California Air Resources Board

Project Statistics

CARB’s Incentive Program Insights data dashboard allows for an interactive visualization of the overarching data on CVRP, as well as CARB’s other light duty incentive programs.

Through December 2023, CVRP has provided rebates for over 587,000 vehicles totaling over $1.46 billion since the project’s launch in 2010. Since March 2016, over 66,000 increased rebates have been issued to low-income consumers totaling over $354 million. About 71 percent of rebates issued went to BEVs, about 26 percent to PHEVs, and about 3 percent to FCEVs and zero-emission motorcycles.

Since 2013, CVRP has issued voluntary participant surveys in order to obtain additional data about participants, their experience with the program, and to better understand EV adoption in California. As this is a voluntary survey, there is no guarantee that the responses received will statistically represent program participants as a whole. To address this, a weighting system was applied to appropriately amplify or attenuate responses. The raking method was used to produce weights that make the results based upon the survey data representative of the program with respect to county, vehicle model, vehicle category, and whether the vehicle was purchased or leased. The raking method was used to illustrate the current demographic makeup of CVRP participants based on data obtained through voluntary surveys that were fielded in 2017-20 and best represent program participation since the inclusion of income eligibility criteria. Staff will update this information once the current edition of the survey is done being fielded. Survey data for CVRP is publicly available on the CVRP website's Rebate Survey Dashboard.

Estimated Program Benefits

More information is available on the California Climate Investments CVRP website.

Socioeconomic Benefits

In a continued effort to provide transparency and commitment to data, CARB is taking measures to improve data collection for the evaluation, analysis, and reporting of socioeconomic benefits for program participants. This includes an updated survey to provide for more streamlined data collection, analysis, and identification of benefits or areas for improvement. These surveys are self-reported by participants on improved access to employment and goods and services, reliability, and participant testimonials. The table below demonstrates relationships and metrics that these surveys will capture and quantify.

Participation Demographics

A Rebate Map, Rebate Statistics, and a Rebate Survey Dashboard for CVRP can be found on the Clean Vehicle Rebate website.