Category: EV Policy

CO Legislators Need to Hear From You Today, Sunday 3/8/20, or Monday morning – And Insight from CO Senators Against the EV Bill.

Two bills to speak up on here. Sorry for the late notice! One is HB 20-1155, which requires home builders to offer buyers of newly constructed homes options to install electric wiring for EV chargers and solar. No one is making anyone actually DO anything – just making sure buyers …

EV Direct to Customer Sales in CO, SB20-167, Comment TODAY, or tomorrow morning :-)

Your comment to your state senator (For those in SW Colorado, our state senator is Don Coram, and you can email him at: don.coram.senate@state.co.us) IS NEEDED BEFORE 10 AM tomorrow (Monday, February 24). Mr. Coram has voted against state EV legislation in the past. Please send him a note to …

Novel Colorado legislation would allow direct-to-consumer sales of BEVs

Tesla is already doing this, but apparently there is a general prohibition against direct-to-consumer sales of cars that new Colorado legislation would alleviate, but only for BEVs. This may be a response to recent opposition of the car dealers (and support by the car manufacturers) to Colorado’s Zero-emission Vehicle standard. …

Federal tax credit reinstated for 2018-2020 EV purchases and chargers

Current EVents (Jan 2020, the magazine of the Electric Auto Association) reported: Receive a federal tax credit of 30% of the cost of purchasing and installing an EV charging station (up to $1,000 for residential installations and up to $30,000 for commercial installations) with this retroactive credit. Previously, this federal …