State Budget
This must be passed by midnight on June 15th.
What is pass the state budget?
Ranging from 173 to 53 pages, this document has been around for a whopping 17 years!
What is the Funding Plan?
This program's acronym sounds like it might electrocute you, but it actually helps low-income Californians replace batteries in used zero-emission vehicles.
What is the Zero-Emission Assurance Project?
Helping communities get around, this program works with HVIP to fund cars, vans and buses.
What is Clean Mobility Options?
Do you hear that leaf blower? Nope. That electric equipment was thanks to this program.
What is CORE Professional Landscaping
The Governor releases this in early January.
What is the proposed Budget?
This bill established the Air Quality Improvement Program.
What is Assembly Bill 118?
About 100,000 people attempted to get this voucher when the project opened, causing an uproar.
What is the E-bikes Incentive Project?
Educational elements for staff, students, and parents are included in this program focused on clean transportation around schools.
What is Clean Mobility in Schools?
This technology isn't eligible for on-road commercial incentives, even though it's part of our voucher program's name.
What are hybrids?
The Governor releases this in May.
What is the May Revise?
These three groups are collectively known as "priority populations," ensuring climate investments don't leave anyone in the pollution dust.
What are disadvantaged communities, low-income communities, and low-income households?
This program's name may suggest vehicles are taking showers, but it actually helps priority populations in the 5 major air districts access cleaner transportation.
What is Clean Cars 4 All?
The formal name for CARB's mobility projects is this tongue-twister that's easier to say after three cups of coffee.
What are the Sustainable Community-Based Transportation Equity Incentive Projects?
If your company has questions about ZE trucks, don't phone a friend, call this service instead.
What is Cal Fleet Advisor?
These bills are usually hitched on to the budget bill after it’s passed. They may be cute but they’re not part of your family.
What are baby, junior, or trailer bills?
Andrea Morgan, Grace Garcia, and Stephanie Parent have all held this role.
What is the Funding Plan Lead?
Where can you get help figuring out which of our light duty purchase incentive projects you are eligible for?
What is Access Clean California?
This project type under the Mobility/Planning umbrella requires a community engagement process and can cost up to $100,000.
What is a community transportation needs assessment?
Making water on the water, this CARB-funded vessel was a world-first.
What is the Sea Change fuel cell ferry?
These dates mark the end of the 1st and 2nd years in the legislative session, respectively.
What are August 31 and September 15?
Ranging from $25M to $1,.5B, these amounts represent an annual budget.
What is the annual CTI budget?
In September 2024, Imperial Valley was the first to do this.
What is open for the statewide Driving Clean Assistance Program?
Money first actions later – a few years ago, this regulation reduced barriers to implementing projects for some of our grantees. Unfortunately, we still can’t do it for subgrantees (which they hate).
What is Advance Pay?
Scandal ensued when it was discovered that the trucks in this company's promo videos weren't moving under their own power.
What is Nikola?