Linda Bailey, Program Manager at the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation gave this presentation at Forth Design and Fund Equitable Electric Mobility For Your Community workshop on March 14, 2024.
Building a Future Where Everyone Can Ride and Drive Electric by Linda Bailey
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Building a Future Where Everyone
Can Ride and Drive Electric
Linda Bailey
Forth: Design & Fund Equitable Transportation for Communities
March 14, 2024
3. Mission and Vision
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Mission
To accelerate an electrified
transportation system that is
affordable, convenient, equitable,
reliable, and safe.
Vision
A future where everyone can ride
and drive electric.
4. Vision for the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation
Support deployment of zero-emission, convenient, accessible, equitable
transportation infrastructure—coordinating and leveraging activities between
the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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Serve as the front door to the Federal Government for expertise and technical
assistance.
Serve as a convenor of federal agencies, private sector companies, NGO and
academia to bring an all of government and stimulate an all of society
approach to zero emissions transportation and mobility services.
Focus on social return on investment and providing pilot funding to test
outcomes vs. simply hardware.
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Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act (IIJA) Programs
Supported by the Joint Office
The Joint Office provides unifying guidance, technical assistance, and analysis to support
the following programs:
National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program (U.S. DOT)
$5 billion for states to build a national electric vehicle (EV) charging network
along corridors, including $148 million awarded to repair and replace non-
operational chargers.
Charging & Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program (U.S. DOT)
$2.5 billion in community and corridor grants for EV charging, as well as
hydrogen, natural gas, and propane fueling infrastructure
Low-No Emissions Grants Program for Transit (U.S. DOT)
$5.6 billion in support of low- and no-emission transit bus deployments
Clean School Bus Program (U.S. EPA)
$5 billion in support of electric school bus deployments
7. Discretionary
Grant Program
for Charging and
Fueling
Infrastructure
(CFI)
• $623 million awarded January 2024
• 47 EV charging and alternative-fueling
infrastructure projects
• 22 states and Puerto Rico, 2 tribes
• Building about 7,500 EV charging ports
8. Community
Projects
focus on:
underserved communities,
multifamily housing
multimodal transportation
and workforce development
Example Projects
$10 million to the New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection
– Build EV charging stations for residents in multi-family
housing in disadvantaged communities and rural areas
near transit stations
– Encourage the use of shared transportation services
$15 million to the Maryland Clean Energy Center
– Build 58 EV charging stations in urban, suburban and low-
and moderate-income communities and 34 disadvantaged
communities with multi-family housing
– Include workforce development programs.
$15 million to the County of Contra Costa in California
– Build a total of 52 fast chargers and 60 Level 2 chargers at
15 branch locations of the county’s library system.
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9. Corridor
Projects
focus on:
long-distance travel and
connecting major areas
Example Projects
$70 million to the North Central Texas Council of Governments
– What: Five hydrogen fueling stations for medium- and
heavy-duty freight trucks
– Where: Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Austin, and San
Antonio.
– Goal: Create a hydrogen corridor from southern California
to Texas.
$15 million to Energy Northwest
– What: A joint operating agency in Washington State to
install 40 fast chargers and 12 Level 2 chargers
– Where: Western Washington State and northern Oregon.
– Goal: Provide EV access to largely rural and disadvantaged
communities, including on Indigenous Tribal lands.
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10. Joint Office Ride and Drive Electric
Funding Opportunity
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11. Overall Breakdown of Joint Office Funding Across All States
1 Award
$1,000,000
Topic 1
1 Award
$1,500,000
Topic 2b
KEY: The color
gradient is an
indication of how
much funding a
state is receiving.
The darker the
color, the more
federal funding
that state is
receiving.
1 Award
$1,500,000
Topic 1
1 Award
$1,500,178
Topic 2b
2 Awards
$3,778,281
Topics 1, 3a
1 Award
$3,934,628
Topic 3b
2 Awards
$2,526,358
Topics 2a, 2b
3 Awards
$4,357,968
Topics 1, 2a
1 Award
$2,900,325
Topic 3a
1 Award
$1,199,997
Topic 1
1 Award
$285,500
Topic 2a
1 Award
$1,470,995
Topic 2b
3 Awards
$5,984,157
Topics 2a, 2b,
3a
4 Awards
$4,851,764
Topics 1, 2a
5 Awards
$6,729,805
Topics 1,
2a, 2b, 3a
2 Awards
$2,978,244
Topics 2a, 2b
12. Example projects under Joint Office Funding Opportunity
• Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator:
Zero Emission Delivery solutions
through community-centered pilots
• Revel Transit, Inc. (Brooklyn):
Replicable business model for
charging deployment in Justice40
communities
• Sustainable Access and Charging
Hubs for Urban Benefits (SACHUB –
Pasadena, CA): E-mobility hubs to
serve multiple modes at light-rail
stations.
• Preparing Diverse Women for Oregon’s
Transportation Electrification
Workforce (Portland, OR): pre-
apprenticeship program for low-
income job seekers
• EV-Skilled Trades Employment
Program (EVSTEP, Milwaukee WI):
Creating equitable career pathways
through access to training,
apprenticeships and industry
placements.
