Could actually be much worse - having owned several EV's in IL (starting with my Leaf); first we did have actual cash rebates for both the car and charger installs; both private in ones garage as well as commercial; not as large as some other states but decent ones -- then of course these went away; but, we did for a number of years after pay only $35 plate reg's fees for every 2 years! Then our wonderful legislators saw an opportunity to make a quick buck and someone had proposed a $1,000 annual EV plate fee -- well of course that was simply ridiculous so they lowered it to $100/year EV 'surcharge' - so in essence the EV plate fee went from $35 every 2 years to $502 ($251 annually -- this was under the guise that ALL IL annual reg' fees went up as well when this was done -- hey haven't you heard, IL is broke!!). An extra $100/yr while annoying hasn't discouraged most IL residents enough from buying a new (or used in many cases) EV -- is it 'fair' versus simply paying the equivalent in gas taxes, lots of stats out there so do not quote me, but taking even the highest numbers I came across - 53.7 cents/per gallon in gas taxes in IL -- say an EV is rated at 134 MPGe (say for a Tesla Model 3 AWD LR) - that translates to about 25K miles per year in gas taxes ($100/.537 = 186.22 gal X 134 MPGe = 24,953 annual miles) ... higher than annual average of miles driven by many but NOT as high an equivalent as I've seen in other states. In my own case -- I have solar panels and most of the time charge at home for 'free' - don't even impact the grid, now of course that doesn't take into account the solar panel install costs, etc. but you get the gist; I'm sure my 'free' fuel annoys the state of IL even though I'm reducing my grid based electrical consumption for my 'fuel' needs. I'm sure we haven't seen what's coming in many states but let's wait and see what this huge infrastructure package that should include EV rebates if it ever gets enough traction ... will be interesting to see how these individual states react with extra fees, etc. if anything ever gets passed. It seems that its never quite a rational decision made (EV fees) based on facts ... kind of sad really but that's the current state of affairs.