Officials with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District announced Wednesday that the organization will relaunch its program to financially support residents in polluted areas seeking to buy a clean air vehicle.
More than $8 million will be available via the Clean Cars for All program for residents living in parts of the Bay Area that are disproportionately affected by air pollution and drive vehicles made before 2006 that worsen the region’s air quality.
Qualified residents can receive up to $9,500 to purchase a new or used hybrid, electric or fuel cell vehicle, a transit card or an e-bike. The program will also offer grants of up to $2,000 to buy at-home charging equipment and have it installed.
“Not only is transportation the largest source of air pollution in the region, it accounts for 40 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions,” Santa Clara County Supervisor and BAAQMD Board Chair Cindy Chavez said, adding that more than 90 percent of Californians live in areas with unhealthy air quality.
The BAAQMD originally launched the Clean Cars for All program in March 2019 and recently received $8.33 million from the California Air Resources Board to allocate toward the program.
To be eligible, applicants must have a household income below $51,000 for a single person or below $106,000 for a family of four; a car, truck or sports utility vehicle that weighs under 10,000 pounds and is model year 2005 or older; and the vehicle must have been registered in California for at least two years.
Eligible Bay Area residents can visit www.baaqmd.gov/cleancarsforall for information about how to apply for the program.
13 comments
As if they can’t find enough ways to spend our tax dollars.
I hate these give away programs.
They don’t tell people about the insurance increases and license fees.
The benefits to the air will be negligible at best.
It’s amazing how this jackass organization can give out all this money. I guess the have to work overtime to sell their products to get the revenue.
Thats the money they took from us they are handing out. Buying votes by the billions.
“Clean cars for all”. Unless you make over $51,000. What a joke. Make it available to everyone. Either way it’ll be the same amount of electric cars on the road regardless of who buys it.
the party of free stuff at it again…free phones, free child care, free advanced education, now money for their cars……oh and thats after the free money they get for not working
Why isn’t this money going toward protected bike lanes, pedestrian over crossings, and other infrastructure aimed at getting people out of their vehicles?
Eh, this will objectively lead to local improvements in air quality. Incentivizing (massively) people to trade in a 12-20mpg 20 year old car for a 35+MPG newer car isn’t THAT insane an idea. There will also be fewer deaths due to increased safety.
Wonder if they’d let you get an electric motorcycle like a Zero with the rebate.
Given that SF spends $60,000 per homeless tent, and California probably gives tens of thousands to each illegal alien every year, why not help put some real citizens into a safer, nicer ride?
Maybe this gets some of those horribly stinky, dangerously polluting 80s diesels off the road when their owners trade up to an electric F150.
Redistribution for social engineering. Once they have everybody with e-cars, and the power grids get blown out, will they provide tax payers’ money to buy horses, or just plain old bicycles? This would be comical if it wasn’t so darned expensive….
I wonder how much it costs one to charge an electric vehicle at their own home overnight..For some odd reason that is never mentioned.
Or how the mileage is cut down when driving up hills or towing something. That is also never mentioned. About the only thing about these glorified golf carts is how fast they can accelerate….now how fast are we allowed to drive on the freeways these day?
If these things were so popular there would be no subsidies to get you to buy one……
Well shucks buddy, let me answer some of those questions for ya!
It costs roughly $10.50 to charge a Tesla Model S, which then goes approximately 410 miles! It would take 20.5 gallons and cost ~$4.30 per gallon for my car to do the same distance, or roughly $90, at 20mpg.
Of course the mileage goes down when going up hill. That is true of any conventional internal combustion engine, too. Duh. It’s true of a donkey, dog or human being, as well – you’ll expend more calories going up a hill than on the flat. The IC engine will consume more gas going uphill than on the flat.
If you were towing a very serious load you could expect as little as half that range. If it were very cold outside you could expect both reduced range and power, some people say they get 40% less range when it’s freezing out.
Now if you really want to poke a hole in the electric car for everyone fantasy, it is that the current power grids cannot hope to accommodate every person charging their electric car every night.
The reason subsidies are necessary in some peoples’ eyes is that the initial purchase cost is so much higher than comparable conventional IC engined cars, due to massive cost of batteries. So high that you won’t make your money back for 10+ years and 150,000 miles or something like that. So without subsidies it remains the domain of the wealthy who can pay more initially and afford to make the money back over time.
So something that Anon didn’t mention is it also depends how much you drive. You don’t want to over charge them because if you do. It can make the battery not last as long. Some go a few days with out a charge. Some can go close to a week. It can be for a full charge. $15-$20 per charge as it depends on your electric bill charge. Also, you get money every year on your taxes. It’s more money up front but cheaper in the long run.
Anon….
I go to Oregon now & then to see some family members and the trip is 10 hrs one way…..The gasoline for the trip is sometimes fairly high, but I can fill up and be on my way within 20 min………your T will be sitting someplace for hours charging..Guess it would be smart to carry a generator in the trunk eh?
Stuck on the road with no juice? What then…….
That is a fair point, but the answer for you was made by Chevy and it was called the Volt. It has a gas engine that will happily burn gas to power the electric batteries which then power the electric motor, when it has depleted those batteries. There is a gentleman who made the news a few years back when he put on 400,000+ miles on his first generation, and it was still going very strong and was a reliable vehicle. Odd for a modern Chevy, I know.
Sadly that technology died with the volt. Chevy tried to license it out and no one wanted it. There is no current electric car with a gasoline or diesel generator being sold, to my knowledge.
Ofc the fast charging stations keep getting faster and faster.
OFC you may be cut off from that charging network if you upset Tesla or another company. Some guy on youtube restored a totaled Tesla and after figuring out what was going on, Tesla cut him off.
Comments are closed.