Equitable Mobility
Funding Opportunities
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The funding is administered by the Joint Office through DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). Topic areas in the Joint Office’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 funding opportunity include:
Solving for No-Home Charging: Expanding Charging Access for Privately Owned E-Mobility
Expanding E-Mobility Solutions through Electrified Micro, Light and Medium-Duty Fleets
Managed Charging for Clean Reliable Energy.
Submission Deadline for Concept Papers: May 20, 2024
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The Clean Energy to Communities (C2C) program provides communities with expertise and tools to achieve their clean energy goals through in-depth partnerships, peer-learning cohorts, and expert match.
Funding amount per award: Up to $500,000
Technical assistance amount per award: Up to $3.5 million
In-Depth Partnerships: Register for the informational webinar on April 18 and submit proposals by June 14.
Peer-Learning Cohorts: Register for the informational webinar on April 10 and apply by April 30.
Expert Match: Apply now
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Grants for income-qualified Bay Area residents to retire their older car and replace it with a hybrid, plug-in hybrid, battery, or hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle, or a pre-paid card to use for public transit and purchase e-bikes.
The program is currently open and accepting applications
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Submissions will be highlighted on a rolling basis
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The CPRG program encourages GHG reduction measures that accelerate decarbonization across various sectors, including transportation, electric power, buildings, industry, waste management, and agriculture. It supports initiatives that achieve significant GHG reductions by 2030 and provide immediate benefits to communities. These measures can include electrification, renewable energy projects, transportation management programs, clean heat standards, energy efficiency improvements, and methane emission reduction strategies.
Applications are due April 1, 2024 for the general competition and May 1, 2024 for the Tribes and territories competition.
Learn More Here:
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EPA is accepting applications on a rolling basis for $2 billion in Inflation Reduction Act funding available to support community-driven projects that build capacity for communities to tackle environmental and climate justice challenges, strengthen their climate resilience, and advance clean energy.
Track I applications – Community-Driven Investments for Change will focus on multi-faceted applications with Climate Action and Pollution Reduction Strategies to meaningfully improve the environmental, climate, and resilience conditions affecting disadvantaged communities.
Track II applications – Meaningful Engagement for Equitable Governance will facilitate the engagement of disadvantaged communities in governmental processes to advance environmental and climate justice.
Applications are due November 21, 2024.
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The California Energy Commission (CEC) announces the availability of up to $40,500,000 in grant funds for projects that will strategically deploy high-powered direct current fast charger (DCFC) electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure and establish an interconnected network to facilitate data collection, access, and reliability.
Pre-Application Workshop: November 9, 2023
Submission Deadline: January 26, 2024
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The purpose of the Charging Infrastructure for Government Fleets Solicitation is to:
Support electrification of government fleets in California by providing reliable and readily accessible electric vehicle charging infrastructure dedicated for these fleets.
Support local government goals of sustainability and/or climate action plans.
Reduce vehicle emissions in disadvantaged and/or low-income communities.
Pre-Application Workshop: Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Submission Deadline: April 5, 2024
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The purpose of this solicitation is to fund technology demonstration and deployment projects that support the approved Electric Program Investment Charge 2021–2025 (EPIC 4) Investment Plan’s strategic objective to increase the value proposition of distributed energy resources to customers and the grid. This solicitation’s research topics fall under the EPIC 4 Transportation Electrification Initiative.
Pre-Application Workshop: January 18, 2024
Submission Deadline: March 29, 2024
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The purpose of this solicitation is to provide funding for Tribes, Tribal Organizations, and Tribally-owned businesses for:
Project Activity 1 – EV Charging Infrastructure: installing charging infrastructure for passenger and medium- and heavy-duty (MDHD) EV charging equipment, supporting infrastructure, and associated resiliency technologies.
Project Activity 2 – EV Infrastructure Planning: activities to support tribal participation in future EV funding opportunities and to enable tribes to plan for EV adoption.
Project Activity 3 – EV Workforce Training and Development: activities that support careers in EVs, EV infrastructure, and EV-related technologies.
Submission Deadline: April 24, 2024
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The Low or No Emission competitive program provides funding to state and local governmental authorities for the purchase or lease of zero-emission and low-emission transit buses as well as acquisition, construction, and leasing of required supporting facilities. Learn More Here
The Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Competitive Program (49 U.S.C. 5339(b)) makes federal resources available to states and direct recipients to replace, rehabilitate and purchase buses and related equipment and to construct bus-related facilities, including technological changes or innovations to modify low or no emission vehicles or facilities. Funding is provided through formula allocations and competitive grants. Learn More Here
FTA will host two webinars to provide information to potential applicants, including a review of program eligibility, an overview of the evaluation criteria and selection considerations, and the submission process.
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The Department of Energy (DOE) announced $15 million in new funding for projects that will advance deployment of technologies critical to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector. The funding will drive innovation in equitable clean transportation and is aligned with strategies detailed in the U.S. National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization.
Topic areas include:
Clean Cities Outreach, Engagement, and Technical Assistance
Training on Zero Emission Vehicle and Infrastructure Technologies for Critical Emergency Response Workers
Clean Transportation Demonstration and Deployment.
Concept Paper Deadline: March 12, 2024
Full Application Deadline: April 30, 2024.
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The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved a $1.9 billion investment plan that accelerates progress on the state’s electric vehicle (EV) charging and hydrogen refueling goals. These investments will help deploy infrastructure for light, medium, and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) across California, creating the most extensive charging and hydrogen refueling network in the country.
Resources
Building a Clean Economy
The White House
A guidebook to the Inflation Reduction Act’s investments in clean energy and climate action
EPA’s Implementation Framework for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund
EPA
Detailed descriptions of key parameters and anticipated application components for the grant competitions that EPA expects to administer under the GGRF program.
ZEV Funding Resources
Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development
ZEV funding resources for stakeholders, including vehicle incentives, infrastructure incentives, fleet resources, financing programs, the California budget and funding plans, and additional search tools.
Electric Mobility Infrastructure Funding and Financing for Urban Areas
U.S. Department of Transportation
The programs described in this toolkit can serve as a starting place for identifying funding. This section focuses on Federal programs and provides tips and guidance for navigating the Federal funding process in the following subsections.