Staffers estimate the rebate program will cost SDG&E ratepayers less than $1 per month
. “We have very stringent state goals established by the Air Resources Board to electrify medium- and heavy-duty trucks and they need charging infrastructure in order to electrify their fleets.”
Details of how the rebate program will work still need to be figured out. A study will be conducted to determine the size of the rebate and customers who want to install the equipment will apply to a third-party administrator to receive the rebate. The charging infrastructure for trucks will be installed at a variety of places, including truck stops, ports and at facilities owned by companies that manage fleets. Transit agency depots are also potential sites for buses.
The rebate program, approved Nov. 17 on a 4-0 vote, includes a provision that calls for an evaluation of the program and its funding amounts after three years. “Increasing electric rates to fund the state’s reduction initiatives, therefore, places a disproportionate burden on low-income families,” the paper said. “This is also counterproductive as this increases the cost of fueling electric vehicles, which in turn reduces the incentive to purchase electric vehicles.”for more than half of all of California’s carbon pollution, 80 percent of smog-forming pollution and 95 percent of toxic diesel emissions.
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