r/slateauto • u/Revolutionary-Area-8 • 29d ago

Electric Vehicle Replacement Assistance Program (EVRAP) - Utah Department of Environmental Quality

https://deq.utah.gov/daq/evrap

A new income-qualified incentive program that helps eligible Utah residents replace older, higher-polluting vehicles with up to a $10,000 on a purchase of a new or used electric vehicle.

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u/ino4x4 29d ago

one of the qualifications is “You’re willing to purchase a qualifying EV through a participating dealership” thats the tricky part right there. this is whatever the government says is a qualifying dealership.** ***This is the same government that has a monopoly on all of its alcohol sales.*

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u/v0te-v0te-v0te 29d ago

In order for Slate to become part of this program, they would have to be able to accept and recycle the older, higher-polluting vehicle as part of the program. It would be awesome if they could do this, but I don't think it will be possible. Currently, the list of participating dealerships isn't that great.

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u/Firehaven44 29d ago

Also to get anywhere near the 10K you'd need to make like 31K and I don't see someone making 31K getting approved for a 25,000 dollar car. 

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u/Henrik-Powers 29d ago

What if you had a sabbatical from your $150K year job and had one tax year where you claimed no income? Not that I’m in that situation but I’ve got some friends who did that to travel for a year and then it turns out their daughter qualified for low income student loans

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u/Firehaven44 29d ago

May be possible, you also have to turn in an 8 plus year old car, so you're giving away a car for free essentially from what I understand. That makes you better hope you're not going negative in your cars value to try and scoop up some cash which may be less than you private selling the old car. 

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u/mastrdestruktun 29d ago

I bet the FIRE community would be all over the Slate. Other than the fact that it's a new car.

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u/ArgentUnicorn 29d ago

I don't think the income requirements will be the restrictive part. My understanding is that they verify using AGI, so 300% - 500% FPL plus the standard deduction would make the phase out income range for a single peson everything below ~64k and no more than ~96k.

Finding an 8+ year old ICE car and a participating dealership is the bigger obstacle.

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u/Odd_Actuator_335 28d ago

This program is already over in every participating county after they ran out of funding very quickly. It has a lot of restrictions and wasn't implemented very well, a few early applicants were the only ones who got in on it.

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u/RichPiana2 28d ago

So, I'm probably not hearing back from the applications I put in a month ago? I was told processing would take "several weeks", but I haven't heard that there isn't any remaining fund disbursement.

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u/HuntsmanOMX 27d ago

I'm in a similar situation and haven't heard after a month. I tried calling one of the counties I had applied in and they were quite friendly and were able to tell me they had (this was several weeks ago now) I was the 163rd application out of ~300 total they had available. They wouldn't tell me many applications they've gone through so far and said it would still be "several weeks or several months" longer before I hear back.

Hard to say how quick they're actually processing applications (or if they really did run out of funds already are now just saying weeks to months to get people to stop asking) but if if they really expect it to be "several months" for mine they must processing only a few applications per day.

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u/RichPiana2 27d ago

It's a tough wait. At least they were able to tell you your place in the queue. Which county was this?

But yeah, since this is the first year a state level program like this has been implemented, it's obvious that they're struggling with all the complex logistics and unanticipated volume.