The grants will be spread across buses; medium-duty and heavy-duty trucks; locomotives; non-road engines; cargo handling; mining or energy production; marine engines; and more.
Among the areas the EPA will provide funding for are:
- Up to 100 per cent of the cost of Verified Exhaust Control Technologies.
- Up to 50 per cent of the cost of eligible engine upgrades.
- The cost differential between eligible clean fuels and conventional diesel fuels.
- Funding up to 100 per cent for idle reduction technologies on locomotives, truck stop electrification technologies and shore connection systems.
- Up to 50 per cent of the cost of locomotive idle reduction technologies.
- Up to 25 per cent of the cost of eligible shore connection systems and truck stop electrification technologies.
- Up to 100 per cent of the cost of verified low rolling resistance tyres and verified aerodynamic technologies.
- Up to 50 per cent of the cost of eligible engine repower.
- Up to 25 per cent of the cost of an eligible replacement vehicle or piece of equipment.
Overall, the EPA hopes to make new diesel engines 90 per cent cleaner than their predecessors.
