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BC EV rebate to run out of money soon?
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verystandard
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Look earlier in this thread - someone emailed them and they said they would top it up before it runs out. That said it’s running out by Thursday or Friday so they better move fast...
Yeah they emailed me saying it would be topped up.. but of course with delivery in 3 weeks I’m pretty nervous anyways... the way government works it could just be someone forgets to forward an email and then ‘oops’ we didn’t get the fund topped up in time! “Darn.. too bad for those suckers who heard we would top it up!”
I spoke with Tesla today and they couldn’t commit to an amount for me to put on my bank draft for purchase, because of the uncertainty of the status of the CEV rebate.
So I contacted the government ministers office in charge of the cev program (ministry of energy and mines) to find out more details on the status of this top-up, as essentially the ministry has to transfer funds to the cevforbc organization. If you are also nervous about this, it might help for you to contact the ministers office yourself to enquire and express your concern, and to demonstrate that this is something that affects (x) number of people. Please remember to be nice! They were very quick to answer the phone, polite, and did commit to get back to me by tomorrow.
Honourable Michelle Mungall
Minister of Energy, Mines & Petroleum
PO Box 9060 Stn Prov Govt
Victoria, BC V8W 9E2
Send an e-mail to the Minister
Phone: 250 953-0900
So I contacted the government ministers office in charge of the cev program (ministry of energy and mines) to find out more details on the status of this top-up, as essentially the ministry has to transfer funds to the cevforbc organization. If you are also nervous about this, it might help for you to contact the ministers office yourself to enquire and express your concern, and to demonstrate that this is something that affects (x) number of people. Please remember to be nice! They were very quick to answer the phone, polite, and did commit to get back to me by tomorrow.
Honourable Michelle Mungall
Minister of Energy, Mines & Petroleum
PO Box 9060 Stn Prov Govt
Victoria, BC V8W 9E2
Send an e-mail to the Minister
Phone: 250 953-0900
When are you guys expecting your car? My delivery is now estimated to mid/end of June! It's going to be a nail biter to see if even the additional funds (assuming they are added) will last that long.
Had the chance to get a 2019 Leaf this week, and passed on it... hope I did the right thing.
Had the chance to get a 2019 Leaf this week, and passed on it... hope I did the right thing.
verystandard
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Either way you did the right thing by placing the order now. I ordered and deliver the car back at March this year and I missed out the federal incentive, the price reduction (SR+ with AP), as well as AP3.
pcons
M3 AWD+
Sleep easy my friend, you did the right thing regardless
While the leaf may have cost less in the long run, once you get your car you will appreciate the 'premium' you may (or may not) have paid for the model 3.
AdamMacDon
Member
There is also Twitter for the premier and the minister responsible for the environment.
Ernie Gorrie on Twitter
Ernie Gorrie on Twitter
Maybe leave the environment minister out of it because they have nothing to do with the CEV funding. Sure the environment is the reason for all this but I assure you the ministry of energy and mines is the one that is in charge of this program.
This is causing me significant stress.
I learned a lot on the phone today having spoken to Tesla, to the independent cevforbc administrators, and the ministry providing funding to the cevforbc program.
On the reserve fund I learned that once you have a vin and a deposit/purchase agreement, the manufacturer can reserve the funds, but only valid for 90 days!
Tesla chooses to only reserve funds about a week ahead of delivery. Let say there are 40 deliveries a day in BC times 6 days a week, that’s a theoretical 240 deliveries a week, corresponding to $1.2M of reserved funds. Since reserved funds are at about $9M right now that means that 7.8M in funds are reserved by other manufacturers. With rebates between $2500-$5000 that is 1500-3000 vehicles just by other manufacturers! I have very low confidence that in BC that many EV’s will be delivered in the next 90 days, so if reservations expire their funds go back into the pool.
Word from the ministry staff who returned my call is that they are working feverishly to replenish the fund before it runs out. So I’m still holding my breath a bit but I feel like things will work out all right in the end. They all (CEVFORBC staff and ministry staff) seem to be on the same page regarding replenishing the funding.
That's IS frustrating, so dealerships are hoarding the funds? If I understand correctly, the dealership can always sell the vehicle to another person if the initial buyer pulls out without any risks, since the funds are already registered under that VIN?
what's more frustrating is that tesla won't reserve funds for customers, leaving us hanging
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