The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality is offering an incentive for organizations to purchase electric heavy duty vehicles.
ADEQ is launching a pilot program for Heavy Duty Zero Emissions Vehicles, like the trucks you might see delivering food to local grocery stores.
Sarah Fitzgerald is a unit manager in Vehicle Emissions Control. She said the department is offering $50,000 rebates to 20 eligible organizations that purchase qualifying all-battery electric heavy duty vehicles.
“By encouraging businesses to transition to a zero-emissions vehicle, it’s better for the air quality," Fitzgerald said. "It’s better for the air that we all breathe in the state of Arizona.”
In 2024, a bill in the state Legislature granted ADEQ $1 million for the project.
Applications open March 3 and close June 15. If the project does well, ADEQ may consider expanding the opportunity.
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