Innovative Mobility

Taking Commercial Fleet Electrification to scale: Financing Barriers and Solutions

Taking Commercial Fleet Electrification to scale: Financing Barriers and Solutions

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 ...
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Taking Commercial Fleet Electrification to Scale: Financing Barriers and Solutions

Taking Commercial Fleet Electrification to Scale: Financing Barriers and Solutions

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 ...
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CALSTART California ZEV Jobs Study

CALSTART California ZEV Jobs Study

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 ...
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Moving Zero-Emission Freight Toward Commercialization

Moving Zero-Emission Freight Toward Commercialization

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 ...
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Zeroing in on ZEBS

Zeroing in on ZEBS

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 ...
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Clean Transit Innovation Network

Clean Transit Innovation Network

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 ...
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Zeroing in on ZEBs: The Advanced Technology Transit Bus Index | 2019

Zeroing in on ZEBs: The Advanced Technology Transit Bus Index | 2019

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 ...
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Voucher Incentive Programs: A Tool for Clean Commercial Vehicle Deployment

Voucher Incentive Programs: A Tool for Clean Commercial Vehicle Deployment

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 ...
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Breathing Easy - A Survey of Zero Emission Buses Across America

Breathing Easy - A Survey of Zero Emission Buses Across America

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 ...
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Survey of Tier 1 automotive suppliers with respect to the US 2025 LDV GHG emissions standards

Survey of Tier 1 automotive suppliers with respect to the US 2025 LDV GHG emissions standards

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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