Search incentives and laws related to alternative fuels and advanced vehicles.
Choose one or more jurisdictions to start your search. Select additional options to narrow your search.
Type: Laws and Regulations |
Jurisdiction: Minnesota
State agencies must establish interagency teams to develop and implement sustainability goals that reduce state vehicle petroleum consumption. In addition, each state department or agency must prepare an annual sustainability plan that includes ways to modify vehicle use practices and report annually on progress towards implementing their plan. Each state agency plan must be based on following targets and mandates:
When reasonably possible, state agencies must purchase on-road vehicles that use alternative fuels, including biodiesel blends of 20% (B20) or greater, compressed or liquefied natural gas, ethanol blends of 70% (E70) or greater, hydrogen, propane, or electricity, or (with the exception of buses, snowplows, and construction vehicles) have a fuel economy rating that exceeds 30 miles per gallon (mpg) in the city and 35 mpg on the highway;
When reasonably possible, state employees must fuel vehicles capable of operating on an alternative fuel with that fuel;
State agencies must increase the use of renewable fuels derived from agricultural products or waste products; and
State agencies must increase the use of technology for delivering information and services in order to reduce reliance on the state's fleet.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's Small Business Environmental Improvement and Auxiliary Power Unit Loan Programs provide low-interest loans up to $50,000 to qualified small businesses to finance environmental projects such as capital equipment upgrades that meet or exceed environmental regulations, including idle reduction technologies. For more information, see the Small Business Auxiliary Power Unit Loan Program website.
Minnesota
Idle Reduction Weight Exemption
State Incentives
Idle Reduction Weight Exemption
Type: State Incentives |
Jurisdiction: Minnesota
A motor vehicle equipped with idle reduction or emissions reduction technology may exceed the maximum gross vehicle weight and axle weight limits by up to 550 pounds to compensate for the additional weight of the technology. The vehicle operator must provide documentation that the qualified equipment is installed on the vehicle. (Reference Minnesota Statutes 169.824)
