California Hybrid Truck, Bus Voucher Project Unveils Online Portal for Requesting $20M in Incentives for Heavy-Duty Hybrids
25 December 2009
A California project designed to spur the purchase and use of medium- and heavy-duty hybrids has officially launched with the unveiling of its informational website: www.californiahvip.org.
Californiahvip.org supports the California Hybrid Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP). It will provide all HVIP details and requirements, and be the electronic portal used in 2010 to request vouchers that help pay for hybrid trucks and buses.
HVIP is managed by CALSTART and sponsored by the California Air Resources Board (ARB). As part of the launch, CALSTART also announced that special HVIP training sessions for truck dealers and fleets will commence in January. The training will help dealers and fleets prepare for requesting vouchers. Details are on the website.
ARB created the nearly $20 million HVIP to speed the market introduction of low-emitting hybrid trucks and buses by reducing the up-front cost of these vehicles for fleets that purchase and operate them in California. The HVIP voucher is intended to reduce about half the incremental cost of purchasing hybrid heavy-duty trucks and buses.
The vouchers will be available starting at the end of January 2010 on a first-come, first-served basis to qualified dealers and their fleet customers. To qualify, dealers must successfully complete training and sign the Terms and Conditions. The vouchers will range from $10,000 to $45,000 and each fleet is limited to a maximum of 100 vouchers.
This is what it may take to move it off of dead stop. If you make it easy for businesses and individuals to make the move, the move is more likely to happen.
Posted by: SJC | 25 December 2009 at 09:49 AM
California is broke. SN wishes to furlough employees. And now it proposes vouchers for very expensive vehicles instead of paying state employees. SN and most other Californians seem to continue to believe that whilst Uranium is not part of the CO2 reduction formula, Handwavium is. Have most Califonians been to the Magic Castle and believed in every trick? ..HG..
Posted by: Henry Gibson | 03 January 2010 at 03:40 AM