2021 Tribal Energy Webinar Series: Electric Vehicles: Opportunities and Challenges

welcome to everyone i'm james jensen today's webinar chair i'm a contractor supporting the office of indian energy policy and programs tribal energy webinar series today's webinar titled electric vehicles opportunities and challenges is the fourth webinar of the 2021 due tribal energy webinar series let's go over some event details today's webinar is being recorded and we made available policy one week as of today's presentation slides will be posted on the office of indian energy's website shortly after this webinar if they're not there already we will oh the link was just posted in the in the chat so you can you can see the slides there everyone will receive a post webinar email with the link to the page where the slides in the recording will be located because we are recording this webinar all phones have been muted we will answer written questions at the end of the final presentation you can submit a question at any time by clicking on the question button located in the webinar control box on your screen and typing your question let's get started with opening remarks from lausanne appears ms pierce is a senior engineer and deployment supervisor for the office of union energy policy and programs and duty stationed in gold in colorado she is responsible for execution and deployment she is responsible for the execution and deployment program which is national and scope specifically the deployment program includes financial assistance technical assistance and education and outreach she also implements national funding opportunities and administers some of the resultant tribal energy project grants and agreements she has over 25 years of experience in project development and management and has been assisting tribes in developing their energy resources for the last 20 plus years shields a bachelors of science degree in mechanical engineering from colorado state university hosanna the virtual floor is now yours thank you james and hello everyone i joined james in welcoming you to kid hayes webinar this webinar series is sponsored by the office of the indian energy policy programs otherwise referred to as the office of indian energy um the office of indian energy is started by congress to promote indian energy development efficiency and use help to reduce or stabilize energy costs enhances strengthen indian tribal energy and economic infrastructure and to bring electric power service to indian lands and homes to provide this assistance our deployment program partners with indian tribes and alaska native villages to overcome the barriers to energy development our deployment program is composed of a three-prong approach as james mentioned consisting of financial assistance through competitive grants technical assistance and low-cost tribes and eligible tribal entities and education and capacity building this tribal energy webinar series is just one example of our education and capacity building efforts specifically the webinar series is intended to provide attendees with information on tools and resources to develop and implement tribal energy plans programs and projects to highlight tribal energy case studies and to identify business strategies tribes can use to expand their energy options and develop sustainable local economies this year's webinar series is focusing on how tribal energy projects can improve community resilience foster economic development and support environmental stewardship it is the fourth webinar of the series and we will look specifically at electric vehicles and electrical vehicle infrastructure and how tribes can help support the rapid growth of electricity power transportation we do hope that the webinar and the webinar series as whole is useful to you but we also welcome your feedback so please let us know if there are ways we can make the series better you can send feedback or suggestions to our main email at indian energy at hq.doe.gov before i turn it back to james i wanted to personally thank our presenters uh for giving up their time and preparing for and for presenting today's webinar thank you thank you thank you very much we couldn't do it without you and with that the virtual floor is yours thank you lazana before we get to the presentations i will introduce all of today's presenters for our first presentation we will hear from mark smith mark is the technology integration program manager with in the department of energy's vehicle technologies office in she's a broad portfolio on excel widespread use of advanced vehicle technologies to help reduce america's dependence on foreign oil and to provide reliable and affordable transportation choices the technology integration program portfolio includes alternative fuels fuel economy electrification energy efficient mobility systems and the alternative fuels regulatory program following mark we will have a couple of tribal case study presentations the first will be provided by jennifer ryer jennifer is an environmental specialist for the muskogee nation she has worked for the nation for five years and is committed to protecting the citizens and communities through her projects she works collaboratively collaboratively with stakeholders to identify reservation needs and solutions to these needs since working with the muskogee nation office of environmental services she has written proposals for nearly five million dollars in funding to support these needs jennifer hopes to continue to support environmental protections for many years to come our last case study will be presented by pat guin pat is a cherokee nation citizen and fourth generation oklahoman his birth upbringing education and career have all taken place within northeastern oklahoma he graduated with the best biology with the cherokee nation in 1992 where he has served in the environmental natural resources executive administration and secretary of natural resources departments