Explore our current projects below

 

In 2022, the San Francisco Environment Department (SFE) in partnership with San Francisco Clean Cities and Communities Coalition (SFCCC) accepted a $2.4 million grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to implement the following four projects from San Francisco’s EV Ready Community Blueprint. 

  • Project overview

    • Transition up to 30 app-based food delivery (e.g., Doordash, Grubhub, UberEats) workers from cars to electric bikes (e-bikes) to test the impacts e-bikes have on delivery efficiency, greenhouse gas emission reductions, traffic congestion, safety, and worker income

    • Collect data from delivery workers using surveys and delivery route data

    Timeline

    • Spring 2023 to Spring 2024

    Partners

    • GRID Alternatives, San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, and Driver’s Seat Cooperative

    Additional resources

  • Project overview

    • Establish the City’s first EV Ombudsperson, a central point of contact for EV charging service providers and developers

    • Boost public awareness and remove institutional barriers to developing public charger installations

    • Identify new sites and hosts for more public chargers

    Timeline

    • Spring 2023 to Summer 2025

  • Project overview

    • Support the development of public fast-charging plazas, deploying at least one located in or near a disadvantaged community

    • Conduct community listening sessions and surveys in disadvantaged communities and in multiple languages to gather feedback on plaza placement

    • Provide opportunities for community members to influence plaza locations

    • Educate disadvantaged communities about current and upcoming EV rebates and the benefits of installing EV chargers

    Timeline

    • Spring 2023 to Summer 2025

    Partners

    • En2Action

 

In recent years, SSFCCC along with SFE, have advocated for and passed several clean transportation ordinances.    

  • Overview

    • Requires commercial parking lots and garages with over 100 parking spaces to install electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in at least 10% of the parking spaces  

    • Applies to approximately 90 commercial parking facilities throughout the City 

    Timeline

    • The ordinance went into effect in January 2023 

    • Applicable garages must comply or seek a waiver by January 31, 2023 

    Additional resources

  • Overview

    • Prepares the City’s building stock for upcoming EV market growth and reduces cost and other barriers to provide EV chargers to residents

    • Requires new residential, commercial, and municipal buildings, and major renovations, to have sufficient electrical infrastructure to simultaneously charge EVs (at Level 2 charging) in 20 percent of parking spaces provided

    • 10% of spaces must be fully ready for EV charger installation, 10 percent must be “EV flexible” for potential charger installations/upgrades

    Timeline

    • The ordinance went into effect in January 2018

    Additional resources

  • Overview

    • Advances the City's commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from light-duty vehicles while improving EV charging infrastructure at municipal facilities

    • Requires all light-duty passenger vehicles in the City fleet to be ZEVs by 2022

    • For vehicles parked on City owned facilities:

      • 75 percent of vehicles must be zero emission vehicles (ZEVs)

      • Up to 25 percent may be plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) with a waiver due to charging/operational challenges

    • For vehicles parked on non-City owned facilities Departments must:

      • Make every effort to purchase/lease a ZEV

      • Obtain a waiver to purchase/lease PHEV due to charging/operational challenges; no cap on how many PHEVs may be procured

    • Police safety departments and emergency response vehicles are currently exempt from requirements

    Timeline

    • SFCCC is continuing to work with fleet managers to meet ordinance requirements

    Additional Resources

 

SFCCC is developing the citywide MD/HD Zero-Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Blueprint. The Blueprint will guide the creation of an affordable and convenient charging network for 10,000 MD/HD ZEVs by 2030. The Blueprint focuses on MD/HD ZEV adoption for all fleets, large and small, ensuring none are left behind.

Project overview

  • Collect data to take inventory and analyze inter-regional and local MD/HD fleets 

  • Develop a Charging Infrastructure Map to identify optimal MD/HD charging locations to serve the municipal fleet and small- and medium-sized commercial fleet 

  • Identify actions, policies, and innovations to make the chargers on the Charging Infrastructure Map a reality 

Timeline

  • Summer 2021 to Fall 2024 

Partners

  • San Francisco Central Shops, Arup, SKS Consulting