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July 21, 2023

Sacramento Clean Cities' goal is to reduce fossil petroleum consumption in the transportation and energy sectors.

In this July 21st eNewsletter from Sacramento Clean Cities

Upcoming Grants - Funding for a wide range of transportation and energy programs and projects

Upcoming Workshops - Participate in the decision making process

New Updates, Regulations & Requirements - Regulations and requirements that may affect your operations

Alternative Fuel & Zero-Emission Insights - Learn what’s new and what’s coming soon

Conferences, Programs - Educational, networking and presentation opportunities

Presentations Slides and Videos from Previous Sacramento Clean Cities Webinars

Presentation Slides and Recordings posted Here

Special Announcement

Mayor Steinberg's Office Youth Summit for STEM Employers and Educators

August 9 - Sac State

Employers, Educators, and Practitioners 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Youth Ages 16-24 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Sacramento State, 6000 J St.

WRAPA LOT Specialty Filmz

Kevin Lash grew up in the Bay Area. Moving to Sacramento turn out to be a great decision for Kevin. Taking advantage of local resources provided by community centers, he was able to learn how to do screen printing and embroidering. Kevin was introduced to car wrapping at a trade show. He now has his own business (WRAPA LOT SPECIALTY FILMZ) which eventually lead to him working with GreenTech to wrap a few vehicles. WRAPA LOT SPECIALTY FILMZ does standard and commercial vehicle wraps, car window tints, paint protection, window decals, boat wraps, wall wraps and residential and commercial window films. Kevin is currently focused on gaining more business to be able to give back to the community.

Read more Here

Grants Accepting Applications

CEC "EnergIIZE" Drayage Fleet and the Transit Set-Aside Funding

Funding Pairs HVIP Incentives with infrastructure (EnergIIZE) project incentives
Drayage Funding $22.275M
Transit Funding $11.4M
Funding Open 7/27/23 to 8/25/23

Read more Here

Consumer Electronics Battery Recycling, Reprocessing, and Battery Collection DE-FOA-0002897

$125 million;
Funding projects focusing on recycling of electronics batteries and battery-containing devices;
Increasing consumer participation in the recycling of batteries and battery-containing devices;
Concept Papers Due 8/17, Full applications due 11/29

Read more Here

EPA 2023 Clean School Bus (CSB) Grant Program

$400 million in competitive grant funding for zero-emission school buses, clean school buses, and EVSE.
Two grant categories: school district and Tribal applicants; and third-party applicants.
Priority given to replace buses serving high-need local education agencies, rural areas, Tribal school districts and public school districts receiving basic support payments for students living on Tribal land, and rural areas.
At least 40% of the funding will go to disadvantaged communities.
Grant deadline: Tuesday, August 22.

Webinar Info Here

Grant Info Here

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New Updates, Regulations, and Requirements

Sacramento Clean Cities Sponsors Make The News

GM EV Production Drops

GM has stopped EV production in their Ontario, Canada plant and significantly slowed EV production one of their Detroit plants. Some reports indicate the slow-downs are due to battery shortages and other reports indicate sales have dropped.

Read more Here

Alternative Fuel Insight

Bosch Pushes Hydrogen

Auto technology giant Bosch is starting production of fuel cells, and anticipates sales of fuel cells, hydrogen combustion engines and electrolyzers to hit $3.5B.

Read more Here

VW Wireless Charging

VW has demonstrated wireless charging at 120kW with a goal of charging at 300kW, using silicon-carbide inverter.

Read more Here

EV Jump Start Funding Lane is OPEN!

EV commercial fleet users in tribes, schools in DACs & nonprofits are eligible
$183 million for infrastructure incentives for ZEV technology
Funding closes on August 18, 2023

Read more Here

LCFS Renewable Fuel Pathways

California Average Grid Electricity Carbon Intensity: California average grid electricity used as a transportation fuel in California: 79.43 to 81.49gCO2e/MJ.

CARB Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Credits-$72.50

Check CARB Carton Intensity (CI) Pathways Here

Conferences and Programs

Electric Truck DEPOT Bootcamp

The North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) is offering a free ten-session series of one hour webinars covering the requirements for electrifying a truck depot. The webinars will run from 10am - 11am every other Tuesday from April 25 through September 5.

Please register Here