One of California’s programs designed to get buyers into EVs is ending. Southern California’s The Daily Bulletin reports that the long-running Clean Vehicle Rebate Project is ending when it runs out of funds at the end of the year so the state can focus on low-income drivers.

The CVRP started back in 2010. Over its 13 years of operation, it has given out over $1.2 billion in rebates. But as with most programs like this, it didn’t help who it was originally designed to. Strange and often confusing income limits combined with expensive EVs meant that the people who took advantage of it were often higher income individuals.

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There are those who are against the program, of course, but for weird reasons. Bill Magavern, policy director of the Coalition for Clean Air, thinks that rebates for EVs should go away entirely because they’re mainstream now.

“It is time for (the state rebate) to go away. When EVs were considered to be exotic and strange and out of reach for most people, it was important to have this broad-based rebate. But now EVs have gone mainstream,” Magavern said.

One Northern California dealer said while he understands the need for the rebates for lower income people, he’s worried that the ending of these rebates — again, that were mostly used by middle- to high-income earners — are going to drive away those very people who have been buying EVs all along because they can’t get some of that sweet state cash. While this new program looks to help these lower income buyers, EV prices are still way to high for these rebates to help with affordability anyway.

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