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CA-2024-096

Cooperative Agreement

Overview

Grant Description
Application purpose: The purpose of this project is to research and assess the barriers to adoption for zero-emission transit buses.

This work will encompass the research demonstration and/or validation of zero-emission adoption-enabling technologies, workforce constraints, supply chain issues, and numerous additional factors that may be hindering the industry from adoption of zero-emission vehicles and infrastructure.

Activities performed: CALSTART will be researching innovating technologies and tools, in some cases deploying and validating these with industry stakeholders such as transit agencies, state DOTs, OEMs, and component suppliers.

These technologies will be focused on overcoming barriers within the transit market that are hindering the adoption of zero-emission technologies and infrastructure.

Expected outcomes: CALSTART will submit reports and provide presentations on technology deployments to the FTA and the transit industry nationally.

These outcomes will help the transit industry stakeholders speed the adoption of zero-emission technologies.

Intended beneficiaries: Transit agencies, OEMs, utilities, and infrastructure providers across the US are the intended beneficiaries.

Subrecipient activities: None.
Awardee
Funding Goals
TO ORGANIZE RESEARCH AND DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS SUPPORTING TRANSIT ZERO-EMISSION BUS (ZEB) DEVELOPMENT AND COMMERCIALIZATION
Place of Performance
California United States
Geographic Scope
State-Wide
Related Opportunity
NOT APPLICABLE
Analysis Notes
Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 86% from $6,050,000 to $11,234,165.
Calstart was awarded Zero-Emission Transit Bus Adoption Research Project Cooperative Agreement CA-2024-096 worth $8,987,332 from the FTA Office of Budget and Policy in July 2024 with work to be completed primarily in California United States. The grant has a duration of 3 years 5 months and was awarded through assistance program 20.530 Public Transportation Innovation. $2,246,833 (20.0%) of this Cooperative Agreement was funded by non-federal sources.

Status
(Ongoing)

Last Modified 9/23/24

Period of Performance
7/16/24
Start Date
12/31/27
End Date
32.0% Complete

Funding Split
$9.0M
Federal Obligation
$2.2M
Non-Federal Obligation
$11.2M
Total Obligated
80.0% Federal Funding
20.0% Non-Federal Funding

Activity Timeline

Interactive chart of timeline of amendments to CA-2024-096

Transaction History

Modifications to CA-2024-096

Additional Detail

Award ID FAIN
CA-2024-096
SAI Number
CA-2024-096-02-20.530
Award ID URI
SAI EXEMPT
Awardee Classifications
Nonprofit With 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other Than An Institution Of Higher Education)
Awarding Office
69A445 FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION
Funding Office
693JJ8 OFFICE OF BUDGET AND POLICY(TBP)
Awardee UEI
TMKJX6NMPTF3
Awardee CAGE
0XGY2
Performance District
CA-27
Senators
Dianne Feinstein
Alejandro Padilla
Modified: 9/23/24