California's electric bike voucher program was met with overwhelming demand, with all 1,500 vouchers being claimed within 45 minutes of the launch.
Earlier this month, California launched a program offering vouchers for electric bikes . KPBS metro reporter Andrew Bowen says the vouchers were exhausted in a matter of minutes. The program, offering low-income California ns up to $2,000 off the cost of an electric bike, ran out of vouchers less than an hour after its launch earlier this month. The program, funded by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), is intended to help the state reduce car travel and greenhouse gas emissions.
It began accepting applications at 6 p.m. on Dec. 18, but the application portal was closed only 45 minutes later after all 1,500 vouchers were allocated. 'The first round of the launch points to an incredible demand for alternative forms of transportation and a willingness to use cleaner mobility options,' CARB spokesperson Lys Mendez said in a statement. 'We will be doing future rounds of vouchers, and next steps on that will be informed by the lessons learned from this first round.
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