Clean Cities Releases Funding Opportunity Announcement

June 21, 2015 |

In Washington, the Energy Department’s Clean Cities program announced up to $2 million to support aggregate purchasing models for plug-in electric and other alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles, subsystems, components, alternative fuels, and refueling/charging infrastructure.

Aggregated purchasing is when one central organization coordinates customers to maximize their collective buying power.

This funding will address two major barriers to the growth in production and sales of alternative fuel and advanced vehicle technologies: manufacturers’ uncertainty around demand and buyers’ high up-front costs. In addition, this funding will allow an entity to set up an aggregated purchasing system; work with fleets and other buyers to join the effort; consolidate participants’ vehicle, subsystems, component, fuel and infrastructure equipment orders; and develop best practices others can learn from. This funding will not pay for components, vehicles, fuel or infrastructure but instead aims to help original equipment manufacturers and suppliers increase production volumes, achieve economies of scale, and reduce incremental costs.

The concept papers, which are required, are due on June 29; full applications are due on August 21.

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