California E-Bike Incentive Project: $2,000

[Logic11]

E-bike incentive vouchers for income qualified Californians - California E-Bike Incentive Project

The California E-Bike Incentive Project provides up-to $2,000 in incentive vouchers for the purchase of a new electric bike (e-bike).

www.ebikeincentives.org

This seems to be or have been a way to get $2,000 off the cost of an E-bike!?
I'm surprised it's not already being discussed.
What other incentives may be 'out there' that no-on here's aware of..??

I wish there was something like this here!

 

[2old]

They had 100,000 applicants and funds for 1,500 (AFAICT), so the chances of success were slim. As usual here, lots of show, little go.

 

[marvin78]

Not ( sadly ) for consumers, but if you buy an ebike for your business there are a lot of ways you can deduct parts of it from your taxes ( in The Netherlands ).

More so, they point out that even a bike which you only use for 10% 'business related' trips, would fall under those regulations.

Zzp en zakelijke fiets of e-bike; de (belasting)voordelen | ZZP Nederland

Omdat de Nederlandse wegen steeds vaker vast staan, wordt de fiets vaker gekozen als het vervoersmiddel om naar het werk te gaan. Of het dan gaat om een ‘gewone’ fiets of een e-bike; in alle gevallen zijn er belastingvoordelen te behalen.

www.zzp-nederland.nl

There are also incentives which cause the percentages you can deduct off e-cargobikes to be double that off normal ebikes, because they want to promote the use of cargo ebikes for small businesses.

Many of the bigger cities have subsidies you can apply for as consumer, Amsterdam/Rotterdam/Utrecht just to name a few. They range from ~400 to ~600 so it's no 2k.

they had 100,000 applicants and funds for 1,500 (AFAICT), so the chances of success were slim. As usual here, lots of show, little go.

1500 is a laughable number, atrocious.

 

[biphaeboh]

1500 is a laughable number, atrocious.

40 million people in California.

 

[marvin78]

Some of the grants available in our cities had comparable limits... but there are far less people living there.

As I said, it's literally atrocious, it's not even neutral it's just virtue signaling so politicians can claim they do something for the environment. Or that they can claim that 'despite our extensive stimulation packages, there is no desernable results in traffic flows'.


Which is what 1500 'new people on ebikes' would do -> nothing.

 

[neptronix]

Yep. Politics are still dumb.