Yes it is stupid that they are sticking a $250/yr road use tax on your registration, we really do need to stop using ICE vehicles, but states have to maintain roads and that is massively expensive.

It will be 16 years before the road use tax equals your state credit.

Thanks for telling me about this. Ill check it out.
I drive very little but a yearly $250 surcharge wont hurt me and Ill have a new car that requires little maintenance over the life of the vehicle, and I wont be beholden to the fluctuations in the price of gas.

...so there is no ADDITIONAL tax involved.

The gas tax approximates actual road use. The EV tax doesn't. So it really depends on how much you use your ev, and really it ought to be a mileage tax not a fixed rate.

Removing the road tax that is added to gasoline and installing a mileage tax equally on all cars would be a more accurate and fair way of billing drivers for road use.

However, that would unfortunately slow the transition away from CO2 emmissions because a lot of people are more concerned about their personal, individual expenses than they are about our shared ecological systems.

The Virginia DMV has a device that attaches to your odometer so you only pay on miles you use. Perhaps that option is available in NJ.

Yeah, the extra $250 tacked onto the registration fee is a little sucky. But I wouldn't lose sleep over it.
Every time I'm somewhere talking with someone, and I can't hear them because somebody's loud-ass truck goes by, I think, "Come on, Joe! Do what Repubs say you're gonna do, and make everybody give up their gas vehicles!"

But human nature, being what it is, we gripe when we see it in an annual bill -- where, otherwise, we never thought about the tax added at the gas pumps.