currently pat is in the cherokee nations currently pat is the cherokee nation senior director of environmental resources and works on numerous department of interior epa and usda related projects dealing with environmental issues and policies additionally he directs the cherokee nation's ethnic biology program which includes the seed ban and native plant initiatives pat's non-professional life is consumed by his passion for the outdoors and sustainability issues thanks to each of our presenters for making the time to join us today with that let's get started with our first presentation mark you may proceed once your slides are up great thank you james and lasagna and uh lozana and good afternoon everybody uh appreciate the opportunity to to speak with you today uh and to let you know uh what we are working on in the vehicle technologies office at uh at doe and to talk about electric vehicles and you know the title is electric vehicles opportunities and challenges and i want to address those in a couple different ways one how we are kind of looking at the broader uh sustainable transportation sector and electrification and and what needs to be done to further advance uh the adoption of electric vehicles and infrastructure but then i want to drill down a little bit to the program i manage within the vehicle technologies office uh which is our outreach education and deployment program and to talk about uh the tools and resources and uh and other capabilities we have that can help you as you look at trying to make the move to electrification next slide please so one of the things we know is that our transportation sector is still heavily dominated by oil uh these numbers are our 2019 numbers uh but unfortunately if we do i don't have the 2020 ones yet but if i were to put up even 2015 or 2016 numbers probably doesn't look a whole lot different petroleum is still the dominant fuel for transportation almost 90 percent of our petroleum use goes to transportation and if we go to the next slide please we can see that from an emissions standpoint uh that transportation energy use uh still is responsible for a large part of of our mission of our emissions across the u.s one of the missions that we have at doe with our new leadership is to decarbonize transportation across all modes not just on-road vehicles cars and and and trucks and buses but also to look at off-road vehicles so whether that's rail marine air looking at agricultural equipment building equipment we find that often many of those vehicles and those applications used in those off-road uh uses are the ones that that are of the greatest uh polluters so so our mission is really look at the carbonizing all of transportation so uh but by 2050 we can be at net zero um i did a presentation a couple weeks ago and and somebody afterwards they said well gosh 2050 to get the net zero that that extra seems like an awfully long time government you guys sure move slow as well no it's not a question of of us moving slow it's a question of how long it takes to turn over the fleet of vehicles that is that is on the road today a good example is light duty passenger vehicles that we all own and drive there are about 255 to 260 million registered light duty vehicles across the country every year new car sales when the economy is good is probably somewhere in the 15 to 17 million unit range so 15 to 17 million new cars sold every year so if you just do that math of dividing the 15 million into 260 million you can see it takes about 15 years for that fleet to turn over if you talk to a lot of the commercial fleets like the the folks who do package delivery the fedex and the ups's many of those trucks stay on the road for 20 years plus so our our real challenge uh is to make sure that these technologies these transportation technologies that are non-polluting zero emission vehicles that those really have to be commercialized and in the market and people starting to put those into whether it's us using it for our own personal vehicles or if it's companies and governments and and others using it for their own fleet vehicles that by 2030 they start the early 2030s they start integrating those vehicles into their fleet so so we've got about seven or eight years to really kind of make sure these these technologies are ready to go uh next slide please so i'll give you a little overview of the vehicle technologies office and and what we do and how we're broken out a lot of our work is is focused on the research and development side and so it's working with with industry it's working with our network of national labs it's working with universities and others to really help develop these these new technologies that'll help us reach that goal of decarbonizing transportation and and also provide energy efficiency that that's obviously department of energy all this centers around energy efficiency so the way we break up our our office work and i'll walk through these boxes with you one is batteries electrification that we're going to talk about today and that gets around you know all things to do with with batteries and battery technology how do we bring costs down on batteries how do we increase the range how do we look at future battery chemistries and also to look at the charging side and we'll talk more about that in a few more slides we also have a group that works on materials technology and so that is how do you make vehicles lighter by using things like advanced high strength steels carbon fiber aluminum and other materials so you make the vehicle wider and more fuel efficient but you still keep the safety and the structural integrity of the vehicle and so that's what our materials technology folks do over on the far right you can see something called mobility systems and that's a new area of work for us this program was started about three or four years ago and that's really trying to look at the whole universe if you will of of uh of smart mobility so ride sharing