they performed?
IMHO; taxes on fuel usage; by the gallon is the fairest way of doing this. Since all EV's are equipped with ECUs; they can easily transmit annual mileage to DMV and pay accordingly or readings can be taken on annual safety or service checks. Larger heavier commercial automobiles that do the majority of the damage to the roads are usually less fuel efficient; therefore burn more petroleum products. An incentive to modernize and get more fuel efficient. Cyber tractor trailer rigs would be in consistent contact with home base; so the EV charge by miles setup would also work here with an add-on for payload - heavier the rig, more damage to the road. Truck scales and power band usage may be used to filter out cheaters.

Just my 2-cents on the matter.....

 

Acknowledging the problem of getting the mileage, I would go by tire count, 2-18. That would also cover trailers.

Weight would be nice but it would be a 'heavy lift' for most DMV clerks and departments.

Bob Wilson