Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach Fund Nearly 800 Drayage Trucks through HVIP
October 18, 2024
Initial $60 million in HVIP-stacked incentives has been fully subscribed; HVIP funds are still available, and additional Port funds may be announced later this year.
Since November 2023, the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) and the Port of Long Beach (POLB) have partnered with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to rapidly increase deployments of zero-emission drayage trucks at the nation’s busiest port complex.
Through the ports’ Clean Truck Fund, POLA and POLB invested a combined $60 million in point-of-sale purchase incentives via CARB’s Clean Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP), leveraging the streamlined voucher management processes administered for HVIP by CALSTART. Port incentives were $100,000 per truck for fleets size 20 and smaller and $75,000 per truck for fleets larger than 20, in addition to the existing HVIP drayage voucher amount of $150,000 per truck.
Although more than $50 million still remains to be requested via HVIP’s Drayage Truck Set-Aside, voucher enhancements funded by the Ports have now been fully subscribed, and as such, the Ports' stacked incentive program has been closed. Additional Port funds may be announced later this year.For more information, contact [email protected]. For ongoing updates about available HVIP drayage funds and other types of HVIP incentives, visit californiahvip.org/funding.
About the Port of Los Angeles
The Port of Los Angeles is North America’s leading trade gateway and has ranked as the No. 1 container port in the United States for 24 consecutive years. In 2023, the Port generated $292 billion in trade and handled a total of 8.6 million container units, sustaining its top rank among U.S. ports. The Port remains focused on community investment, commitment to sustainability and environmental leadership, workforce development, and infrastructure improvement. San Pedro Bay port complex operations and commerce facilitate one in nine jobs across the Southern California counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura.
About the Port of Long Beach
The Port of Long Beach is a global leader in green port initiatives and top-notch customer service, moving cargo with reliability, speed and efficiency. As the premier U.S. gateway for trans-Pacific trade, the Port handles trade valued at $200 billion annually and supports 2.6 million jobs across the United States, including 575,000 in Southern California. In 2024, industry leaders named it “The Best West Coast Seaport in North America” for the sixth consecutive year. During the next 10 years, the Port is planning $2.3 billion in capital improvements aimed at enhancing capacity, competitiveness and sustainability
HVIP Public School Bus Set-Aside & EnergIIZE Infrastructure Joint Application Closes on Dec. 15
The HVIP Public School Bus Set-Aside & EnergIIZE – Joint Application will close on December 15, 2023, at 5:00 pm Pacific Time. The Joint Application offers funding for zero-emission school buses, including funding for the installation of charging infrastructure to help power your new zero-emission school buses. The Joint Application is currently open on a first-come, first-served basis, all applications are being reviewed for funding in the order they are received.
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Eligible applicants interested in applying should be prepared to provide the following at time of application:
- A Letter of Intent. A template can be found here: Letter of Intent Template
- A copy of the DMV registration for each old school bus included on the application
- Preliminary information regarding existing and planned charging infrastructure
The Joint Application offers funding for school districts, and other eligible entities, located in small and medium air districts. Participation in the HVIP Public School Bus Set-Aside requires the scrappage of an eligible old school bus for each new school bus that is awarded. Old school bus eligibility requirements can be found under “Old School Bus Scrappage Requirements” in the Public School Bus Set-Aside Appendix G Implementation Manual at: https://californiahvip.org/SchoolBus.
EnergIIZE funds are intended to cover up to but no more than 100 percent of per item costs, with a maximum infrastructure project cap of $275,000. See full list of eligible project costs in the EnergIIZE Public School Bus Set-Aside Implementation Manual Addendum.
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Small and Public Fleet Reserve / Drayage Reserve
November 1, 2023
HVIP funding is currently available for fleets of all sizes. Per the FY 22-23 Funding Plan for Clean Transportation Incentives, 70 percent of HVIP Standard and the Drayage set-aside funding was initially reserved for public fleets and for private fleets size 100 or smaller. Since more than $100 million remained in the reserve on July 1, 2023, HVIP released 30% of the remaining funding to private fleets with more than 100 vehicles.
