VCC recently completed its 2 year eastern expansion project. A formal report was completed and submitted to the National Lab of the Rockies. This is the result of hard work by NLR, VCC, and many stakeholders in Richmond, Hampton Roads, the Eastern Shore, Northern Neck, and across the Commonwealth.
Continue Reading →2024 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 ...
Virginia Alternative Transportation Fuels Report 2024
As of December 31, 2024, there were 29,346 alternative fuel vehicles in service across 150 green fleets in Virginia. Largest sector gains in hybrid-electric (HEV) saw a +16.8 rise and electric (ELEC) saw a growth rate of +13% across the Commonwealth. Biodiesel reporting made moderate gains. Liquid petroleum gas (LPG) made moderate gains. Compressed natural gas (CNG) reporting declined at 1.1%. Ethanol E85 saw a decrease of 1%. ...
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Virginia Clean Cities Strategic Plan
Every five years, Virginia Clean Cities endeavors to develop and produce a staff and stakeholder led strategic plan for the organization. The current cycle of planning is now through the end of 2030.
To view the 2024 Strategic Plan: Click here to view or download the PDF
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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 ...
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 ...
Continue Reading →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, ...
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 task, but there are many tools that can aid localities in this process. When beginning to place or ...
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