Personally, the drivers in the USA are spoiled...big roads, frequently straight, cheap (by international standards) fuel is one reason why our cars were so big - it's a long ways to anywhere if you live say in most areas of the western part of the country - I'm talking easily 100-miles to the next town with any reasonable services. So, our cars evolved differently.
Most states and the federal fuel taxes have not changed as the vehicle fleet was mandated to become more efficient. So, we have lots more cars and trucks on the road, using less fuel per vehicle to travel those miles every year, and the net result is that the roads and bridges and support structures are wearing out, and there's not enough tax money to keep them repaired. Most people don't want to pay up front, they'd rather someone else foot the bill. But, in the end run, we end up spending as much or more on vehicle maintenance as we perform more alignments from the bumpy roads, and replace more tires (RFT as used on BMW's and some other brands may be worse at this than some, but I think a lot of it is people mod their vehicle or opt for VERY low profile tires/wheels for the look, rather than practicality) - all a result of that poor maintenance on the roads. So, if we actually paid more taxes on our fuel for our vehicles, and the government actually reserved that money for the roads rather than some other crisis, our roads would be better, our cars shocks, tires, springs, alignment maintenance wouldn't be as costly, and it would come out about the same...but, if you can afford to swap the vehicle when the warranty runs out, that cost gets passed onto the next person, not you.
IOW, we're not paying enough for our fuel in the USA...and, as a result, some places are experimenting with a fee per mile verses x-amount per gallon of fuel (especially important to recoup the cost of wear and tear on the roads from hybrid and EVs since they may never pay any taxes towards the roadways), and remove that tax at the pump I wouldn't be surprised if that becomes more common in the future, and with nav systems, they could apportion that to the state(s) you happen to be driving through, rather than just to where you have the vehicle registered (might be problematic in a place like New Hampshire, where a good portion of those living in the south may commute into Massachusetts to work!). But, fairer to the states that must shoulder the loads.
So, until that happens, there's a good incentive to buy a more efficient vehicle, whether battery powered or hybrid, or diesel (we in the USA get a very poor choice over the engines available elsewhere partly because our diesel, even with the lower sulphur mandated some years ago, is still much dirtier than that sold elsewhere in the world, at least in Europe).
