{"id":15157,"date":"2018-08-31T16:25:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T20:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=15157"},"modified":"2018-08-31T16:25:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T20:25:37","slug":"statement-by-minister-john-yakabuski-on-the-electric-hydrogen-vehicle-incentive-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/31\/statement-by-minister-john-yakabuski-on-the-electric-hydrogen-vehicle-incentive-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Minister John Yakabuski on the Electric &#038; Hydrogen Vehicle Incentive Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the decision by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on the Electric and Hydrogen Vehicle Incentive Program, the Honourable John Yakabuski, Minister of Transportation, issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ontario cancelled the cap and trade program to bring gas prices down and help lower costs for Ontario families and businesses. As a result, on July 11, 2018, the Electric and Hydrogen Vehicle Incentive Program was cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>The Court has rendered its decision. The ministry will abide by the court&#8217;s decision and I have directed the ministry to expand the wind-down process for the Electric and Hydrogen Vehicle Incentive Program.<\/p>\n<p>Incentives will be provided as long as the following conditions are met:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eligible vehicles were delivered, registered, and plated on or before July 11<sup>th<\/sup>; or,<\/li>\n<li>Eligible vehicles were on dealer lots in Ontario &#8211; or on order by dealers or by customers directly from manufacturers on or before July 11<sup>th<\/sup>, and delivered to customers, registered and plated on or before September 10, 2018. These vehicles must be on the ministry approved order list from dealers and manufacturers.<\/li>\n<li>Applications must be submitted within 90 days of vehicle registration, plating and delivery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ending the Electric and Hydrogen Vehicle Incentive Program could save Ontario taxpayers up to an estimated $1 billion over four years.<\/p>\n<p>This government is working hard to give people lower gas prices, lower energy bills and a real break in their wallets in order to get the economy going and create jobs. I am committed to making life more affordable for people living in Ontario.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE &#8211;\u00a0Ministry of Transportation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the decision by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on the Electric and Hydrogen Vehicle Incentive Program, the Honourable John Yakabuski, Minister of Transportation, issued the following statement: &#8220;Ontario cancelled the cap and trade program to bring gas prices down and help lower costs for Ontario families and businesses. As a result, on July &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1672],"class_list":["post-15157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial","tag-electric-and-hydrogen-vehicle-incentive-program"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 03:42:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15158,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15157\/revisions\/15158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}