CALSTART Proposal Selected as a Top Proposal for Nationally Electrifying Transport by The CLEEN Project | May 11, 2021
Selected Proposals Inform U.S. Leaders on Actionable Ideas to Combat Climate Change, Advance Climate Justice
Selected Proposals Inform U.S. Leaders on Actionable Ideas to Combat Climate Change, Advance Climate Justice
CALSTART cited in this comprehensive study by the California Transit Association
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.
Washington State is in the home stretch on its debate over low carbon fuel standards (LCFS), resting on HB 1091 to allow the Evergreen State to join its regional neighbors in having legislation to provide incentives for cleaner fuels. Despite the success of such programs in California and Oregon, the same old tropes are being plied in an effort to once again stall the forward momentum of Washington’s transition to a clean fuel economy. However, the success elsewhere has made champions out of the unexpected – voices from the oil industry.
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.