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Solution Details:

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

General Implementation Strategy:  Collaborate with other leading cities

Primary Actors:  NGO

Other solutions to this pain point:

• Have regional stakeholder group assist in the formation of similar groups on a state level
• 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
• 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:

Other solutions for this primary actor:

• Provide plug-in infrastructure information specifically for banks/financiers
• Provide utility groups with regular updates relating to recent work in the plug-in space
• Show developers how plug-in infrastructure could differentiate their product
• Highlight reduced fuel, maintenance, and servicing costs compared to ICE baseline
• Provide developers with information on charging infrastructure installation, regulation, incentives etc.
• Create business case for builders interested in installing plug-in infrastructure
• Create consumer networks
• Facilitate plug-in infrastructure workshops
• Ensure utility early adopter stories are widely shared
• Showcase a value proposition for plug-ins compared to ICE baseline
• Showcase different regulatory needs and options
• Help consumers understand full life-cycle value of battery
• Give early adopters an ambassador kit
• Traditional public service announcements
• Show consumers how much money, gas and CO2 they'll be saving/spending
• Develop a quarterly newsletter to discuss EV issues

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