walterbays
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pkeys said:Great to see this thread, I've been thinking that the fund may be exhausted by the time I get my order in. Now, at least I have a bit of hope.
At the Street Smart event, Mike Ferry of CCSE talked about that:
http://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1229&start=10
walterbays said:I went to two of the CCSE workshops and found them very useful. I believe the presentation slides will be posted later to the CCSE web site, http://energycenter.org . The CCSE presentation did the best job I've seen of explaining transportation energy issues, including tailpipe emissions versus smokestack emissions. CCSE also administers the California rebate program, and there was reassuring news on that front. There is still most of the $4M from 2009-10 left, and $5M is in the draft budget for 2010-11. So people really stand a very good chance of getting their rebates. Of course with the budget still not passed, and the politicians looking for any pot of money to raid, next year's amount could still be zeroed out. But - best news of all - even if that happens, early adopters will not lose out. In the old scheme, if money ran out, you bought, and later the program was funded again, you got nothing. All the new money went to new applicants. Now, whenever the program is funded you keep your place in line to receive the next check.