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Project	Initiative/Award	Awardee	Status	Date
Drive Electric Orlando	Alternative Fuel Vehicle Deployment Initiatives	Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services - Office of Energy	In progress	Mar 2015
States impacted: Florida	Drive Electric Orlando The Drive Electric Orlando project is a large-scale effort to address one of the core barriers to widespread plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) adoption: increasing consumer familiarity with the technology. Over the two-year project period, this project will allow thousands of visitors from across the United States to rent a PEV in Orlando. The project taps into the largest rental car market in the country by providing PEVs for a multi-day test drive. In addition to making the vehicles available, the project will use incentives such as equitable rental rates and theme park incentives to promote these rentals. Learn more about the Alternative Fuel Vehicle Deployment Initiatives.	$400,000 award from DOE $449,000 matching funds (cost share) Partners Central Florida Clean Cities Coalition

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Initiative/Award

Awardee

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Drive Electric Orlando

Alternative Fuel Vehicle Deployment Initiatives

Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services - Office of Energy

In progress

Mar 2015

States impacted:

Florida

Drive Electric Orlando

The Drive Electric Orlando project is a large-scale effort to address one of the core barriers to widespread plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) adoption: increasing consumer familiarity with the technology. Over the two-year project period, this project will allow thousands of visitors from across the United States to rent a PEV in Orlando. The project taps into the largest rental car market in the country by providing PEVs for a multi-day test drive. In addition to making the vehicles available, the project will use incentives such as equitable rental rates and theme park incentives to promote these rentals.

Learn more about the Alternative Fuel Vehicle Deployment Initiatives.

$400,000 award from DOE

$449,000 matching funds (cost share)

Partners

Central Florida Clean Cities Coalition

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