The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded a $24,842,632 Project Grant to the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) under the Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Program (CFDA 66.049), established under the Inflation Reduction Act. The funding will enable SCAQMD to replace up to 74 eligible, non-zero-emission Class 6 and 7 heavy-duty vehicles, such as school buses, with new zero-emission electric vehicles. The grant will also cover the purchase and installation of 74 new...
This $8,933,333 federal Project Grant award was provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Program (CFDA 66.049) established by the Inflation Reduction Act. It will fund the replacement of several eligible Class 6 and Class 7 internal combustion engine heavy-duty vehicles operated by the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District (doing business as Valley Air District) with new zero-emission vehicles. The project also includes...
This $20,374,355 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Program (CFDA 66.049) provides funding to the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to replace numerous existing non-zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles, such as school buses, with new zero-emission vehicles. The award will also support the purchase and installation of charging infrastructure and workforce development training for maintaining and operating the new...
This $4,500,000 Project Grant, awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (CFDA 66.039) program, will fund the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) to replace up to 22 model year 2010 or newer heavy-duty class 8 diesel trucks with new zero-emission drayage trucks. This project aims to reduce emissions of diesel particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, and diesel air toxics within the South Coast Air Quality Basin. The...
This Project Grant award, totaling $4,552,500, is provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Program (CFDA 66.049) established by the Inflation Reduction Act. The funding will enable the Oxnard School District to replace 15 in-use, non-zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles with new zero-emission vehicles, such as electric school buses. This effort aims to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in EPA Region 9. In addition to the...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), through its Targeted Airshed Grant Program (CFDA #66.956), awarded a $5,000,000 project grant to the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) to demonstrate the deployment of six (6) Daimler (Freightliner) Class 8 hydrogen fuel cell (HFC) trucks. SCAQMD will implement this demonstration project through a subaward, leasing the zero-emission HFC trucks to various fleet operators in Southern California. The project aims to accelerate...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), through its Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Program (CFDA 66.049) under the Inflation Reduction Act, awarded a $25,958,482 project grant to the Utah Department of Environmental Quality (UDEQ). The funding will enable UDEQ to replace 83 eligible non-zero-emission Class 6 and 7 heavy-duty vehicles, including straight/box trucks and step vans, with new zero-emission vehicles to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in Utah's Box Elder, Cache,...
This Project Grant award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Program (CFDA 66.049) provides $762,750 in funding to the City of Pico Rivera to replace three diesel-powered Class 6 and 7 heavy-duty vehicles with new zero-emission vehicles.
The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include:
Replacement of three diesel vehicles with zero-emission vehicles
Installation of three DC fast chargers at the municipal...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 awarded the South Coast Air Quality Management District a $7,998,024 Project Grant under the Targeted Airshed Grant Program (CFDA 66.956). The grant will fund two projects to reduce mobile source emissions in the South Coast Air Basin in California: 1) A demonstration of long-haul zero-emission fuel cell electric trucks; and 2) The replacement of legacy diesel school buses with zero-emission battery-electric school buses. These projects aim to...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Program (CFDA 66.049), will fund the replacement of approximately 60 Class 6 and 7 heavy-duty vehicles operated by the Port of Oakland with new zero-emission battery electric delivery trucks. The $10.5 million award will also support the installation of charging infrastructure at three logistics centers in Oakland, San Francisco, and Richmond, California....
This Project Grant award, provided by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Program (CFDA 66.049), will fund the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) to replace approximately 126 eligible non-zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles with new zero-emission vehicles in EPA Region 9. The $33,898,522 in federal funding will cover the costs to purchase, install, operate, and maintain charging and fueling infrastructure, as well as provide workforce development and training to support the transition to zero-emission technologies. The project aims to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, with estimated annual emission reductions of 599,236 MT CO2E, 29,434 lbs of NOX, 558 lbs of PM2.5, and 775 lbs of diesel particulate matter. This grant award is part of the Inflation Reduction Act's efforts to accelerate the adoption of clean heavy-duty vehicles and support equitable benefits for impacted communities in the South Coast Air Basin region of California.