Dory Larsen | July 31, 2024
| Clear Transportation, Electrical Automobiles, ETS Collaborative
The 2024 up to date Electrify the South Electrical Transportation Toolkit is an improved, go-to useful resource for decision-makers in figuring out cost-effective, sustainable, and equitable options to speed up transportation electrification.
This previous yr marked great will increase in alternatives for electrical transportation. Mild-duty electrical car gross sales in North America proceed to rise, reaching a file excessive through the second quarter of 2024, and recording an 11.3% improve year-over-year.
Billions of {dollars} in federal funding are actually flowing to help the transition to electrical transportation techniques by way of dozens of latest packages. Nonetheless, amidst this chance is the danger of knowledge overload and inaction. Many native governments are wrangling with easy methods to plan, fund and implement the transition. There’s a want to chop by way of the noise and supply organized, digestible data, in clear phrases. In recognition of those complexities, the 2024 ETS ET Toolkit replace displays the necessity to:
- Meet the distinctive funding alternative second with urgency.
- Present a number of pathways to satisfy particular person wants.
- Prioritize fairness and perceive the financial growth alternatives with ET.
- Determine new instruments, greatest practices and packages.
Format Adjustments Make it Simpler to Digest the Data
The doc has developed to a PDF format making it simpler for the reader to leap to chapters of most curiosity.
- The Toolkit is now a single PDF with hyper-linked chapters as an alternative of separate internet pages like earlier variations.
- Every of the 11 chapters is split by “matters” that are in all caps and blue font. Throughout the matters are distinct “targets and actions” that are bolded. Most “targets and actions” have bulleted “sub-action” objects beneath them and a few have hyperlinks to “assets and examples.”
Design Adjustments Make it Simpler to Meet Your Wants
The association has been modified to determine chronologically the steps an area authorities may take to speed up transportation electrification. It culminates in Chapter VII “Complete Transportation Electrification Planning”, which is a complete method that comes with all of the earlier elements within the Toolkit. This was executed with intentionality as a result of a complete implementation method might not be a viable choice for each native authorities.
- The toolkit offers data organized by matter areas in addition to stand-alone actionable objects, which might be taken piecemeal or together.
- If you happen to’re in search of a complete method there are a variety of examples offered within the Complete TE planning part.
Spotlight Fairness and Financial Growth
Woven into your entire doc are the rules of fairness (recognized in yellow) and financial growth (recognized in inexperienced). These fundamentals are integral to profitable transportation electrification and shouldn’t be thought-about a stand alone class. In a shift from enterprise as common, the Justice 40 Initiative now requires many federally funded packages to deliberately incorporate traditionally underinvested communities in each step of the method from planning, implementation and analysis. Equitable transportation coverage additionally delivers the financial growth advantages of electrifying transportation to the native financial system, benefiting native companies and customers alike. We’re simply starting to see how financial growth alternatives are reworking the southeast area.
New Instruments, Sources, Funding Streams and Applications
With this revision of the Toolkit we’ve additionally offered new and up to date content material. Some particular examples embrace:
- EPRI Verified Product Record of Charging Infrastructure
- A complete and consolidated useful resource of vetted merchandise and gear for the deployment of electrical car charging and {hardware} techniques.
- Present in chapter V: Fleets
- Clear Bus Planning Awards
- Renewable Vitality Laboratory offers college and transit bus fleets with free technical help to develop complete and customised fleet electrification transition plans.
- Present in chapter II: Funding
- Office Charging Applications
- There are three new Division of Vitality funded packages to help office charging.
- Present in chapter IV: Charging Infrastructure
- Raleigh Suitability Evaluation
- A GIS device developed to visualise appropriate EV charging station places.
- Present in chapter III: Planning, Zoning, EV Prepared, and Allowing
- IRA Tax Credit score Direct Cost Last Rules
- The brand new “Direct Pay” funding mechanism permits a direct pay credit score of as much as 30 % when native governments buy a qualifying business car.
- Present in chapter II: Funding
Considering Diving Deeper?
Native authorities workers which are interested by maximizing the Toolkit to satisfy their ET targets can schedule a one-on-one session with Dory Larsen from SACE. Moreover, native governments are invited to take part within the Electrify the South Collaborative. The ETS Collaborative convenes municipalities throughout the Southeast to raised place themselves to obtain federal funding and incentives. Click on right here to be taught extra in regards to the ETS Collaborative.
The Southern Alliance for Clear Vitality’s Electrify the South program leverages analysis, advocacy, and outreach to speed up the equitable transition to electrical transportation throughout the Southeast. Go to ElectrifytheSouth.org to be taught extra and join with us.
