A statewide program to help Californians with lower incomes buy electric bikes was suddenly scrapped last month, surprising bike advocates and raising questions about a lack of transparency.

The offered up to $2,000 toward the purchase of an e-bike.. More than 100,000 people applied in the program’s first round despite only 1,500 vouchers being available then. The project ultimately distributed 2,100 vouchers through two rounds of funding.

A third round was expected early next year, but the California Air Resources Board, which oversaw the program, diverted the remaining roughly $18 million to Clean Cars 4 All. That program allows people to turn in their old high-polluting cars in exchange for assistance to purchase an EV or hybrid vehicle.

Lindsay Buckley, a spokesperson for CARB, said

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