White Papers
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
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This report is the fourth publication in CALSTART’s Zeroing in on Zero-Emission Trucks series and was funded through the California Air Resources Board’s Clean Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project.The authors would like to thank YUNEV for consulta ...
Monday, August 28, 2023
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CALSTART evaluated the cost and performance of zero-emission trucks (ZETs), including Class 7 box trucks and Class 8 tractors, as part of the Volvo LIGHTS project conducted at the Dependable Highway Express (DHE) and the NFI Industries (NFI) freight ...
Monday, May 1, 2023
/Rachel Chard, Juan Espinoza, Ian Fried, and Liza Walsh
This report aims to provide an inventory of the number of electric school buses (ESBs) currently adopted within the United States. In 2021, the federal government allocated $5 billion over the next five years to replace existing school buses with zer ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
/Cristiano Façanha PhD., Bill Van Amburg, Peter Jenkins, Owen MacDonnell
At COP26, an initial group of 15 leading nations signed a Global Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Zero-Emission Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles, establishing a clearly defined goal of 30 percent zero-emission commercial vehicle sales by 2030 and ...
Friday, March 18, 2022
/CALSTART
Incentive programs help overcome the high upfront cost of zero-emission (ZE) vehicle and equipment adoption, and as ZE vehicle and equipment market segments mature, these higher incremental purchase or lease costs relative to conventionally powered t ...
Thursday, March 17, 2022
/CARB & CALSTART
Following advancements made with zero-emission (ZE) on-road vehicles, electrification is progressing rapidly across the many segments in the off-road equipment category. This report provides a comprehensive survey of the technological status and mark ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
/CARB & CALSTART
The California Air Resources Board (CARB), in conjunction with CALSTART, has adapted a visual representation of the beachhead strategy that aids in targeting its investments for medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission (ZE) and ZE-enabling vehicles and e ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
/CALSTART & CARB
Each year, CALSTART and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) conduct technology status and market readiness snapshot assessments to analyze the technology and market progress of medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission (ZE) and ZE-enabling vehicles ...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
/Baha M. Al-Alawi, Owen MacDonnell, Ross McLane, and Kevin Walkowicz
Zero-emission trucks (ZETs) are relatively new to the U.S. commercial automotive market, but with numerous pending orders and purchase commitments now in place and increasing regulatory policy action at the state level, these vehicles are poised to s ...
Saturday, January 15, 2022
Charging as a Service (CaaS), Smart Charging and Software Solutions are Part of a Growing Toolbox to Help EV Fleets Lower Charging Costs (Pasadena) January X, 2022 – A new CALSTART report, “Not Just Smart: The Importance of Managed Charging” writte ...
Friday, January 14, 2022
/Katrina Sutton, Kristian Jokinen, & Fred Silver
As of 2021, there are 3,364 full-sized transit battery electric buses (BEBs) in the United States, with more on the way (Hamilton et al., 2021). An increasing number of states and transit agencies are making a commitment to zero-emission buses across ...
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
/Hannah Hamilton, Rachel Chard, Bryan Lee, Fred Silver, and Justin Slosky
This report aims to provide an updated inventory of the number of zero-emission buses (ZEBs) currently adopted within the United States and Canada, according to data collected through September 2021. The adoption of ZEBs increased steadily in the pas ...
Thursday, December 23, 2021
/Kevin Beaty, YUNEV
Strategic Sourcing Challenges for North American Truck and Bus OEMs and Tier 1 Suppliers ...
Thursday, December 9, 2021
/Mitul Arora, CALSTART Dan Welch, CALSTART Fred Silver, CALSTART
A Synthesis of Current Technologies, Costs, Demonstrations, and Funding ...
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
/CALSTART
PASADENA, CA, September 14, 2021 — As the economy reopens and cities are once again coming to life, the urban curbside is a busy and increasingly competitive space. CALSTART, a national nonprofit focused on accelerating clean transportation, has rele ...
Monday, August 9, 2021
/CALSTART
California’s Innovative Clean Transit (ICT) regulation requires all transit agencies to purchase only zero-emission buses (ZEBs) starting in 2029. This regulation will result in a statewide zero-emission transit fleet by 2040 as ageing conventionally ...
Monday, March 1, 2021
/Robert O. Gurman
Numerous barriers and risks impede zero-emission commercial vehicles (ZECV) from reaching meaningful scale despite strong and growing policy momentum toward their adoption. While some of these barriers and risks are technological in nature, like the ...
Monday, March 1, 2021
/CALSTART
Despite strong and growing policy and consumer momentum toward their adoption, barriers remain and are impeding the growth of the zero-emission commercial vehicle (ZECV) segment. A new CALSTART White Paper, “Taking Commercial Fleet Electrification to ...
Friday, January 1, 2021
/CALSTART
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 ve ...
Thursday, December 31, 2020
/Jared Schnader & Hannah Hamilton
Public transportation employees are continuously stretched thin in many of their affairs, including the procurement of new vehicles due to limited resources and bandwidth. Contract development using federal guidelines for the purchase of new vehicles ...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
/Hannah Hamilton, Rachel Chard, Bryan Lee, Fred Silver, and Justin Slosky
This report aims to provide an updated inventory of the number of zero-emission buses (ZEBs) currently adopted within the United States and Canada, according to data collected through September 2021. The adoption of ZEBs increased steadily in the pas ...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
/Dan Welch, Cristiano Façanha, Rob Kroon, Harm Weken, David Bruil, and Floris Jousma
Global transportation systems have begun a shift to newer, cleaner technologies that will meet greenhouse gas emission reduction and air quality improvement goals that governments have developed or fleets have adopted. Zero-emission freight vehicles ...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
/CALSTART
The Clean Transit Innovation Network (CTIN) is a centralized help center for United States transit agencies and representatives seeking a step-by-step pathway to creating cleaner bus fleets. CTIN reports on efforts to deploy, test and commercialize ...
Thursday, October 17, 2019
/AnnieLaurie Vann
America’s zero-emission bus fleet is on the move, growing nearly 37 percent since last year according to CALSTART’s annual accounting of zero-emission electric and fuel cell transit buses (ZEBs) in the United States. Zeroing in on ZEBs: The Advanced ...
Monday, July 1, 2019
/Dan Welch, Benjamin Mandel
July 2019 - Investments and innovations in clean buses and trucks are progressing at a rapid pace in the United States and across the world, yet fleet adoption of alternative fuel vehicles has been hampered by the comparatively high costs of the new ...
Sunday, December 2, 2018
/Owen MacDonnell and Cristiano Façanha, PhD
Representing only four percent of the global on-road fleet, trucks are responsible for roughly 27 percent of global on-road greenhouse gas emissions. Many nations, even those considered climate leaders, fear big trucks are too challenging to regulate ...
Friday, August 17, 2018
/Elliott James Popel
This report includes a breakdown of all zero emission buses, categorized by battery electric buses and hydrogen fuel cell buses, for every state in the US. A list of transit agencies who are actively operating, ordering, or has received funding for z ...
Friday, February 2, 2018
Ricardo Energy & Environment (RE&E) was commissioned by CALSTART to carry out a survey of Tier 1 automotive suppliers to gather information on the views of these companies with respect to the US 2025 LDV greenhouse gas standards and the proposed revi ...
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