dlich18
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Good job CCSE! A beacon of bright light in a sea of confusion.
Where did you get the extra $71? :lol:
Where did you get the extra $71? :lol:
How many applications have been rejected so far? I am on the waiting list and am still holding out hope that I may still get the full rebate amount if enough people ahead of me get rejected.Center4Energy said:Hello All,
Yesterday I received an email from a new LEAF driver that prompted this post. The new driver was concerned about the potential for consumers to apply for a CVRP rebate before they purchase the vehicle, and thus jump ahead of individuals that have followed the rules of the CVRP. I want to assure all of you that CCSE will do everything in our power to ensure this does not happen.
We have and will continue to audit each rebate application very closely. In fact we have recently canceled applications for individuals that have not followed the rules, just by reviewing the online application step. Each application will also undergo closer scrutiny as we check, and double check the sales and lease contract to ensure the applications are showing the correct information.
On another note, I want to address this issue of $71 dollars. I heard through the grapevine that there was this idea floating around that CCSE was holding the last rebate because we were $71 dollars short of $5000. This is completely untrue. We are $71 short of $5000, but that will not hold up that last rebate. The way the program is structured, we have some vehicles that receive an uneven rebate amount (e.g. NEVs), as the rebate amount is based on the MSRP which results in the program resulting in $4929 when all is said and done, not $5000.
CCSE will provide $71 for this rebate so that the applicant gets a full rebate check. So if you hear from someone that CCSE is withholding a rebate because of being $71 short of $5000, please inform them that this is certainly not the case.
Before I sign off, I would like to ask everyone to please be patient with us as we work through all of this paper work. That being said if you need further clarification or additional information, we are always available.
Best,
David Almeida
[email protected]
858.244.1190
Kyle Goedert
kyle.goedert.energycenter.org
858.244.4877
No, but I sent Kyle an email about it yesterday as it's been a couple weeks - said mine should have been mailed out today.kieodadie said:Has anyone gotten their rebate yet especially if your delivery date was in the month of June?
Huh? That's exactly why they lowered the incentive...so that more people could benefit.zhengst said:Therefore a more modest $1k (no more than$2k) per car incentive will go much longer way in reaching out to the less-motivated potential buyers than the $5k incentive.
Yet another example showing the policy makers lack basic economic sense and inefficient use of tax-payer dollars.
zhengst said:For most of us first adopters, we would have purchased the car regardless of the CA incentive.
davewill said:Huh? That's exactly why they lowered the incentive...so that more people could benefit.zhengst said:Therefore a more modest $1k (no more than$2k) per car incentive will go much longer way in reaching out to the less-motivated potential buyers than the $5k incentive.
Yet another example showing the policy makers lack basic economic sense and inefficient use of tax-payer dollars.
zhengst said:For most of us first adopters, we would have purchased the car regardless of the CA incentive. (Per recent Nissan data, average annual income of the Leaf owners is $140k.)
I credit the initial, higher rebate with a big jumpstart of EVs in California. You're welcome to your opinion that the money would be better spent elsewhere, but I personally think the money has been handled pretty well.zhengst said:Yeah. Exactly what I'm talking about. After millions of dollars, they finally learned. So taxpayers ended up paying for their learning process? I would rather them giving the money to the universities where it can help educate young people to be more useful citizens than those bureaucrats.
+1davewill said:I personally think the money has been handled pretty well.
AFAIK, anyone who didn't get the $5,000 is in line for $2,500, still a significant rebate any way you look at it. I'm not sure just who it is that had money just burning a hole in their pocket to buy one sans rebate, but it's not very many of us. Sure, Nissan would have sold all the cars they built so far, but many more of them would have sold outside California, and the demand might have been tapering off by now.zhengst said:On the individual level, the program worked out well for those who got the money (not a lot of them), not for those who didn't (quite a lot)...
This is so true.zhengst said:On the individual level, the program worked out well for those who got the money (not a lot of them), not for those who didn't (quite a lot). The root of the problem is, unlike the federal incentive, the CA program fund is really really limited. All in all it funded around 2,000 cars. That's a tiny drop of water in the ocean of California cars....
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