car sharing uh uh of advanced uh connected and automated vehicles and and and so we're looking at that and you might think on the surface well gosh that sounds like something the department of transportation should be doing what's doing looking at this for we're really trying to manage and understand the energy impacts of these new transportation models we have found that through a study that a lot of our labs did that many of these new transportation technologies if left unchecked could actually increase energy use by believe it or not 200 percent but if these are managed properly you could actually decrease energy use by as much as 60 percent and you may ask well how can you how can you increase energy use by by 200 percent with some of these technologies well you think about the world of an automated vehicle so if we really had an autonomous vehicle it might be one that you know back in the hopefully the day soon when we're going back to our our offices on some regular basis but that autonomous vehicle might take uh might take me to work and then come back home empty take my wife to work come back home empty take the kids to school come back home empty so you can have a lot of miles where where these these vehicles uh are are not are just driving by themselves and and burning fuel uh but but not really having a purpose uh so so the world of mobility systems is really trying to understand these new technologies really look at transportation as as a system um and so that's the work that's happening in the mobility systems world i mentioned in a previous slide uh the work we're doing now to really look at uh off-road applications air marine and rail and then what we do in my program technology integration we there are the outreach education and deployment arm so we're really trying to make sure that these these new technologies that are being developed um you know the researchers in the labs have a saying you know how how do we take these technologies uh get them out of the lab and over as they call it kind of the valley of death to get them into the field not that it's our job to commercialize these technologies but how can we help with demonstration projects that that validate the technologies and and help us to learn more about what might be needed to further accelerate adoption of these uh by by consumers and also by companies and fleets and government organizations um so with that next slide please so i mentioned uh you know some of the the broader challenges of uh of batteries and electrification and what those are um so one of those is trying to bring down the cost of battery packs um a few years ago battery packs were up over a thousand dollars uh now battery packs are the numbers we have today have a somewhere probably the 150 to 160 dollar range but does continuing to work with with industry and with other researchers to bring this down further our goal by 2025 is to try to get the cost of the ev battery pack to less than a hundred dollars a kilowatt hour and increase the range up to 300 miles and also to try to decrease the time it takes to charge a vehicle to 15 minutes or less so let me walk through those those numbers real quick uh so the hundred dollar kilowatt hour we we believe that and the analysis shows that once we can get that number to a hundred dollars a kilowatt hour or even a bit lower uh that we can start to get the the cost of an electric vehicle on par with its with its liquid fuel counterparts in other words an ev having a similar cost parity to uh to a gasoline vehicle or a diesel powered vehicle as we know any of these new technologies when they come out uh especially advanced vehicle technologies or alternative fuel vehicles uh tend to have a higher uh price than than their than their gasoline counterparts so so we know we need to get those battery costs down uh to try to get competitive with uh with gasoline uh we also know that that range is an issue uh you know where we as one of my old colleagues used to say you know gasoline vehicles have a head start on on evs and alternative fuels um and so you know we it's great to have these vehicles but does it have the range to get the job done that needs to be done if if somebody is doing package delivery or has a fixed route maybe a transit or other goods or people movement and they need to drive so many miles every day and have a short window to do that in uh how do you make sure those those batteries have the have the capacity to do that so that whatever the job doesn't have that can be done and also the other challenge is to reduce uh charging time down to about 15 minutes or less again the idea here is how do we make the experience of charging an electric vehicle uh very similar to what we're all used to which is the experience of filling up our vehicles with gasoline and we'll talk a little bit more about about charging and some future slides um i'm not going to bore you with with some of the uh uh the lithium ion with graphite and lithium ion with silicone and lithium metal on the on those graphs for two reasons uh one i'm not a battery engineer and i would get myself in trouble with my battery colleagues uh but that but number two is just that i really wanted to drive home with this slide is just the point that these these are overall goals that we're working on uh and a big part of this also is before i move on from this slide is that bottom bullet point which is how do we recycle these batteries you know a lot of the uh minerals and rare earths that are used in these batteries many of them have to be imported or they have to be mined and and we're finding with a lot of things that we recycle in in our country such as such as steel and metals that if we can recycle these batteries we can take those minerals and those rare earths out of the batteries use them again and eliminate that process so we have a big effort underway to look at battery recycling and with that i think let's move to the next slide