It is looking like there will be a 2021 Infrastructure Week and it could include needed and significant investment to secure a net-zero emissions future in the U.S. transportation sector.
American Jobs Plan Investments Can Drive A Clean Transportation Future While the official White House Easter Egg Roll
California's 10+ years of public investment in zero-emission vehicle technologies has built a major home-grown industry in the state and created thriving small-businesses, demonstrated by CALSTART's recent study, which shows that the zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) industry has already created nearly 70,000 jobs in California. The study concludes that California also likely leads the nation in the total number of "green" vehicle technology companies, many of them small businesses. The study began with a ground-up, location-specific approach that set out to capture a verifiable metric for the impact that ZEV manufacturing has on the California economy. CALSTART hopes that this study helps policymakers better understand the benefits of our public ZEV incentive investments to the California economy.
CALSTART’s Driving California Forward Policy Summit on Tuesday, February 23 and Wednesday, February 24th will explore forward-thinking solutions to achieving California’s ambitious climate goals, and what will be required to reach zero-emission vehicle targets.
Despite an over-all depressed transit bus market due to Covid-19, the U.S. zero emission transit bus market grew by 24 percent in 2020 according to CALSTART. The report noted that 53 new transit properties ordered zero emission buses (ZEB’s) in 2020, bringing the total to 229.
California's 10+ years of public investment in zero-emission vehicle technologies has built a major home-grown industry in the state and created thriving small-businesses, demonstrated by CALSTART's recent study, which shows that the zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) industry has already created nearly 70,000 jobs in California. The study concludes that California also likely leads the nation in the total number of "green" vehicle technology companies, many of them small businesses. The study began with a ground-up, location-specific approach that set out to capture a verifiable metric for the impact that ZEV manufacturing has on the California economy. CALSTART hopes that this study helps policymakers better understand the benefits of our public ZEV incentive investments to the California economy.
Despite an over-all depressed transit bus market due to Covid-19, the U.S. zero emission transit bus market grew by 24 percent in 2020 according to CALSTART. The report noted that 53 new transit properties ordered zero emission buses (ZEB’s) in 2020, bringing the total to 229.
Since the creation of the Clean Air Act (CAA), the federal government has been working with public and private organizations to reduce the amount of pollution released into the atmosphere. Transit buses have historically and predominantly operated on diesel fuel. Although buses produce less smog per capita than cars, they still release toxic fumes like nitrous oxide directly into urban communities.
Over the holidays, four Northeast jurisdictions signed an historic Memorandum of Understanding to join the Transportation and Climate Initiative Program (TCI-P) cap-and-invest program beginning in 2022. The TCI-P will set a declining cap on carbon emissions generated by the transportation sectors in participating jurisdictions, and require petroleum suppliers to purchase allowances for the pollution generated by sales of their fuels in these markets.
The Volvo Group was honored with CALSTART’s 2020 Blue Sky Award at the organization’s annual meeting, a virtual gathering of the clean transportation industry’s top leaders and decision-makers.