For the year ending December 31, 2023, there were 42,005 vehicles in 219 green fleets, with a significant number of additional fleets in 2023 reflecting tracking of aspirational smaller fleets Hybrid-Electric (HEV) and Electric (ELEC) both had significant growth in use, with +15.5% (HEV) and +10.1% (ELEC) respectively. E85, Bio-diesel, and Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) all made minor gains in fleets, whereas Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vehicles have decreased by ...
Continue Reading →A Successful Conclusion to the Mid-Atlantic Electric School Bus Experience (MEEP)
Throughout the completion of the four year project, the Mid-Atlantic Electric School Bus Experience Project (MEEP) allowed coalitions to provide school districts an opportunity to explore electric school bus technology. In select local districts in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Washington DC, this project supported the opportunity ...
Continue Reading →2022 Clean Cities Annual Report Released
Every year, each Clean Cities coalition submits to the Department of Energy an annual Transportation Technology Deployment report that documents its activities and accomplishments for the previous calendar year. Coalition coordinators, who lead the local coalitions, provide information and data via an online database managed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The data characterize membership, funding, projects, and activities of the ...
Continue Reading →Fleet Transition and Electrification Reports
Virginia Clean Cities supports several projects with fleet transition or community transition reports in a range of fuels including electricity. In these efforts report products are often able to be shared publicly, although many reports remain private to just the fleet or stakeholder. This work is supported by localities, environmental foundations, and state and federal grant programs. Each of these reports feature and respond to content requests from localities ...
Continue Reading →Resources and Publications
Multi-Unit Dwellings
The Vehicle Charging Innovations for Multi-Unit Dwellings (VCI-MUD) project has collected usage data and conducted surveys and interviews with site hosts and residents in nine sites around the U.S. to evaluate user experiences for innovative EV charging technologies. In doing so, the project team has assembled a MUD charging toolkit that will help residents, building managers/owners, and HOAs to navigate implementing EV charging at MUDs.
The project is developing a comprehensive MUD Charging Toolkit for building managers/owners, residents, electric utilities ...
Continue Reading →Rural EV Education Toolkit
A summary from “Charging Forward: A toolkit for Planning and Funding Rural Electric Mobility Infrastructure”. Each page discusses different topics for rural-specific EV-related information and contains QR codes with additional resources.
Continue Reading →Curbside Charging: A Model Ordinance for Cities and Counties
In 2021, the United States and Virginia are at an approximate 2% adoption rate of Electric Vehicles (EVs). In order to support the new EVs that will be hitting the road in the coming years and expand EV access to all people, we will need to increase the availability of electric vehicle chargers.
Planning EV infrastructure can seem like a daunting ...
Continue Reading →Statewide Electric Vehicle Charging Report
In May and June of 2021, Virginia Clean Cities developed a statewide report for Virginia and Washington D.C. to assess the Commonwealth’s Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Projections and 10% Deployment Scenario. The objective of this report is to outline the tools and benefits available to the Commonwealth ...
Continue Reading →Virginia Major Urban Area 10% Electrification Reports
Presented are 13 unique Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Projection and 10% Deployment Scenario reports for major urban areas in Virginia. Localities include, Bristol, Blacksburg, Charlottesville, Fredericksburg, Harrisonburg, Lynchburg, Richmond, Roanoke, Staunton/Waynesboro, Virginia Beach, Washington, DC, Williamsburg, and Winchester.
Reports include electrification projections from the Electric Vehicles Infrastructure Projection tool ...