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Project Get Ready City Meeting Summary January 5, 2010

Attendees on Call

Kelly Kilbert – Kansas City Energy

Joel Pointon – Sempra Energy

Allan Gale – Ford

Matt Mattila – RMI

Tripp Hyde – RMI

Mike Waters – Progress Energy

Alex Keros – General Motors

Al Dahlberg – Rhode Island/Brown

Chris Pauly – Underwriters Laboratories

Larry Kinder – Kansas City/Lilypad

Scott Simms – Bonneville Power

Robin Broder – EmPower CES

Clark Hochgraf – RIT

Joe Bablo – Underwriters Laboratories

Witt Sparks – NREL

 George Beard – Portland

Costa Samaras - Carnegie Mellon

Ericka Graham – Raleigh

Cecilia Fernandez- Toronto

Amy Dobrikova – Bright Automotive

Matthew Marshall – City of Denver

Hiroko Kawai – RMI

Paul Scott – Plug in America

Marc Geller – Plug in America

Brian Verprauskus – Nissan

Mark Dehner – Kansas City

Dave Patterson – Mitsubishi

James Tillman - City of Houston

Ben Marans – Toronto Atmospheric Fund


Executive Summary

  • RMI updates on recent developments
    • New partners, recent meetings, and website developments
  • City updates on charging infrastructure installation, vehicle procurement, and utility integration
  • Overview of freight electrification opportunities
  • Questions for technical advisers including ADA compliance
  • Next steps

RMI Update

  • Discussing opportunities to work with EDTA as a resource for information
    • NPVI- new site as data aggregator
  • Meeting with Electrification Coalition
    • Seeking feedback on PEV supporting legislation
  • Meeting with Clinton Climate Initiative
    • Looking to share information and improve collaboration
  • How can we benefit from the above potential relationships?

New Partnerships

  • Underwriter Laboratories
    • Providing certifications for products within industry (whole scope of EVSE and standards developments)

City Updates

Denver

·       Potential for Toyota to put 15 plug-ins in Boulder. 10 in Denver. Portion will be given to homeowners to test how they will interact with and affect the grid

·       Go Smart Technologies (Denver start-up) manufacturing a residential charging unit. Models are coming off the line this month

·       QM – Drive Train – working with Coda Automotive. Bought $7.5 million facility to expand production

·       Denver is beginning to budget level 1 charge points across city. Many will be existing outlets but with signage to raise profile

·       As demand increases, sites may be upgraded to level 2

Rhode Island

·       Launching program Jan 20. Went through strategy process last summer, finalized in Sept

·       Reaching out to large organizations across state to encourage installation of charge points. Emphasis on workplace charging and free charging for employees

·       Planning to release list of leading companies before Memorial Day

·       Interested in EVSE, expediting permitting for charge spots

·       Working with National Grid

Houston

·       New Mayor is supporter of EVs

·       Working with major grocery chains and parking garages

·       Putting a plan together for 400 locations of level 3 stations

·       Nissan leaf is coming February 5th

·       Deploying charging stations signs

·       48 hour turnover for charging station application and approval

·       Looking into establishing preferred, certified electricians for installation

Toronto

·       Mayor represented city and C-40 and EV network in Copenhagen

·       City of Toronto council passed Sustainability plan. – continue work on activities to facilitate uptake of EVs in corp. and govt fleets

·       Formally launched EV 300 initiative – aimed at getting 300 EVs on the road in Toronto by 2012. Working with multiple stakeholders

·       Create buyers club, bringing together public/private fleet managers. Peer to peer, technical support

·       Bringing together Province of Ontario, city of Toronto,  Toronto hydro fleets.

·       Looking at how EVs operate in fleets, real on the road numbers

·       Performing analyses – how weather affects performance of vehicle and battery

·       Toronto Hydro – v2g studies. Smart meters deployed with TOU pricing. Getting a good understanding of grid interaction

·       Province of Ontario is launching plug in incentive of $10,000  desire buyers club in place

working with public/private fleets to work on education
receiving excellent media attention.

Portland

·       EV Roadmap concept to assess current state and create plan to move forward

·       ETEC Nissan initiative moving forward

·       2010 action plan developing

·       Working with public opinion research firm. Public and political research.