Since funding remained in the reserve on November 1, 2023, all remaining HVIP standard funding and drayage set-aside funding is now available to private fleets with more than 100 vehicles. Available funds are updated daily at www.CaliforniaHVIP.org.
Voucher requests will continue as normal; the Reserve has no impact on the voucher request process, and dealers should continue to request vouchers as normal. The Reserve only applies to the FY 22-23 allocation.
HVIP Completes Successful Relaunch and Remains Open - Continue to Apply Today!
Funding summaries by category are now available on the Funding Page.
HVIP re-opened to voucher requests at 10:00 a.m. Pacific on March 30, 2022.
HVIP still remains open for all voucher requests, including standard HVIP funds, and the set-asides for transit and school buses. While funds specifically set aside for drayage trucks have been fully subscribed, requests for drayage and all class 8 tractors will continue to be accepted and funded out of standard HVIP funds as described below.
In total, nearly $430 million was made available, and in the first 24 hours, a cumulative total of $272 million was requested across standard HVIP funds and the set-asides for drayage trucks, transit, and school buses. All requests are being funded based on timestamp without the need for a randomization process.
Dealers and purchasers have now been notified about funding being set aside for vouchers submitted during the first 24 hours. If you have voucher-specific questions, please contact [email protected].
Funding status confirmations will continue to be sent as more voucher requests come in; requests are first-come, first-served except for the Public School Bus Set-Aside for Small and Medium Air Districts.
Please note that the Public School Bus Set-Aside for Small and Medium Air Districts has a 90-day application window, the first day of which was March 30, with specific prioritization criteria during that timeline for disadvantaged communities. More details are at californiahvip.org/purchasers/#SchoolBus including upcoming training opportunities for dealers and purchasers.
An additional set-aside, the Innovative Small E-Fleets project, will open later this year with differing rules and structure than all other HVIP funding categories. Please see more details at californiahvip.org/purchasers and contact [email protected].
Funding updates will continue to be posted at californiahvip.org - including data about voucher requests.
Interested in Infrastructure Incentives?
The California Energy Commission's EnergIIZE Commercial Vehicles Project for medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission infrastructure has funding available for HVIP-funded vehicles! More details will be announced soon. If you are participating in the School Bus Set-Aside for Small and Medium Air Districts, EnergIIZE may be able to work with you to provide infrastructure funding and technical assistance. For other HVIP-funded vehicles, infrastructure funds are not set-aside specifically, but still are available via EnergIIZE Funding Lanes. Visit www.EnergIIZE.org to learn more.
Posted 3/31/2022
Carl Moyer On-Road VIP Update
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has announced updates to the Carl Moyer Voucher Incentive Program (VIP). Funding through this program is directed exclusively to small fleets with 10 vehicles or less, where eligible applicants can receive grants to purchase cleaner replacement vehicles. Applications are reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis, and applicants are notified within 15 business days upon receipt of their application.
VIP has traditionally supported the transition of small fleets to the 2010 engine model year emission standard per the Truck and Bus Regulation. As the final implementation deadline approaches for the Truck and Bus Regulation, this will be the last year of Moyer, or VIP, eligibility for fleets to move to an engine meeting the 0.2 gram per brake-horsepower-hour (g/bhp-hr) oxides of nitrogen (NOx) standard. This year, eligible applicants can continue to receive up to $60,000 for replacements meeting the 0.2 g/bhp-hr NOx standard. In this year’s update, CARB is expanding VIP to allow additional funding for replacement vehicles meeting the 0.02 g/bh-hr NOx standard or cleaner, including zero emissions, up to $100,000 per vehicle. The inclusion of zero emission vehicles aligns with Governor Newsom’s Executive Order N-79-20, which sets the goal of 100 percent of medium, and heavy-duty vehicles in the State be zero-emission by 2045 for all operations where feasible, and by 2035 for drayage trucks.
More information can be found in the email announcement and on CARB's website.
Posted 3/5/2021