please so really our our goal right now at doe as i mentioned we want to we want to you know decarbonize the transportation sector by 2050 uh but we really want to and to do that we need to accelerate nationwide adoption of evs and the recharging infrastructure so we are looking uh within our office to support a number of dish different initiatives from uh from the administration and from doe leadership one is to look at that we've done for several years now ev community partner projects and these are projects that really look at demonstrating these new technologies trying to help validate technologies in the field give fleets and consumers exposure to these vehicles that they might not otherwise have and so that's a big initiative us for us moving forward and also to demonstrate how these work in in underserved and historically disadvantaged communities so that's a very important initiative for us we also want to look at at the charging side of this you know charging is is very important there's the obviously opportunity to charge at home we know that workplace charging is also very important where we where you commute and where you go to work um if you talk to the the car manufacturers of the gms and the fords etc with all the analysis and data they have on where and how we drive our vehicles they point out pretty quickly that our passenger vehicles our personal vehicles spend about 80 percent of their time parked in one of two places either our driveway at home or the parking lot at work so so how do we we make sure that employers are providing the opportunity for employees to charge vehicles because that opens up an opportunity for many folks who may not have off street parking they might live in a high-rise or a condominium and they don't have the opportunity to have at-home charging but if their workplace has charging now suddenly that makes it easier for them to think about owning an electric vehicle because we've overcome that obstacle we're also working closely uh the the new administration has the goal to develop deploy 500 charging stations throughout the country uh that's part of the the new infrastructure plan and probably part of the new budgets going forward so we want to make sure we can help supply the technical assistance to make sure those those chargers are are going in the right places and they can be used by uh by folks who need them and that everybody has equitable access to them we also understand that education and workforce training is an important component of this this nationwide initiative for ev deployment so education from the school side from stem to make sure that we are producing in our schools the next generation of engineers and chemists who can work on these technologies and help further develop them but also we know on on the workforce training side we hear from a lot of our stakeholders already who have concerns in fact i was on a call a couple weeks ago with some representatives from the american trucking association who they represent state trucking associations across the country and they're really concerned about how do those technicians who are been working on you know diesel-powered vehicles for years now how do they get retrained to now work on electric vehicles um we also have been doing a lot quite a bit of training for first responders if you come across a first responder comes across an accident that involves an electric vehicle how can they make sure that that power is properly shut off and before they start trying to extricate somebody from that vehicle and using the jaws of life and possibly cutting into a high power cable how do you make sure that vehicle is safe for them to work on we also are looking at doing training and have done some training for as we call them second and third responders uh for tow truck operators if a tow truck operator is coming has to remove a vehicle from an accident uh does he know where to properly hook on cables and is he comfortable with how to do that we've we've already heard reports of tow truck operators refusing to tow an electric vehicle because they have read something in the news and they're fearful of it how do we provide training to them then even as i said third responders there have been a number of incidents where vehicles have been involved in an accident and they go to an auto salvage yard and those battery packs have not been properly dealt with and they can cause issues in terms of of fires and other things happening so so a lot has to happen with with workforce training as well so we're very cognizant of that and want to make sure that we're addressing those issues going forward next slide please so i'm going to talk about our technology integration program um probably uh looks some of these slides when i heard lasagna talking i said my gosh that's exactly what we do so um so our goal is is really with the technology integration program that has been around now for close to 30 years at doe uh is to really do a number of things to provide that technical assistance and i'm going to talk about all these in more detail to provide training and outreach and also to develop partnerships with the broad base of public and private sector stakeholders who can really help us understand what's happening on the ground what's happening across the country so we make sure that the work we're doing is is addressing the need of of the stakeholders financial assistance talk more about that a big part of our budget is used for competitive solicitations that address some of these areas we talk about information and tools making sure that the folks have access to tools and resources that that are unbiased uh by that i mean as the department of energy we you know we don't have a we don't have the a dog in a fight so to speak we're not trying to sell a particular technology or particular vehicle type uh but whether rather trying to provide the tools and the resources so that whether it's an individual consumer uh or