Funded Projects
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded more than $525 million since 1998 through its funding opportunities in support of Technology Integration projects across the country to implement alternative fuels and energy efficient vehicle technologies. These project awards contribute to advancing affordable, domestic transportation fuels, energy efficient mobility systems, and other fuel-saving technologies and practices. For information about applying for funding, watch an Information Session Series with recorded videos explaining the Vehicle Technologies Office funding opportunity announcement process and application components.
This is a partial list of recently funded Technology Integration projects:
- Understanding transportation electrification in public and private fleets.
- Integrating alternative fuel vehicles and fueling infrastructure in urban and rural communities.
- Implementing living lab projects that demonstrate and assess new mobility solutions that maximize the return on investment to mobility systems in terms of time, cost, energy, and opportunity.
- Developing fueling and charging stations along busy transportation corridors.
- Providing resiliency planning through diversified vehicle and fueling options.
- Securing real-world data on total cost of ownership for alternative fuels.
DOE VTO transportation projects are competitively awarded and cost-shared. Coalition-supported projects have historically leveraged almost 2:1 in matching funds and in-kind contributions from private and public sector partners.
The following project summaries draw out lessons learned and key considerations that could be leveraged by others pursuing similar projects. These lessons learned include best practices for engaging stakeholders, strategies for improving the equitable distribution of project benefits, site selection factors, and permitting/policy elements that could impact the project.
- Curbside EV Charging: To expand electric vehicle (EV) adoption, it is necessary to find and demonstrate solutions that enable people without home charging to charge their vehicle. Curbside charging, including chargers attached to streetlights or other poles, seeks to fill this gap by increasing the locations where consumers can charge their vehicles.
- EV Car Share: Car shares are short-term rentals that enable access to a vehicle for those without their own without the high cost of ownership. Establishing EV car shares reduces emissions and creates awareness of EV benefits in more communities. Car shares can also be used for gig drivers who use the EVs for ride hailing, food and meal delivery, and similar services.
- EV Charging for Multifamily Housing: Achieving a high level of transportation decarbonization requires EV adoption beyond just people with access to garages or other dedicated off-street parking that allow them to charge their EVs while at home. Residents of multifamily housing (apartment complexes, condominiums, etc.) are a critical target for expanding the potential market for EVs, and multifamily housing residents will be more likely to adopt EVs if charging solutions to fit their needs are available. Learn from DOE-funded projects that included innovative approaches to deploying EV chargers at multifamily housing, including implementing EV car share programs.
- EV Mobility Hubs: EV mobility hubs allow for charging multiple vehicles and other electrified transport modes such as electric buses or e-bikes. Funded projects developed strong local and regional partnerships to support increased use of EVs. Strong partnerships can efficiently cut through regulatory and market barriers to technology introduction.
