What's New List Serve Post Display

What's New List Serve Post Display

Below is the List Serve Post you selected to display.
newsrel -- CARB approves $363 million plan that includes putting more clean vehicles in disadvantaged communities

Posted: 20 Oct 2016 16:38:34
Please consider the following news release from the California
Air Resources Board:

http://www.arb.ca.gov/newsrel/newsrelease.php?id=865

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 20, 2016

NEWS RELEASE 16-51a

CONTACT: 

Melanie Turner
(916) 322-2990
Melanie.turner@arb.ca.gov

Pamela Diaz
(916) 322-2990
pamela.diaz@arb.ca.gov



CARB approves $363 million plan that includes putting more clean
vehicles in disadvantaged communities


Investments will support low-carbon transportation, zero-emission
vehicles, scrap-and-replace pilot program


FRESNO - Today the California Air Resources Board adopted a
revised funding plan for proceeds from the cap-and-trade program
that includes putting more clean vehicles in disadvantaged
communities.  The investments range from supporting increased
numbers of zero-emission heavy-duty trucks and buses to rebates
for low- and zero-emission passenger vehicles.


“The  investment of $360 million from our cap-and-trade program
for these low-carbon transportation projects will continue to
drive the market for new technologies, and put more ultra-clean
and zero-emission trucks, buses and cars into the communities
throughout California that need them the most,” CARB Chair Mary
D. Nichols said. 


The revised plan for fiscal year 2016-17 keeps much of the
original funding plan (approved in June 2016) intact while
addressing the smaller budget appropriation of $363 million under
AB 1613 and additional direction from the Legislature. 


Key highlights of the revised plan include:

• $133 million to the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP), which
offers up to $5,000 in vehicle rebates for the purchase or lease
of new, eligible zero-emission and plug-in hybrid vehicles; 

• $80 million to light-duty vehicle pilot projects, including $60
million for air district-administered retire-and-replace pilot
projects (double the amount called for in the original funding
plan); and

• $150 million for a range of heavy-duty vehicle and off-road
equipment projects, including advanced technology demonstration
projects, and providing zero-emission buses for transit agencies
and rural school districts.

Investments in disadvantaged communities are designed to help
lower-income residents living in areas of California affected
most by air pollution afford the cleanest cars. The
scrap-and-replace pilot projects – replacing older and dirtier
cars with the very cleanest currently available -- have been
allocated $60 million, double the amount of funding in the
earlier Board-approved plan. That will ensure existing programs
in the San Joaquin Valley and South Coast air districts will have
funding beyond this fiscal year, and provides for the expansion
of similar programs to other interested air districts.


In addition, there is funding for other light-duty equity pilot
projects ranging from vanpools for agricultural workers in the
San Joaquin Valley, to financing assistance for lower-income
consumers looking to get into clean vehicles. 


The $133 million CVRP allocation, while less than the amount in
the earlier Board-approved Funding Plan, is expected to meet
demand through the fiscal year. (To date, the program has
provided more than 160,000 rebates since its start in 2010.) In
order to make clean vehicles more accessible to a greater number
of California drivers in communities that are highly impacted by
air pollution, the rebate project will amplify the increased
incentive levels for lower-income consumers by $500 and reduce
high-income eligibility caps, as directed by SB 859. The changes
apply statewide to consumers who purchase or lease
rebate-eligible vehicles, effective Nov. 1, 2016.


As for heavy-duty vehicles and off-road equipment, the modified
Funding Plan allocates $150 million for related projects, from a
voucher incentive project to encourage commercial deployment of
hybrid, low-NOx, and zero-emission trucks, buses and engines to
large-scale pilot projects that encourage the commercialization
of zero-emission trucks and buses. The Board also voted to
increase the maximum incentive amount for the Low NOx Engine
Incentives with Renewable Fuel to $25,000 per truck. In total,
these heavy-duty investments will bring the cleanest trucks and
buses to California’s most impacted communities, transportation
corridors, and freight hubs. 


For more information on these programs visit:
https://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/aqip/fundplan/fundplan.htm


For information on the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project visit:
https://cleanvehiclerebate.org/eng



California is in a drought emergency.
Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.

ARB What's New

preload