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California EV rebate demand exceeds CVRP funding; rebates have gone to nearly 65% of all California EV owners

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Since 2016, when the project instituted caps for higher-income applicants and created increased rebates for lower income-qualified consumers, 34% of rebate funding, or $182.9 Electric vehicles (EVs) account for nearly 8% of all light-duty vehicles sold in California. —CARB Executive Officer Richard W.

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California cap-and-trade spending doubles to $1.4 billion in 2018; xEV rebates, affordable housing, wildfire prevention, public transit

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From rebates for electric and plug-in vehicles to energy efficiency and solar installations that are reducing home energy costs, more than 125,000 individual projects were completed in 2018. billion in new funding last year went to projects across all of California’s 58 counties—almost double the $720 million spent in 2017. To date, $9.3

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California ARB holding two workshops on developing measure to reduce emissions from TRUs

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At the upcoming workshop, ARB staff will discuss preliminary concepts developed since the first workshop in April 2016. The first upcoming workshop will be 16 August in Sacramento, the second on 18 August in Riverside. TRUs and TRU gensets emit diesel PM, NO x , greenhouse gases and other pollutants. Background.

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Use These Exciting EV Charging Incentives to Fund Your Commercial Charging Station

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There are billions of dollars of electric vehicle (EV) charging incentives throughout the United States. These incentives are offered by the federal government, state governments, local jurisdictions, and electric utility companies in hopes of boosting the installation volume of EV chargers across the nation. Source: Alternative Fuels Data Center.

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EVgo fast charges 40M miles of EV driving in US in 2017

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EVgo’s US network of DC fast chargers provided 40 million miles of electric driving in 2017; in 2016, the figure was 22 million EV miles. million charging sessions, an increase of 50% over 2016, equal to 28 million minutes of DC fast charging, an average of 25 minutes per session. Network usage set a record with 1.1

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California ARB holding hearing on adopting amendments to LEV III to support compliance options using new Federal GHG regulations

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The California Air Resources Board (ARB or Board) will conduct a public hearing on 15 November in Sacramento to consider adopting amendments to the Low-Emission Vehicle (LEV III) greenhouse gas emissions standards, and additional minor revisions to the LEV III criteria pollutant and Zero-Emission Vehicle (ZEV) regulations, approved by the.