Texas offers $3000.00 credit for car purchase

[Ca3799]

I read somewhere on-line recently about an offer from the State of
Texas of a $3000.00 credit for new car purchases. It may have been the Houston Chronicle, or one of the local TV station websites. Now, I can’t find the article again.

The article said one could get up to $3500.00 for a hybrid purchase and listed the income requirements,and that it was intended to get olders cars or those who can’t pass emisssions tests off the road.

I didn’t qualify, so didn’t make note of the information. Of course, now I wish I had as some friends want to know about the program. I recall that 80 car dealers (dealerships?) were participating.

Does anyone know of the plan?

[Rhubarb]

I got a letter in the mail from TxDOT (?) about this. I didn’t qualify, either, so I threw out the letter. However, IIRC, the car has to be >10 y.o. and your household income has to be below a fairly small amount.

Ah, here’s a story on the program.
excerpt;

To qualify for the program, vehicles must have passed a state inspection within the last 15 months and have been registered in a participating county for at least a year. The owner’s annual income cannot exceed $61,950 for a family of four.

For cars that qualify, a $3,000 voucher will be issued that can be used as a down payment on a new vehicle that cannot cost more than $25,000. The voucher can also be applied to used vehicles that are no more than two model years old.

The 16 counties are Brazoria, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Johnson, Kaufman, Montgomery, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant, Travis and Williamson.

[Ca3799]

That’s the one! Thanks!

It’s here: driveacleanmachine.org