This $150,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program aims to develop an experiential learning curriculum to upskill existing automotive technicians for maintaining and repairing electric vehicles (EVs). The University of Alabama, the prime awardee, will work with industry and educational partners to: Understand current EV training needs through co-design and surveys with automotive technicians. Develop a multi-stage...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports collaborative research to study the placement of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations and their broader impacts on community mobility, business resilience, and social equity. The $150,271 award to Northeastern University aims to develop an optimization and visualization platform to help policymakers and businesses evaluate EV charging station...
This $149,786 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research into the placement of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations and their broader social and economic impacts. The project integrates computational social science, urban resilience, behavioral science, and complex systems modeling to optimize the deployment of EV charging infrastructure in a way that boosts the economic...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $2,296,542 Cooperative Agreement to Evgo Services LLC to develop low-cost tools for enabling third-party interoperability testing for electric vehicles (EVs) and electric vehicle service equipment (EVSE) with the ISO-15118 plug and charge standard. The project also aims to develop conformance testing to define current and future iterations of the standard to promote widespread interoperability and...
The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $6,934,670 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086) to the Interstate Renewable Energy Council Inc. (IREC) to develop and implement a nationwide Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Recognition and Technical Assistance Program, titled "ChargingSmart." The objective is to significantly reduce the soft costs of new EV charging installations...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy has awarded a $3,552,522 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program to the Central Pines Regional Council, also known as the North Carolina Association of Regional Councils of Government. The objective of this 1-year project is to assess the performance, reliability, usability, and safety of AC Level 2 and DC Fast Charging (DCFC) stations across all 50 states, the...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program provides $6,046,425 to deploy an Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Interoperability Test Bed. The project aims to increase industrial capacity, competition, redundancy, and broad access to validation testing and certification of Direct Current (DC) fast chargers with power ratings between 150 kilowatts...
This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program, provides $2,480,441 to Calstart, Inc. to support a regional effort to expand public investment in electric vehicle (EV) mobility programs and neighborhood-specific infrastructure for disadvantaged and low-income communities in Sacramento, California. The project will create three mobility hubs and study their...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) federal grant program provides $1,750,000 to the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) to advance zero-emission vehicle infrastructure planning and implementation at the state and local level. The project aims to ensure electric vehicle (EV) charging station infrastructure and other...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $5,493,941 Cooperative Agreement to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) Federal Grant Program. The objective of the "GRIDFAST EXPRESS" project is to establish a comprehensive national program focused on streamlining the utility interconnection process for electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, including AC Level...