Clean Truck Check
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California Air Resources Board Issues The Next Phase Of The Clean Truck Check Program Implementation Guidance

Senate Bill 210 (Leyva; Chapter 298, Statutes of 2019) directed CARB to develop and implement a comprehensive heavy-duty vehicle inspection and maintenance (HD I/M) regulation to ensure that vehicles’ emissions control systems are properly functioning when traveling on California’s roadways. The Board approved the regulation on December 9, 2021, with implementation to be phased inContinued

CARB Zero Emissions
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CARB Offers Cash Discounts For Zero-Emission Freight Vehicles

California plan offsets price of clean-burning terminal tractors, forklifts, cargo-handling equipment Freight and industrial vehicle buyers have already spent this year’s allotment of matching funds for certain categories of zero-emission, heavy-duty, off-road equipment, but plenty of money remains for forklifts and other models, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) said today. Originally intended only for freight-handling equipment, the department’s Clean Off-RoadContinued

Freight grant funding
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Now Open for Application: Zero-Emission Freight and Marine Statewide Grant Funding in California

Apply for Funding for the Following Equipment: Heavy-Duty Forklifts, Port Cargo Handling Equipment, Aircraft Ground Support Equipment, Marine Vessel Repower, and Shore Power for Unregulated Ocean-going Vessels Up to $20 million funding is now available Statewide through the VW Zero-Emission Freight and Marine (ZEFM) program. Applications are being accepted and reviewed on a first-come, first-served basisContinued

Freight Locomotive
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More than $70 Million In CORE Funding Incentives Have Been Claimed!

Don’t wait—CORE Project Vouchers are Provided on a First-Come, First-Served Basis!The Heavy-Duty Clean Off-Road Equipment (CORE) Voucher Incentive Project funding segment remains open. Incentives for large forklifts, cargo handling equipment, railcar movers and freight locomotives and more are still available! (The terminal tractor, transport refrigeration unit, and mobile power unit equipment categories are now oversubscribed and no longer available forContinued

Diesel Engine
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Biden-Harris Administration Announces Availability of $115 Million in Grants to Cut Harmful Diesel Engine Emissions

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $115 million in grant funding for projects that cut harmful pollution from the nation’s existing fleet of older diesel engines. Under the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) grant funding competition, EPA anticipates making 4-10 awards in each of EPA’s ten regions to eligible applicants. “ThroughoutContinued

Core program
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CORE Heavy-Duty Off-Road Equipment Funding Segment Now Open

Don’t wait—CORE Project Vouchers are Provided on a First-Come, First-Served Basis!Any heavy-duty off-road equipment purchaser in California can take advantage of the California CORE Project’s incentives. That means you can benefit from the $182 million appropriated to the fiscal year 22/23 funding lane. Check out the Eligible Equipment Catalog to see which equipment is rightContinued

CARB Comprimise
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CARB And Engine Manufacturers Compromise On Emissions Timing

  After months of acrimony between the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the Engine Manufacturers Association (EMA), the two have agreed to flexibly implement the state’s toughest-in-the-nation emissions rules — even if someone else sues to stop the regulations. The Advanced Clean Truck Rule, which would remove internal combustion engines from California roads byContinued

Heavy Duty Off Road Equipment
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Heavy-Duty Clean Off-Road Equipment Voucher Incentive Project (CORE)

Voucher Submittal Opening, July 18, 2023 The Fiscal Year 2022-23 Funding Plan for Clean Transportation Incentives allocated $182 million to the Clean Off-Road Equipment Voucher Incentive Program (CORE). CORE is intended to accelerate the adoption of cleaner, commercially available off-road technologies by providing a streamlined way for fleets ready to purchase specific zero-emission equipment. On July 18, 2023,Continued

San Fransisco
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California Bans New Diesel Trucks Effective 2036, A World First

The California Air Resources Board has voted unanimously to finalize its Advanced Clean Fleets rule, a massive new regulation on medium- and heavy-duty fleet vehicles that, among other things, requires all new medium- and heavy-duty vehicles sold or registered in the state of California to be zero-emission come 2036. The rule is a complement toContinued