a fleet manager or government organization can make a good informed decision about uh what's going to work best for their fleet uh and then a big way we do this also is through our network of clean cities coalitions we have about 75 clean cities coalitions across the country who are our local experts on the ground so we'll dive into that a little bit more before we do that just two things two of the things we do in our program one is we we do have a little bit of a regulatory bent uh we actually uh state and alternative fuel providers certain state fleets and certain alternative fuel providers like electric and gas utilities are required under the energy policy act of 1992 to re replace their vehicles uh through the normal course of vehicle replacement with either alternative fuel or advanced technology vehicles so we track that and then i mentioned workforce training we also have kind of a stem component to what we do where we do some advanced vehicle technology competitions uh at the college level and a lot of those folks coming out of those programs are the ones who are going to work as engineers at uh at the gm's of the world but many of them here at doe as well so now if you can go to the next slide please so in a technology integration program uh we are as i said uh i i don't want to say fuel agnostic again our our job is to provide the information and tools to help folks make the right decisions but our work spreads across all of all vehicles from light duty passenger cars to heavy-duty uh trucks buses trash trucks and everything in between uh we work on all alternative fuels as you can see there by the by the little kind of we'll call them gas pumps although you can see electric is the second one in there and obviously that's a big focus of our efforts now and then i mentioned the work we're doing around uh smart mobility energy efficient mobility systems so so the work we do touches upon uh all of those segments next slide please so i mentioned uh tools and resources um we we know that it can be a bit daunting when someone is looking at trying to maybe convert their fleet over to electric vehicles where do you find the right information and so that's what we are quite proud of what we've developed with our alternative fuels data center we can see the website afdc.energy.gov there's a myriad of tools and information on on this website too much for me to go into even if i had more time but i will offer up if anybody would like to learn more about these tools and resources we can certainly set up a time to walk you through what we have available in essence we have everything from kind of a you know if you were to click on the electricity icon it's kind of a real basic overview of electric vehicles what they are how they work the charging up to detailed case studies cost calculators a lot of very good case studies many of which are are are are produced by maryland public tv and shown on on motorweek uh across the country as well as professional case studies that that our labs or others have done so this is a great resource that if you want to learn more about some of these fuels or have some questions please take a look at the alternative fuel data center and again happy to if somebody wants to do more of a deep dive into it you know happy set up some time to get our experts and do that one of the tools that's very popular on on that website is the uh ultra is the alternative fuel station locator so the alternative fuel station locators exactly as it sounds we have every alternative fuel station in the country and even canada because nrel the national renewable energy lab has entered into an agreement with natural resources canada to also post all of their alternative fueling stations so this is uh looks a little overwhelming with all those green dots but uh you can build filter down on this so if you know that you have a fleet of vehicles that operate within 30 miles of your location and you want to know where electric vehicle charging stations are you you can do that or if you know that you're going to try to maybe take a trip and hey can i make it from here to wherever my location is 100 203 miles away and and i'm going to go down this highway system you can also map that out as well um so so and we also have an app uh so we have both an android and an iphone app so you don't have to worry about being tied to a laptop or a desktop to use it but the station locator is one that the electric vehicle charging stations are updated daily we have a an agreement with all the charging network companies where they give us a fresh download every night of all the stations uh so we know exactly what's what's working and what's new and what's been added so this is a very useful tool and uh one i would urge you to try to take a look at next one please then we're throwing away there we go uh we've also been working with our colleagues at the department of transportation uh may be familiar with the fact that the d.o.t has had for a

few years uh an effort underway to look at as they're calling them alternative fuel corridors and that is you know really trying to make sure that the infrastructure we have not just for electric but for all alternative fuels that their proper corridors you know it's great to have an alternative fuel vehicle or an electric vehicle um but you know if you need to drive somewhere with it you can't stop at the county line or the state line or wherever because there's there's no more charging so we've been working with dot on on this alternative fuel corridor tool to really help map out to make sure that there's more infrastructure that goes into place to make sure that that people can drive the distances they need to whether it's for personal or business use and this will really help us a lot as we look at trying to support that that initiative around the 500 000 chargers next slide please so uh i mentioned our electricity pages uh this is what what that electricity page would