-Have begun to track what citizens know and think about EVs.

-Very high enthusiasm but gaps between what people know and should know. Helpful knowledge for public information campaign

·       No performance measures yet, work in progress. Plan to have this in place, to track milestones

·       Concentrate efforts around broad applications of EVs. Previous attention has been given to 4-5 person vehicle. Pay more attention to bikes and trucks

·       evroadmap.com – proceedings from workshop. Willing to chat with anyone in PGR community

Indianapolis

·         Secured additional OEM partners Think and Smart. Think will begin North American production of their EV in Elkhart Indiana and contribute 50-100 vehicles to Project Plug-IN in Summer of 2010. Smart has selected Indianapolis as a launch market for their ForTwo EV and will provide 50 per-production vehicles to Project Plug-IN late Summer 2010.

·         Utility partners Duke Energy and Indianapolis Power & Light (IPL) hosted a workshop for the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission regarding Project Plug-IN. Nissan, Smart, and RMI spoke at the workshop which focused on the utilities plans to provide charging infrastructure (approx 200-300 sites)for the Project Plug-IN demonstration as well as develop an ongoing pilot program to provide charging infrastructure to utility customers who purchase plug-in vehicles.

·         Project Plug-IN has added ITOCHU Corporation (Japan) as a corporate partner and they will provide battery management systems and DC to DC charging stations.  Additionally, Project Plug-IN will become a sister project to a similar pilot led by ITOCHU in Tskuba Japan involving Mazda, Tokyo Power and Electric Company, and others.


Raleigh

·        Have developed Permit Application Process for Electrical Vehicle Service Equipment (EVSE) Installation; Residential and Commercial

·        Working on Prequalifying Guidelines for Potential EVSE Locations

·        Raleigh is on the Nissan Leaf  Promotion Tour – January 29, 2010

·        Developing in-house training for electrical inspectors on potential installation scenarios

·        Developing  an Incentives Plan for Potential EVSE Locations

·        Developing a City Sustainable Mapping Program to include locations of EVSE

·        PGR Task Force meeting bi-weekly to discuss updates (task force to include City of Raleigh Sustainability, Inspections, Fleet Managers, City Planning; Advanced Energy and Progress Energy)

Freight Electrification Opportunities

·       Freight trucks use a lot of fuel and can save quite a bit of it with electric power systems.

·       Many technologies that make use of battery technology are currently available and market ready

·       Charging stations can benefit freight trucks in the same way as passenger vehicles with common infrastructure

Updates from Technical Advisers

San Diego Gas and Electric

·       Working with groups relative to permit situation – statistics about time that took to install. Southern Cal. Edison

·       San Diego is testing ground for infrastructure

·       Talking to electrical inspectors

·       One of aspects of ETEC is training program for inspectors

·       Chair person for clean cities coalition. and manager for SDG&E

·       ETEC will provide data before summary from DOE comes out

·       Looking for real time information.

·       Instituting rule making from California PUCub. Affects PG&E, SoCal Edison, SDG&E

·       Hands are tied on infrastructure until rules are put in place

·       Putting together experimental rates – see what consumer behavior is relative to different rate structures/ charging behavior

·       Real-time roll-out in tandem with Nissan rolllout

·       Meeting on Jan 22nd with all utilities, CARB, CEC, OEMs, Coulomb, Better Place

Questions for Tech Advisers

How is Houston managing charging station installations at multiple levels?

·       Most charging will be at home, as opposed to on the street. though there will be on the street. Chargers had some issues as they were chipped for Europe

·       Houston wants to be early adopters but not to be first in charging world. The 400 charging stations is a conceptual business plan

Trucking/Freight Question: is it feasible to make existing electric truck stations personal vehicle chargers?

·       It is likely feasible, but right now they are for trucking
ADA Compliance and Infrastructure Questions

·       BC Hydro – addressed compliance. Recommendations for parking stalls. Attached document

·       Have you done any work to site and identify locations for infrastructure? How do you locate?

·       Already have an installed infrastructure. Some people felt burned by EVs not coming true

·       What has changed from 10 years ago? Back then car makers were mandated to produce cars. Now they want to

·      London is partnering with grocery chain to test neighborhood deployment.

·       Success in Japan with convenience stores.