Has Anyone Here Moved Away From CA After Buying Your PIP?

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  1. rorystewart

    rorystewart Junior Member

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    If so did you have to return your $1,500 rebate? I'm looking at the requirements now and it says you have to keep the vehicle registered in CA for 3 years... :/ Has anyone here gone through this?
     
  2. 3PriusMike

    3PriusMike Prius owner since 2000, Tesla M3 2018

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    Just like most government programs, there is probably funding for the rebates but no funding for enforcement. But who knows, maybe they have flagged each $1500 recipient's DMV records and if you don't do two renewals you will be sent a bill for $1500.

    Mike
     
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    The $1500 CA rebate also says you need to keep the car for 3 years or return the rebate.

    I think that would be a question that some people here could answer more easily. FWIW, I know this person who traded in their car and got a new one that was also eligible for the CA rebate. As far as I know, they didn't return anything and they have never been "asked" to do so either.
     
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    hmm...another guy was asking that I wonder if he pulled trigger...he was moving...
     
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    Are you kidding? Seen the weather in the rest of the country? We'd have to be crazy! ;)
     
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    LOL. I think the opposite. 80's and 90's in January? I don't want or need any of that. I don't like 80's and 90's in August, let alone January.
     
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    Quit bragging:). Yes, we need a lot of more rain soon to get the Sierra its much needed snow pack for the coming dry season. We finally got a decent rain over the last 36 hours up here, and probably some more in a week.

    More seasonality for this "winter" would be welcome, but I'd take this weather any day over what the Midwest, Northeast, and South continues to deal with over recent weeks. I grew up in SoCal and lived a number of years in the midwest recently - we've got it pretty good in California.