 The project received an $8.6 million grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.In 2009, the California Cars Initiative stated that the Clean Cities American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Project Awards included a scattering of funding for electrification and charging stations, but most of it was for carbon-based liquid fuels or non-pluggable hybrids.Clean Cities federal funding in 2010-2011 was set up with a majority of the funding favoring plug-in EVs and HEVs.