California offers up to $500,000 for purchases of zero-emissions equipment

A terminal tractor moves a container at a port with shipping containers in the background.

The California Air Resources Board CARB announced Monday it has $125 million in funding available through its Clean Off-Road Equipment Voucher Incentive Project (CORE) for point-of-sale discounts on purchases of zero-emissions equipment and vehicles, an effort to combat their comparatively high upfront costs.

Administered by clean transportation nonprofit Calstart, the project has more than double the amount allocated when it launched in January 2020.

Qualified zero-emission equipment includes:

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TICO partnership: Electric terminal tractors in the pipeline

TICO is entering a partnership with Volvo Penta and Cummins to create an electric terminal tractor.

Terminal Investment Corp. (TICO), a fleet and terminal service provider and tractor manufacturer, is working on its first electric terminal tractor with the help of Volvo Penta and Cummins

Starting in the fourth quarter of 2021, TICO plans to work with customers nationwide to test the electric tractors in several different environments and with different payloads, Frank Tubbert, the general manager of manufacturing at TICO, told FreightWaves. He said testing this way will provide useful...

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