Continuous or short term reporting is a privacy issue. It can go a long way toward monitoring where someone is going all the time. Definitely something to be avoided.

While the trickle charging idea might sound good, there is no requirement to use a charger and many people do not. This seems like the biggest gap of any option. And even with public chargers, the infrastructure act charger funding included provisions that you can pay with cash, no account required. Those chargers would intentionally not have a way to track.

Reporting at annual inspection

• uses a mechanism that already exists (in most states)
• is not a privacy concern (an annual total gives no info about where you’ve been)
• already has incentives against cheating
• even if you cut your taxes with fraudulent reporting, it just makes next years even bigger, or will come out when you try to sell