Alex Maloof, owner of Cafe Alejandro, is among the first food truck owners to transition to electric power through a new initiative called 'Engines Off for Food Trucks'. This program offers up to $20,000 to food truck owners to help them purchase electric power systems, with the state covering 80% of the cost.
If you've stood in line to order from a food truck, you know what it's like to shout over a noisy gas-powered generator.'What's that? What would you like to order?' said Alex Maloof, owner of Cafe Alejandro .The experience of ordering a mocha from Cafe Alejandro was no different until this month.'When I'm in here doing all this stuff, it's not this super loud freight train behind me. It's just the batteries purring away. Amazing,' said Maloof.
'Even though that was still hard to come up with the extra 20%, there was no chance I was not going to do this because it was the opportunity to get this system,' said Maloof.A spokesperson for the Regional Air Quality Council, David Sabados, said the goal is to convert 100 mobile businesses within the next two years.While this won't fix the air quality issues along the Front Range, he said it's a small step toward reducing pollution.
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