Forward Momentum As we head into an ambitious 2023, we want to celebrate CALSTART’s 2022 accomplishments with you. CALSTART has had many auspicious moments in our 30-year history, but few years rival 2022 for successes across our programs and initiatives in impact, awards, and policy. Our team worked hard to produce wins on multiple fronts, including issuing a landmark Zeroing in on Zero-Emission Trucks (ZET) report; staging ZET Expos; organizing Electric School Bus Network Working Groups; securing successful project proposals and awards from regional, federal, and global agencies; and, capping it all off, seeing the Biden Administration sign the Global Memorandum of Understanding (Global MOU) on Zero-Emission Medium- and HeavyDuty Vehicles. In 2022, CALSTART expanded as an organization on several fronts to support this explosion of work around the transition to zero-emission transportation: we added 92 new member organizations and more than 50 new team members (FY22); increased our administration of funding in California for zero-emission vehicles; grew federal funding for low-carbon transportation; and accelerated the international effort to deploy zero-emission commercial vehicles with 12 new signatories to the Global MOU, co-led by CALSTART and the government of the Netherlands.
2022 in Review In January, CALSTART launched the industry-leading ZET report, which provided insight on ZET market trends as the industry prepared for an injection of federal funding for charging infrastructure; multiple states implemented clean truck regulations; and California prepared to release an additional $873 million in purchase incentives for commercial vehicles and infrastructure. In February, CALSTART held its Driving California Forward policy summit, with key policymakers, CALSTART members, and industry leaders participating in discussions regarding forwardthinking policy solutions to achieve California’s ambitious climate goals and zero-emission vehicle targets. The event focused on effectively leveraging newly available funding and solving next-level challenges to attain goals set by Governor Newsom’s Executive Order and the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB’s) Advanced Clean Trucks regulation. The Department of Energy awarded $4 million in April to promote partnerships and programs to increase workplace charging, and as a result, CALSTART’s Charge@Work is collaborating with FORTH and Columbia-Willamette Clean Cities to lead a workplace charging program over three years. Charge@Work is a national education and outreach campaign to increase awareness of and installation of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at workplaces. May brought the ACT Expo to the Long Beach Convention Center, with more than 75 advanced vehicles and hundreds of suppliers providing a look into current and future technology trends. CALSTART and our members were well represented, especially in the popular Ride & Drive that gave attendees a chance to try clean energy transportation from the driver’s seat.