look like if if you go to it uh you can see it starts out with with all the basics uh from just the different types of vehicles from what what's a rubber hybrid vehicle to a plug-in uh electric hybrid vehicle uh talks about stations i didn't want to talk about stations uh and make sure that you know sometimes i i make the assumption probably probably so that the people may have a good feeling for some of these basics so this is a good opportunity to talk about stations uh you probably hear people talk about stations they'll talk about level one or level two or level three or sometimes dc fast charging so let me walk through those real quick to make sure people understand the distinction so when somebody talks about level 1 charging that's no different than than plugging your smartphone uh or your laptop or your ipad into your receptacle at home into your 110 receptacle uh that's level one charging so level one charging for an electric vehicle is is probably going to be uh pretty much a 12 hour plus um affair it's going to take a long time level 2 charging um is think of think of level 2 charging is we have an electric dryer uh of being the this kind of a 210 or 220 a volt application so with level two charging uh you're going to be able to charge an electric vehicle uh probably in about half that time about six to eight hours uh so level two charging lends itself very well to uh you know at home if you come home from work at six o'clock at night you're not leaving until six or seven the next morning you can recharge the vehicle level two charging is what we see employers put in for workplace charging again because those cars are probably parked in that parking lot for eight to ten hours a day uh or again and this where when you get talking about electric vehicles and and what what's going to work best for you is really understanding uh you know how many how many miles that vehicle drives and uh and and what what it's what its duty cycle or drive cycle is throughout the day so for a lot of applications uh even for fleet applications uh you know shuttle buses or some package delivery things level two might work just fine assuming those vehicles come back to the same location every night and have that long window to charge with level three or dc fast charging is trying to get closer to mimicking what you get at a gasoline station not quite dc fast charging is probably going to take 30 to 45 minutes and it'll probably get you your battery about 80 to 85 percent charged um so again much quicker than those first two options uh but still not quite the same experience as going to a gasoline station right and so that's why when you saw a few slides earlier i talked about uh us trying to get those charging times down to under 15 minutes again so it can more closely emulate uh what we're used to at a traditional fueling station so so those are the differences between the the three the three types of uh of charging uh capabilities um i know the other question that comes up uh anytime we talk about any alternative fuel natural gas propane and now the same is true with electrification is okay the stations and then how much does it cost how much does it cost to put these stations in and uh uh or how much do they cost and and the answer i say comes come back with not trying to be a smart alk is well how much does the house cost um so it really depends on on a number of things so a level two charger if if you're using it for a fleet type application uh i was actually talking to uh to a school district who was looking at some electric school buses uh they i think they were averaging about ten to fifteen thousand dollars uh per per charging station uh the the charging stations themselves of the cost is relatively fixed uh a lot of the the cost of putting in a station comes down to the installation cost um so if there's concrete that needs to be cut and trenched and conduit it needs to be run uh that's where it can add cost to it so and then if you're looking at trying to do dc fast charging again depending on the capability uh in other words you know how many vehicles do you have to charge when that's going to influence the cost so you're probably looking for level 2 you know 50 000 on on average but again that could be higher depending on uh on the battery capacity in other words almost how big the vehicles are uh how quickly uh those need to be charged and how many vehicles you're charging you know if you have a if you're somebody you know i'll use my ups example again where you've got a short window uh to get vehicles uh charged and out the door uh then then you're gonna need more capacity um so so it so this is where we can help with some of our technical uh is is really to help you you understand if you're doing it for a fleet application you know but the vehicles how big those vehicles are how many miles they're going to drive each day what type of time they have when they're not operating uh when they can be charged uh and that cannot and that can really dictate whether whether dc fast charging is needed or if level two charging is going to work and again we can certainly help with with a lot of those uh a lot of those decisions that need to be made next slide please this is just again some more information on uh on kind of the basics of you know charging infrastructure procurement and installation again a number of of tools that we've provided here uh that can really help with a lot of these things that i've talked about uh but i want to make sure that you're aware of these and again we're happy to to walk through any of these with you um i would say one of the one of the things that that we tell people right off the bat and this is a lesson we learned with uh natural gas and fleets using natural gas as alternative fuel if you're thinking about putting in ev charging we urge you to before you do anything talk to your electric utility uh get them involved from from the get-go if there are you know upgrades