The City of San José airport has implemented several initiatives to reduce its environmental impact and promote more sustainable transportation. It uses electric vehicles for airfield operations to reduce air and carbon pollution. The airport also installed electric vehicle chargers for customers and is working with airlines to convert equipment to electric. Additionally, the airport operates a comprehensive alternative fuels program, converting its shuttle buses and a quarter of taxis to compressed natural gas, and now 25% of its overall fleet uses alternative fuels.

1. Northern California Green Airport Fleet Partnership Workshop / Expo
June 25, 2014
Bob Guerra
Regulatory Environmental
Compliance Officer
City of San José

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• In 2010 Facilities Division of the Airport made a shift to
using Electric Vehicles for their daily operations on the
airfield. Since these vehicles do not need to travel on
commercial roadways, the Airport can reduce their impact
on air quality and reduce the carbon footprint of their
operations.
• These electric vehicles require Level 1 charging which is a
simple 110V, 3-prong outlet are available in offices, home
walls, and garages.
• SJC has installed EV 8 chargers in the hourly parking
south of Terminal B to serve customer vehicles while
parked at the Airport. The chargers were provided through
an air quality settlement by California Air Resources Board
along with a grant to Southwest Airlines to install Ground
Support Equipment (GSE) chargers. Southwest is in the
process of converting their GSE fleet to electric to reduce
their air quality impact.
Electric Vehicles

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• SJC has a comprehensive Alternative Fuels Program (AFP) that
provides incentives to encourage tenants to convert their vehicles
to CNG or other alternative, cleaner burning vehicles.
• In an effort to reduce Green House Gas emissions, the Airport
converted the entire fleet of airport shuttle buses from diesel to
CNG.
• In 2002 the Airport installed a CNG fueling station to provide an
alternative fuel option for Airport shuttle buses, and taxis. The
station also sells fuel for public consumption and pumps the
equivalent of over 600,000 gallons per year.
• Through policy we require one quarter of all taxi trips to use
alternative fuels including CNG and hybrid vehicles. The airport
taxi fleet has 91 CNG vehicles and twenty hybrid cars.
• Out of 300 taxis permitted to operate at the Airport, currently 119
are now CNG taxis. Since 2000, the Airport has only purchased
alternate-fuel vehicles. Approximately 25% of the Airport fleet of
vehicles is now CNG vehicles.
Alternative Fuels Program (AFP)

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