Small businesses slow to take up WA’s new electric truck vouchers

Uptake slow for mid-size electric truck vouchers in WA’s new incentive program

A line of work trucks sat running in the parking lot of Kent’s Pacific Raceways Monday, but there was hardly any engine noise and no diesel exhaust.

Small businesses slow to take up WA’s new electric truck vouchers

Five months after the program’s launch, half of $112 million in vouchers have been requested, but some say more funding is needed to incentivize small businesses.

Small businesses slow to take up Washington’s new electric truck vouchers

A line of work trucks sat running in the parking lot of Kent’s Pacific Raceways Monday, but there was hardly any engine noise and no diesel exhaust.  The vehicles, ranging from forklifts to delivery vans to semi trucks, were all electric models eligible for the Washington Zero-Emission Incentive Program, a new funding mechanism supplied by the state’s Climate Commitment Act designed to kickstart the state’s electric work truck market.  When it c…