that need to be made to the the electric service coming into the facility where those vehicles are going to be charged at it's good to get the electric utility involved and know that right up front um we've heard too many horror stories of people putting in charging stations and then they they bring in the utility afterwards and find out that there are other issues that maybe they need to to deal with but had they had the utility involved from the beginning uh it may have been an easier process so so take a look at some of these resources if you're in that mode right now where you're looking at putting in ev charging you're just kind of wondering what the steps are and and i think you'll find that these can be very helpful again a lot here but we try to make it uh very easy and very user friendly uh so so please take advantage of those but again let us know if you have uh have any questions uh with that let's move on to the next slide these are just examples of some of the handbooks that we've produced that are on on our afdc website that really get to if you are going to put in public charging whether you're you're a fleet or you're an employer and you're going to put in workplace charging for your employees or your consumer and you just want to put in workplace charging at your home or if you're looking to put in a public charging station uh that that again the general public can take advantage of we've put together these guides that again are are primers that can walk you through kind of the various steps uh considerations and and to make sure that that you take that that kind of logical approach to uh to the installation and understanding uh what needs to be done uh next slide please uh another website we have uh that we work closely with our friends at the environmental protection agency on is a fuel economy.gov website uh this is a website that will allow you to compare the fuel economy and the emissions of just about every light and some medium duty vehicles out there including the used vehicle market we've been doing this in conjunction with epa for gosh i think about 20 years now and that should say we actually just came out with a new 2021 fuel guide but you can do side-by-side comparisons so if you've got a couple three different vehicles you're thinking about and you want to know from an emissions standpoint uh or or from a an efficiency standpoint with mileage uh how efficient they are the fuel economy guide is is going to walk you all through that as well as providing a myriad of other uh tools and things that that can help you understand these vehicles and to learn about how they work and and to make sure that you're you're maximizing the efficiency of these vehicles one of the things that comes up sometimes too when we talk about alternative fuels or we talk about electric vehicles is trying to compare uh what we're used to with miles per gallon to uh electric miles per gallon or mpge uh so when you see that number and you'll see it if you look in the fuel economy guide it's so you don't have to worry about trying to figure out kilowatt hours and and uh and becoming an electrical engineer to try to determine what the fuel efficiency of your vehicle is you'll see something called mpge which is to really try to convert that electric to kind of a miles per gallon uh equivalent so you're comparing apples and apples and you'll see that sometimes too with other alternative fuels like propane or natural gas where you'll see them advertise it as a gge a gasoline gallon equivalent or a dge a diesel gallon equivalent and again the reason for that is is to make sure that it's an apples to apples comparison and that you don't have to take a calculus class to figure out what kind of mileage you're getting so fuel economy.gov another another great resource and guide that i would suggest you you take a look at especially if you're looking at some new vehicles or even use videos let's say we have used vehicles either going back to i think about 25 years worth of used vehicles back to the mid-90s uh next slide please um talk about our training outreach and partnerships uh we work with a large number of public and private stakeholders you can see just a few of them listed here to really there there are great sources of information for us to help us understand what they're seeing from their particular fuel or technology what's what's working what's not working what some of the challenges are that really helps inform us as we try to look at again being the deployment arm okay what can we address from doe and what can we either provide technical assistance or financial assistance to to help overcome some of those hurdles so again just a a small overview of some of the some of the organizations we work with i've talked a little bit about stem and workforce development so we have a we have a clean cities university workforce development program an intern program working with universities across the country to bring interns in to work with our clean cities coalitions many of those folks have gone on to jobs in the alternative fuel industry and we even have one of our colleagues in our office of vehicle technologies office came through the the clean cities intern program uh and and we're looking at trying to do more uh with with that program to expand it next slide please so this is one i want to spend a few minutes on it and make sure i'm okay on time here i want to spend a few minutes on uh and that is technical assistance um you know there there can oftentimes be technical hurdles to overcome when you're first deploying new technologies uh even if it's technology a new technology has been out there for a while if you're if you're doing it for the first time with with your fleet uh there can sometimes be technical challenges so so we have a number of ways we can address the technical and problem solving assistance uh the first is at the top we actually have a technical response service with i