Have regional stakeholder group assist in the formation of such a groups at the state level

Solution Details:

Pain Point:  How will we manage the accelerated adoption of plug-ins in our city?

General Implementation Strategy:  Create collaborative body with diverse stakeholders to support PGR

Primary Actors:  State Government, City Government, Stakeholder Groups

Other solutions to this pain point:

• Facilitate plug-in infrastructure workshops
• Establish a public charging infrastructure plan
• Establish a local/state incentive plan
• Create a local marketing and educational outreach plan
• Facilitate emergency response training
• Fast-track health and safety codes that address plug-in charging equipment
• Participate in Project Get Ready convening opportunities
• Leverage the collaborative power of a dedicated project leader
• Tie project leaders performance measures to the actual number of plug-ins adop
• Ensure Project Leader Collaborates with city planner, mayor and public works director
• Establish connection between project manager and a point person on the local regions' economic development board
• Create a homeowners' type organization to align regulatory, commercial and community interests in specific neighborhoods
• Form sub committees for stakeholder group
• Promote summary of benefits document to decision makers
• Involve public citizens in regional incentive development

Other solutions that fall into this general strategy:

• Create a homeowners' type organization to align regulatory, commercial and community interests in specific neighborhoods
• Form sub committees for stakeholder group
• Promote summary of benefits document to decision makers
• Involve public citizens in regional incentive development

Other solutions for this primary actor:

• Provide grants to develop and deploy innovative plug-in technologies
• Support public school access to plug-in related studies
• Maximize the production of clean tech engineers, scientists and business leaders
• Invest in technical education and worker transition assistance for plug-in service people
• Provide infrastructure grants and loans
• CO2 tax and rebate system for vehicles
• Provide rebate to green developers and commercial retailers
• No-fee for updating registration, free emissions testing, etc.
• Provide insurance discount
• Public investments in plug-in infrastructure match private-sector investments or vice versa
• City/state governments commit to buying/funding a certain number of plug-ins
• Welcome responsible use of conversions
• Incentivize/subsidize non-traditional OEMs
• Allow low speed plug-ins to operate within city
• Ensure plug-ins are used as high-profile vehicles
• Explore/support secondary battery markets
• Bundle key incentives at point of sale
• Eliminate DMV and registration fees
• Sales tax exemption
• Pooled-purchase plug-in orders
• State-level tax rebate program
• Provide plug-in vehicle grants and loans
• Federal or state feebates
• R&D and implementation incentives for conversion market
• Access to HOV lanes
• Provide a centralized hub for incentive information
• Big city decals, special license plates to show off

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