California pulls the plug on flawed e-bike project once run by investigated San Diego nonprofit – San Diego Union-Tribune
California pulls the plug on flawed e-bike project once run by investigated San Diego nonprofit – San Diego Union-Tribune California Kills $30 Million E-Bike Program After Years of Fraud Allegations and Failed Rollouts California has quietly buried its ambitious electric-bike subsidy program after a San Diego nonprofit's mismanagement left thousands of applicants empty-handed, triggered multiple criminal investigations, and became a case study in government oversight failure. The California Air Resources Board announced this month it is redirecting $18 million from the California E-Bike Incentive Project to other clean-vehicle programs, effectively ending an initiative that was supposed to put affordable electric bikes in the hands of low-income Californians but instead devolved into a quagmire of crashed websites, falsified data, and allegations of self-dealing. The program's administrator, a San Diego nonprofit called Pedal Ahead, is now the subject of criminal and civil i...