In the spirit of my eternal quest to bring you the information about every single rebate, tax credit, or advantage of hybrid car ownership comes this latest piece of news from Pennsylvania.

State authorities had been running a rebate scheme for hybrid car owners - however the budgeted amount was depleted by March of this year.

The legislature announced today that an additional 3 million dollars has been set aside to continue the rebate scheme. Importantly, people who purchased a vehicle during the suspension period will still be eligible to claim the rebate. Note that this rebate scheme is separate from the Federally funded grants for their shortlist of vehicles I blogged about earlier.

Information about the Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant can be found here (note that the website is out-of-date and doesn’t reflect the new grant information.

Application forms for the grant can be found here (may require a login)

Please don’t be shocked at the size of the guidelines (38 pages!!) The complexity for applying for these kind of grants for hybrid vehicle purchases is in my opinion a major barrier to ensuring greater uptake.

I don’t think it warrants a post of its own - but if anybody would like guidance in filling out the forms - drop me an email on mark.kitchener@gmail.com and I’ll be happy to help out.


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