This document proposes the establishment of an Alternative Fuel and Advanced Transportation Center to advance adoption of alternative fuel and electric vehicles in Southern California. The center would provide a central information hub and coordination between stakeholders. It would develop physical locations in Los Angeles and San Diego to convene the public and stakeholders, facilitate workforce development and regional planning, and enable collaboration between companies and agencies. The goals are to sustain the center for at least 5 years to grow adoption and commercialization of alternative fuels and vehicle technologies in the region.

1. CEC: Alternative Fuel and Advanced
Transportation Center: Summary of
Proposal
E4 Advanced Transportation Center

2. Purpose
Public Policy
To provide a central clearinghouse for public
information and a framework and process
for stakeholder coordination to advance
adoption of alt fuel and advanced vehicle
technology in Southern California

3. Goals
 Develop and launch virtual and physical center locations and keep them
open for a minimum of five years.
 Outreach to and convene members of the public as well as critical
stakeholders.
 Facilitate regional coordination in workforce development and regional
planning.
 Provide a central location for companies, researchers, and public
agencies to collaborate on alternative fuels, technology development,
intellectual property protection, prototyping, and development needs.
 Ensure the Center is sustained with strong organizational development
to grow the adoption, development, commercialization, and export of
alt fuels and advanced vehicle technology.
Public Policy

4. Great Regional Support
We integrate a wide geographic area with physical presence at LACI for Los
Angeles and CSI for San Diego and web presence from LAEDC and SMERC

5. Objectives
Objectives Actions
Charging and Infrastructure Grants & Demos
Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Grants & Demos
Autonomous Vehicles Organize Pilots and Industry Cluster
Local Industry Cluster Attract and Support Companies
Fleets, Ports and Public Transit Events, Business Attraction, Policy and
Demos
Consumer Awareness and Adoption Outreach events with partners; refuel
availability (website); dealer incentives &
training; policy

6. Status: Open for Business at LACI and CSE
Los Angeles Center
Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
411 S Hewitt Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Phone: (213) 375-8980
San Diego Center
Center for Sustainable Energy
9325 Sky Park Court, #100
San Diego, CA 92123
T: (858) 244-1177
Public Policy
New Physical Locations:
•CleanTech OC
•PortTech
•Inland Empire
http://www.advancedtransportationcenter.org/
Affiliate Organization:
•Bay Area ATC – Berkeley
•Central California – Carbon Blue
•NoCal ATC - Humbolt

7. Activities
Recent Events
 Global Clean Port Summit
 Formula e Event
 E4 Mobility Alliance monthly
Upcoming Events:
 ACT expo
 AltCar (NoCal
 Activities Requiring
Partnership Include:
Webinars
Conferences
Demos
Grants
Outreach

8. Example: Autonomous Vehicles
• Parking Garage for Museum ---$50,000 per stall
• Opens in 2023
• Uber, etc may be more commonplace
• Self Parking cars may be majority of fleet
• Many leaders have no knowledge. Senior
official “you don’t believe in that stuff?”

9. Current Developments
• BMW, Mercedes, Audi Nissan, Ford, Google and Apple have
research labs in full development
• None in Los Angeles
• Mercedes has self driving trucks
• Audi is going cross country in an autonmous car
• Mercedes is driving around San Francisco in in autonomous
office car.

10. These Are Real Photos

11. Opportunity
• Autonomous vehicles are coming much faster than we thought
• It will bring change to important areas for the Los Angeles area
– Personal transportation
– Public transportation
– Goods movement
– Land use
• We need to be proactive not reactive
• We need coordination between public and private sectors to avoid
inefficiencies

12. Policy Guide for Civic Leaders
• What is timeline for developments
• What planning changes need to be made
• What regulatory changes are necessary
• What will encourage investment here
• How does Los Angeles become the look to area
for this technology

13. Business Cluster Development
• Development should be oriented around regional strengths
– Largest automotive market – will attract pilots
– Goods movement – ports & distribution
– Public transit – multimodal plan (congestion & air quality)
– Entertainment – connected car
– Leverage aerospace and defense resources
– Open space for testing – lancaster, el toro afb
• Current leaders: Michigan, Silicon valley

14. Needed: Leadership
• OEMs want path to
commercialization
• Public spending should
be focused on new
technologies
• Regulatory and policies
aligned to new paradigm
R&D • Testing for local applications
Pilot
• Pilot communities
Deploy
• Commercialization with public
investment in regional systems

15. Goal: Regional Framework for Autonomous Vehicles
• Leadership and organization planned
• Stakeholders identified and engaged
• Test facilities identified
• Liability and insurance plan
• Areas of concentration identified (e.g. goods movement, etc.)
• Workforce needs
• Timeline to implement (milestones)
• Next step funding options