Buy an electric BMW i-3. Save a bunch of money from your electric company. Sounds like a pretty good idea to our BMW electrical specialists. Sign us up.
Customers of electric utility companies PG&E and Southern California Edison can get a discount on the purchase of a BMW 1-3. And by discount, we’re not just talking a few lousy hundreds, but thousands of dollars – $10,000 to be exact.
At first, it looked like you’d have to move to California, but now parts of New Jersey and the Mid-Atlantic region have been added to the list. But don’t count on Cincinnati anytime soon.
Here’s the gist of the deal, according to Green Car Reports:
“A program offered through April 30 gives PSE&G (New Jersey) and SCE (California) residential customers and employees $10,000 off the purchase of any model of the i3.
Buyers must fill out a qualification form and show either a utility bill with their name on it or a utility bill for a given address plus identification showing that they live at that address, e.g. a driver’s license.”
A Push for a Greener Earth
What’s in it for the companies? A healthy earth. Sounds like even working single mom turned environmental activist Erin Brockovich would be proud of this latest move from PG&E and SCE.
‘“Widespread adoption of EVs is critical in meeting California’s goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030,” Katie Sloan, SCE principal manager of Innovation, Development and Controls, explained in a press release. “The transportation sector accounts for nearly half of California’s greenhouse gas emissions and more than 80 percent of its air pollution. As we add more renewable resources to the grid, electric vehicles will become increasingly beneficial to the environment.”
It’s almost enough to make our mechanics close up the Cincinnati auto shop and move to California, but we’d miss fixing your BMW. We eat, sleep and live for that scheduled maintenance.
