Category: EV Policy

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: [email protected]) 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 …

December 2019 EV Policy Updates

Utilities join CA & CO against plan to force states to abandon Zero Emission Vehicle Standards There is a very complicated legal fight underway pitting California against the Trump Administration (covered in: www.eenews.net/climatewire/2019/12/05/stories/1061727197). We have a dog in this fight because Colorado has chosen to follow the California rules on …