California Air Resources Board

The Zero-Emission Assurance Project (ZAP) was established by Assembly Bill (AB) 193 (Cervantes, Chapter 363, Statutes of 2018) to help lower-income Californians reduce the risk of buying a used zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) by providing a rebate or vehicle service contract for the replacement battery or fuel cell component. In addition to establishing ZAP, AB 193 required that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) submit a report on the status of the program to the Legislature no later than January 1, 2024. While legislation established this program in 2019, direct funding for ZAP was not allocated by the Legislature until Fiscal Year (FY) 2022-23, through AB 179 (Ting, Chapter 249, Statutes of 2022). Because of this, ZAP has not yet been established and CARB staff is currently developing the project. Therefore, CARB is unable at this time to provide any of the details required for this report. The report provided is a status update on actions taken by CARB to prepare for program implementation.