Iowa Code § 321.116
Battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric motor vehicle fees
Redline — January 1, 2012 → current.View current text →
Current — January 1, 2025
As of January 1, 2012
For an electric motor vehicle the annual fee is twenty-five dollars. However, if an electric motor vehicle is more than five model years old, the annual registration fee is fifteen dollars. This section does not apply to low-speed vehicles that are electric.
82 Acts, ch 1062, §16, 38; 84 Acts, ch 1067, §32; 2000 Acts, ch 1005, §3
Referred to in
1. For each battery electric motor vehicle subject to an annual registration fee under section 321.109, subsection 1, paragraph “a”, and operated on the public highways of this state, the owner shall pay an annual battery electric motor vehicle registration fee, which shall be in addition to the annual registration fee imposed for the vehicle under section 321.109, subsection 1, paragraph “a”. For purposes of this subsection, “battery electric motor vehicle” means a motor vehicle equipped with electrical drivetrain components and not equipped with an internal combustion engine, that is propelled exclusively by one or more electrical motors using electrical energy stored in a battery or other energy storage device that can be recharged by plugging into an electrical outlet or electric vehicle charging station. The amount of the fee shall be one hundred thirty dollars.
2. For each plug-in hybrid electric motor vehicle subject to an annual registration fee under section 321.109, subsection 1, paragraph “a”, and operated on the public highways of this state, the owner shall pay an annual plug-in hybrid electric motor vehicle registration fee, which shall be in addition to the annual registration fee imposed for the vehicle under section 321.109, subsection 1, paragraph “a”. For purposes of this subsection, “plug-in hybrid electric motor vehicle” means a motor vehicle equipped with electrical drivetrain components, an internal combustion engine, and a battery or other energy storage device that can be recharged by plugging into an electrical outlet or electric vehicle charging station. The amount of the fee shall be sixty-five dollars.
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