The Joint Office announced the Communities Taking Charge Accelerator, a new federal grant initiative offering $54,000,000 to academic, non-profit, for-profit, and governmental bodies for planning, demonstration, and/or deployment endeavors fostering innovative, equitable clean transportation solutions. The grant focuses on three key areas:
- Addressing No-Home Charging: Supporting e-mobility charging solutions for individuals lacking access to home charging for their electric vehicles and mobility devices (e.g., cars, e-bikes, e-scooters, electric wheelchairs, etc.).
- Enhancing E-Mobility Solutions: Funding charging and deployment solutions for electrified ultra-light, micro, light, and medium-duty fleets engaged in shared rides, shared vehicles (including micromobility), transit operations, and last-mile delivery services to communities.
- Managed Charging for Reliable Energy: Backing projects expediting solutions in the EV charging ecosystem, including specifications for end-to-end managed charging functionality, to optimize infrastructure use and mitigate impacts on the electrical grid.
Prospective applicants must first submit a concept paper by the deadline of 5/20/2024. This concept paper serves as a prerequisite for the subsequent full application.
The Michigan Infrastructure Office Technical Assistance Center (TAC) is dedicated to aiding communities in accessing federal discretionary funding for infrastructure projects, enhancing services for Michiganders, and promoting clean energy objectives. Although the Michigan Infrastructure Office is unable to offer support for the concept paper due by 5/20/2024, they are readily available to entertain requests for technical assistance for your full application (due 7/16/2024) should you proceed with submitting the concept paper independently. Please reach out to Kris Brady, for technical assistance at Bradyk4@michigan.gov for the full application process.
Karey Hamrick, Clean Fuels Michigan’s Transportation Resources Coordinator, can also help form project teams. If you have any questions, reach out to Karey at karey@cleanfuelsmi.org.
