{"id":277,"date":"2015-08-26T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/08\/26\/lege-trend-adjust-rebates-for-hybrids-welfare-for-tesla-drivers-4-points-to-know\/"},"modified":"2015-08-26T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T22:00:00","slug":"lege-trend-adjust-rebates-for-hybrids-welfare-for-tesla-drivers-4-points-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/lege-trend-adjust-rebates-for-hybrids-welfare-for-tesla-drivers-4-points-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege Trend: Adjust Rebates for Hybrids. Welfare for Tesla Drivers? 4 Points to Know."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California is limiting the rebate it gives for hybrids. If you earn more than $500,000 per year, no rebate for you! Tax groups label the rebate,\u00a0&#8220;welfare for the rich.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does California fund the electric car subsidies?<\/strong>\u00a0A surcharge on vehicle registration fees and a portion of the smog fee\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>California&#8217;s Policy Goal: <\/strong>Rapidly increase the percentage of zero-emission vehicles in the state<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the program cost so far?<\/strong>\u00a0$242 million in rebates awarded to 114,702 Californians, mostly in the L.A. area<\/p>\n<p><strong>What percentage of Teslas are in the mix?<\/strong> 15% of rebates go to Tesla owners<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/politics\/la-me-pol-electric-cars-20150824-story.html\">Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California is limiting the rebate it gives for hybrids. If you earn more than $500,000 per year, no rebate for you! Tax groups label the rebate,\u00a0&#8220;welfare for the rich.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does California fund the electric car subsidies?<\/strong>\u00a0A surcharge on vehicle registration fees and a portion of the smog fee\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>California&#8217;s Policy Goal: <\/strong>Rapidly increase the percentage of zero-emission vehicles in the state<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the program cost so far?<\/strong>\u00a0$242 million in rebates awarded to 114,702 Californians, mostly in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,17,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-motor-vehicles","category-regulatory-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}