Riverside, CA : $2,500 incentive for Hybrids and EVs

[evnow]

A GM dealer in gm-volt has posted this.

Anyone from Riverside, CA ?

http://gm-volt.com/2010/09/27/gm-patent-application-may-be-for-the-chevrolet-volts-transmission/

I just got off the phone with one of my early Volt Customers who said that our fair city has approved a $2,500 Incentive.

Update: I spoke to a member of the City Council, and it is TRUE, they approved a cash incentive for Individuals (no fleet sales) to get $2,000 if they buy a Hybrid or an Electric Car from a dealer in our city.

This applies to Nissan Leaf, Chevy Volt, Toyota Prius, GEM, Lexus, Honda, Mercedes, and any other Electric or Hybrid vehicle on the market from a mainstream manufacturer. I think everyone should give a call to their City Councilman and see what your town is doing to promote “Green Vehicles”…!

How cool is that?!!!!

 

[smkettner]

http://www.riversideca.gov/air/alternativefuel.asp

 

[garygid]

$2000 and not $2500?

Hybrid, but not EVs, not clear?

Residents of Riverside buy, not "anybody" buy from Riverside Dealer?

 

[Jimmydreams]

"Which Vehicles Qualify for the Rebate?
In order to qualify for the rebate a vehicle must be purchased from a City of Riverside automobile dealership authorized to do business within the City and fueled exclusively by natural gas or be a gasoline-hybrid which meets the following criteria:"

Nice. Exclude the REALLY clean vehicles....(insert Homer Simpson "DOH!" here)

 

[Coffee_Slurry]

"The applicant and recipient shall be a resident of the City of Riverside and be able to provide proof of residency at the time of rebate application submittal."

Need one of these for San Diego.

 

[aswillis]

Electric vehicles do apply for this rebate

The rebate information is pretty clearly laid out here: http://energycenter.org/index.php/i...:vehicleinfrastructure-rebates-and-incentives

 

[DaveinOlyWA]

i lived in Riverside for 6 years right after i got out of the air force (stationed at March) and this was early 80's before CARB started cracking down. one year i remember (i believe it was 1982??) we had a few stage 3 smog alerts and a few dozen stage 2's. i used to climb Box Springs Mountain ( a radio hill really) and on bad days i could not see the city 1500 feet below me. on good days i could see the 215/10 Freeway 10 miles away.

if there was ever an area that needed incentives for clean, the Inland Empire is definitely it

 

[Leland]

To get this rebate you need to live in the city of Riverside and buy from Raceway Nissan or Riverside Nissan. I swore off pretty much all car dealerships in Riverside after every attempt to purchase a car in this city turned into a price gouge fest. Back in 2001 when I was shopping for a 2001 Mustang Cobra, Raceway Ford in Riverside wanted $5k over MSRP. Chino Hills Ford got MSRP -$500. I had similar experiences when going to buy a 2008 M3 $15k over at BMW of Riverside and a 2008 Charger R/T MSRP -$2500 at Moss Bros Dodge in Riverside. Cerritos Dodge did MSRP -$9500 and 0% APR. Once I saw Fontana Nissan doing MSRP -$1000 it was a no brainer to change the dealer on my dashboard!