Advanced Bus Technology Initiative: Bringing Zero Emission Bus Technology to Reality: A Campaign to Secure $150 Million in New Federal Funding CALSTART John Boesel, CEO & President Fred Silver, Vice President Clean Transportation Technologies and Solutions
CALSTART and a number of companies seeking support for a low carbon, zero emission bus initiative building off the success of the National Fuel Cell Bus Program.
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Advanced Bus Technology Initiative: Bringing Zero Emission Bus Technology to Reality:
A Campaign to Secure $150 Million in New Federal Funding
CALSTARTJohn Boesel, CEO & President
Fred Silver, Vice President
Clean Transportation Technologies and Solutions
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Agenda
• Opening and Purpose for the Briefing• CALSTART Background of Success and TEA
Bill Funding• Description of the Program and Needs• Q&A and Discussion
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Why We Are Here Today
• To mobilize support for reauthorization of a bus technology development and deployment program at a requested level of $150 million in the next surface transportation authorization bill
• To identify coalition partners that will lend their names and in-kind resources to an advocacy campaign in Washington, DC
• To outline action items going forward
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History of CALSTART Sponsored Transportation Technology
Funding Programs
• ISTEA$12 million Advanced Transportation System and Electric Vehicle Research and Development Consortia
• DARPA $130 million Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technology Program
• TEA-21 $300 million Advanced Vehicle Technologies Program
• SAFETEA-LU $60+ million National Fuel Cell Bus Technology Initiative
• NEXT-TEA $150 million Zero Emission Bus Program
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DARPA and the FTA Advanced Vehicle Programs: Critical HD Hybrid RD&D
Funding
• CALSTART played a leadership role in securing approximately $130 million early stage heavy-duty hybrid and electric bus RD&D
• Every major system hybrid drivetrain supplier to bus market took part in program
• Program lead to hybrid bus offerings by OEMs in early 2000’s
• 1998 TEA bill authorized funding for FTA Advanced Vehicle Program
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CALSTART Lead National Coalition & Secured $49 Million for FCB RD&D in TEA-
LU Bill (2005)-
Join The Team!
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FTA National Fuel Cell Bus Program – Extended thru FY10 and (2011) May result in a $70 Million +
Dollar Cumulative Program
FTA Performance Objectives
• Bus Cost – <5x – Comparable Size Transit Bus
• Durability – 4 to 6 Years or – 20,000 to 30,000 hours
• Fuel Efficiency – 2x Comparable Transit Bus
• FC Bus Performance = or > Commercial Transit Bus
• Better than 2010 HD Emissions Standards
NFCBP Achievements
• Bus Costs < 2.0 Million approaching 1.5 Million
• Fuel Cell Durability Seeing at least a Four-fold increase
– 8,000 and growing
• Fuel Efficiency – >1.7X Diesel Bus
• Acceleration, gradeability, range, top speed (close)
• Zero tailpipe emissions
FTA Program proving very successfulFuel cell & battery bus development and demos
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• Existing federal transportation reauthorization (TEA-LU) bill includes $49 million for fuel cell bus research, development, and demonstration
• CALSTART is leading national coalition to expand and augment program to include electric drive and alt fuel hybrids (>50% C02 reductions versus diesel) in next federal transportation reauthorization bill
• Request is for $150 million• Contact CALSTART’s Fred