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Utilize The ODOT Community Charging Rebate To Fund Your Oregon EV Charging Project

EV Match

For those in the Pacific Northwest, specifically the state of Oregon, the Plugging In Oregon Community Charging Rebate program through the Oregon Department of Transportation provides generous funding opportunities for qualifying parking sites and multi-family housing locations.

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Oregon passes electric-car purchase rebates up to $2,500; new EV fees delayed to 2020

Green Car Reports

It's taken a while, but Oregon will now have a state electric-car purchase incentive that largely matches those in its neighbor to the south, California. First discussed several years ago, the idea of a purchase rebate for cars that plug in hadn't made it through previous legislative sessions.

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EIA: California home to almost half of US plug-in electric vehicles

Green Car Congress

Total US sales of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs)—battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric—have increased in recent years, but still represent only about 0.7% However, the incentive does not apply to the purchase of PHEVs. of new vehicle sales in 2014 so far, up from 0.6% in 2013 and 0.4% sales and use tax.

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Oregon incentives to shift from hybrids to plug-ins

Plugs and Cars

Oregon's House has passed a bill to end the $1500 tax credit for conventional hybrid vehicles on the last day of 2009. After that point only plug-in vehicles qualify. House Bill 2180 , which passed overwhelmingly, Creates specific tax credit for purchasers of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and related equipment.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

Green Car Congress

Eligible projects included those that replace, rehabilitate, lease, and purchase buses and related equipment as well as projects to purchase, rehabilitate, construct or lease bus-related facilities, such as buildings for bus storage and maintenance. Fifty-one projects in 39 states will receive a share of the funding. City of Fairfield.

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Bolt EV road trip, electric vs electrified, truck emissions, Oregon incentive: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today, electric-car sales in Canada, a new purchase rebate in Oregon, the importance of heavy-truck emissions, an ambitious EV road trip, and a car that drove itself off its own production line. June's plug-in electric car sales for Canada are now in, and there's a new entrant that's soared to the top of the.

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EEI encourages utilities to spend at least 5% of fleet acquisition budgets on plug-ins

Green Car Congress

The paper encourages investor-owned electric utilities to meet an industry-wide goal to spend at least 5% of annual fleet acquisition budgets on plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and technologies. of the vehicles purchased by electric utilities in the last five years were equipped with plug-in technology. —EEI white paper.

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