Community-Driven Models for EV
Charging Deployment
Workforce Development
14. • Specialized assistance for states, communities,
Tribal Nations, transit agencies, and school
districts
• One-on-one meetings with states to address
questions and concerns related to NEVI Formula
Program
• Concierge service (phone, email, web form) to
efficiently route technical assistance requests for
NEVI, electric school buses, and transit buses
• Technical assistance support team has 50 staff
members across 10 organizations.
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Technical Assistance Strategies
Concierge Service Contact Methods: 833-600-2751 | doe-dot.jo.ta@nrel.gov | driveelectric.gov/contact/
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The Joint Office mission is to accelerate an electrified transportation system that is affordable, convenient, equitable, reliable, and safe.
And our vision is a future where everyone can ride and drive electric.
We have a 4 prong Vision for the JO heading into 2023
The Joint Office supports several programs that were established in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law including:
The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, also known as “NEVI,” Formula Program. This program provides $5 billion in funding to states to strategically deploy EV charging infrastructure and establish an interconnected network to facilitate data collection, access, and reliability. This is designed to inspire confidence of EV drivers in a national charging network that will allow anyone to ride or drive electric. On September 27, 2022 the Joint Office announced that the Biden-Harris administration has approved Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Deployment Plans for all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico ahead of schedule under the NEVI Formula Program.
There is also the NEVI Discretionary Program which provides $2.5 billion in community grants for EV charging, as well as hydrogen, natural gas, and propane fueling infrastructure.
The Low-No Emissions Grants Program for Transit provides $5.6 billion in support of low- and no-emission transit bus deployments.
Finally, the Clean School Bus Program distributes $5 billion in support of electric school bus deployments.
EV charging, hydrogen, propane, and natural gas fueling infrastructure
80/20 Federal Cost Share
Applications must be submitted through Grants.gov no later than 11:59 pm, Eastern Time, on May 30, 2023
$700M in FY22 and FY23 funding
Application period closed June 13th
Program is divided into two distinct $1.25 billion grant programs:
Corridor Grant Program
Community Grant Program
Biden-Harris Administration Announces $623 Million in Grants to Continue Building Out Electric Vehicle Charging Network | FHWA (dot.gov)
Total Funding: $350 Million
Minimum Award: $500,000
Maximum Award: $15 Million
Located on any public road or in other publicly accessible locations
i.e. parking facilities at public buildings, public schools, and public parks, or in publicly accessible parking facilities owned or managed by a private entity.
Must be publicly accessible.
May use funds to contract with a private entity.
Must address environmental justice.
Expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to expand or fill gaps in access to publicly accessible infrastructure.
Must be accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities.
$10 million to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
What: build EV charging stations for residents in multi-family housing in disadvantaged communities and rural areas.
Goal: focus on areas near transit stations to encourage the use of shared transportation services such as electric carshare and rideshare options.
$15 million to the Maryland Clean Energy Center
What: build 58 electric vehicle charging stations in urban, suburban and low- and moderate-income communities and 34 disadvantaged communities with multi-family housing.
Goal: Include workforce development programs that offer services to help train, place, and retain people in good-paying jobs or registered apprenticeships.
$15 million to the County of Contra Costa in California
What: build a total of 52 fast chargers and 60 Level 2 chargers at 15 branch locations of the county’s library system.
Other example projects:
$12 million to the City of Mesa, Arizona, to build 48 electric vehicle chargers for a variety of vehicle sizes, charging docks for e-bikes and e-scooters, and solar canopies to support electricity generation at the stations.
$1.4 million to the Chilkoot Indian Association, an Alaska Native Tribe, to build an EV charging station in Haines, a rural and disadvantaged community where there are no publicly available EV charging stations.
Biden-Harris Administration Announces $623 Million in Grants to Continue Building Out Electric Vehicle Charging Network | FHWA (dot.gov)
Total Funding: $350 Million
Minimum Award: $1 Million
Maximum Award: No maximum
Located along a designated AFC;
EV charging within 1 mile and other alternative fuels within 5 miles of the AFC.
Must be publicly accessible.
Must use funds to contract with a private entity.
Must address environmental justice.
Must be accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities.
The color gradient for the state is an indication of how much funding a state is receiving. The darker the color, the more federal funding that state is receiving.
Michigan selection: American Center for Mobility Interoperability testing laboratory. The project includes complete interoperability testing lab capabilities.
Next is what is coming in 2023 for the Joint Office
The Joint Office technical assistance strategies are designed to help states, communities, and other stakeholders with their requests for corridor and community charging and fueling infrastructure deployment, electric school bus funding through the EPA, and transit bus funding through the FTA.
We are set-up to provide one-on-one meetings with states to address questions related to the NEVI Formula Program.
Our technical assistance concierge service provides three ways to contact the Joint Office technical assistance team, by phone, email, or web form. The concierge service contact methods are listed at the bottom of this slide.
Finally, the technical assistance support team has 50 staff members across 10 organizations ready to answer your questions on topics such as:
Corridor development
Data analysis and tools
Stakeholder engagement
Infrastructure development