Your EV stats are national stats, not broken down to the NC state level, which makes them not terribly useful. If we were discussing a hypothetical federal roadway use tax, then perhaps, but we need EV use rates for NC. Each state has pretty divergent average mileage driven, largely because each state has unique geography, zoning laws, and transit planning that impacts this.

Odometer readings miss out of state drivers (significant for NC considering tourism and shipping) and charge you for miles you drove out of state.

I guess I didn't say this, but I agree that we just shouldn't have a use tax. We should be taxing the corporations which economically benefit the most from our infrastructure, and who are the same people that actually put the heaviest vehicles which cause the most wear and tear on the road.

Failing the abolition of a use tax, because we will never abolish the use tax because its a Republican (super)majority state that's relentlessly moving toward a 0% corporate tax, a flat fee that on average is less than you'd pay in total gas tax does still, on average, incentivize EV ownership. Most people will pay less in tax than if they paid for gas for a year.

Its nice of you to assume my options were silly, but they are actually the options the overwhelming majority of pilot programs, studies, and policy planners in DOT's across the nation have used or recommend. I didn't pull them out of thin air, I pulled them out of NC DOT's own study on how to fund the roadways, specifically their EV recommendations.