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Ridgecrest authorizes funds to buy battery-electric transit vans using LCTOP award

5550246 · August 7, 2025
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Council approved moving forward with an appropriation to purchase electric transit vans using accumulated Low Carbon Transit Operations Program funds; staff said the city plans to buy five vans and one will be fully covered by LCTOP funds.

The Ridgecrest City Council on Aug. 6 approved an amendment to the fiscal-year budget to allow purchase of battery-electric transit vans using previously awarded Low Carbon Transit Operations Program (LCTOP) funds.

A transit department staff member told the council the city plans to buy five vans in the coming year. “One of those vans will be purchased 100% with LCTOP funds,” the staff…

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