Yes, California’s property tax is based on the purchase price of the property, or rather, the fair market of the property as determined by the assessor’s office. I.e you can’t sell a $2M property to your friend for $1M to help them avoid $10K in property taxes. But usually the fair market value is the purchase price. Property taxes do go up/down each year based on the fair market value, but increases are capped at a certain percentage for the owner. For instance if you bought the house for $333K, and 20 years later it is worth $1M your property taxes haven’t tripled from $3300 to $10K. Instead it would be more like $5K.
Everything I can find about DMV EV fees in CA says the EV fee is "up to $175" the other fees you've gotten are based on vehicle value whether gas or electric. The excess sounds like the "ad valorem tax" they used to charge in GA (which was a rip off). The EV reg fee in GA is $214.
this is what they're not saying. I've looked up online and most of the states have an ev fee of around $200 or less for non commercial vehicles. For the most part the people posting are rolling in fees and taxes that are charged to all non commercial road vehicles which is massively distorting the information.
Much of the $1300 fee for registration is Ownership Tax yes, but you can't renew your registration without paying that tax annually for 5-6 years after buying a car. It's about $1000 for tax and $300 of other fees including Bridge fee, road fee, and registration fees totalling about $300.
$350 ( 30 to register the rest is EV surcharges and vehicle weight fee) though there are areas of western Washington that are much higher. This is due to additional local taxes to pay for transit that car drivers don’t use. Go figure.
