mattsaradan
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It looks like the $3K Maryland EV excise tax credit was allowed to expire. The credit has been underfunded for years (last year's credit was fully expended on the first day of the fiscal year paying out claims submitted from the prior year). The Governor had proposed doubling the size of the fund; it died in committee in part due to the COVID-19-forced truncated session. So now it appears there is no state EV credit for purchases made after June 30, 2020 (and no funding for purchases made since July 2, 2019). It is possible for a retroactive credit to be passed in the next legislature - it has never been a budget buster (the proposal that died would have taken the fund from $6 million to $12 million); those of us who live in Maryland should be lobbying our state legislators and the Governor to reinstate the credit, especially seeing the climate impact of having reduced tailpipe emissions during the public health crisis. It could be seen as a stimulus for auto dealers in the state, and frankly the only way the state can even come close to our ZEV adoption goals (300,000 ZEVs on the road by 2025 - we had 18,000 as of 2019). The bill that died is here: Clean Cars Act of 2020, HB1223 - http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1223?ys=2020RS - including list of Committee members. Note to those who live in Montgomery County - District 15 - your rep, Delegate David Fraser-Hidalgo, is the chair of the Environment and Transportation Committee.
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