guess we're old-fashioned we actually have a phone number you can call but you can send an email and and so if you need to get some some questions answered uh very quickly uh and you need something they'll provide some great written responses with uh with links to other resources with contact names and numbers uh to really help address some some of those easier technical issues but we also have hands-on technical assistance through our tiger team initiative uh and and these folks are are industry experts who can come out uh be on site and help if there are some hurdles that need to be overcome with an additional deployment of a new technology whether it's on the vehicle side or the charging infrastructure side but we've also found a lot of times when new technologies are deployed sometimes issues can arise uh that maybe nobody really had thought about when those things were first put on the road and it may be a year or two or longer when some things can can come up and so our tiger teams are also available for that so so really important that that you know again we we don't have a technology to sell um we you know we want to make sure that that whether it's a consumer or a fleet that you have a great experience and if they're technical issues we can help bring in all the resources we have access to to try to help overcome those whether that's as i said an initial deployment or if that's even after vehicles have been out on the road for a couple years so uh so this is a a big part of our program uh one that we're very proud of and always trying to expand and make sure that we've we've got uh the right tools and resources whether it's online or with industry experts who who can come in to help solve those problems because there's for anybody who's listening who is a who's a fleet manager uh you know there's nothing more frustrating than when you can't roll your fleet out in the morning because of uh of some sort of technical issue so so this is what we can offer in terms of of our technical uh assistance again just a very quick overview but we can get involved much more deeply with with any issue or problem that might arise or if it's just something minor we can address that too i want to touch on our network of clean cities coalitions uh clean cities program has been around for almost 30 years now you can see the results of our our program each one of these each one of those dots you see in the map has a clean cities coordinator and that coordinator is is they're they're the local boots on the ground so they're the ones who can pull together uh if you're looking at a deployment project they can pull together all the right stakeholders they are those local experts so they have great relationships with their electric and their gas utilities with local and state governments with car dealers with technicians other local codes officials so these are these this should probably be your your first call if you're thinking about the electric vehicle or any alternative fuel vehicle uh or or if you already have uh alternative fuel or electric vehicles and maybe you have an issue you have a question you need answered your clean cities coordinator should be your first first line of defense if you will because they they are the local boots on the ground and uh and we we couldn't do the great work that we are able to do without them they they really serve as a great feedback loop in terms of uh letting us know what's what's working out in the field uh so the and what's not working so we can address it but also in making sure that as i said the new technologies that we're trying to deploy and do these deployment and demonstration projects on they play a big role in getting that out they know what's going on with funding opportunities not just from doe but from other federal agencies as well as everything that's happening at the state and local level so again your clean cities coordinators is a great resource and i thought i had the website here i know it's on my last page but it's cleancities.energy.gov and you can go and learn about your local coalition and who the contact is and the great work that they do next slide please um talk about competitive funding um so we have uh we've since 1993 had about uh 500 million dollars go out the door for a wide variety of projects over 600 projects this is just a few buckets of some of that work again we are concerned about the deployment efforts and the demonstration efforts but we also know that that these things can't these projects can't just work in in a metropolitan area they have to work in in rural america as well they have to work in underserved and disadvantaged communities so we can see we've done a lot of projects there we've done a lot of work around afe safety training we talked about that a little bit the need for training for first and second and third responders uh building partnerships uh trying to look at those we're calling it living labs so we've done a lot of work looking at some of these new uh transportation technologies like ride sharing and car sharing uh micro mobility and again how how those can work in rural applications so again those are just some of the some of the buckets of work that we do but i think you can see that they're all focused around how can we help accelerate the adoption of these technologies and part of that is getting the vehicles and infrastructure out but it's also understanding these other things as well understanding the safety part of it understanding that these have to work for everybody regardless of where they live and they have to be available for everybody and and be equitable next slide please so i mentioned funding opportunities uh this just gives you an idea for our projects that we funded for the last fiscal year for fiscal year 20. uh we had about 37 million dollars in funding and you can see the uh the types of projects that were funded these are the states where the uh where the prime awardees were located uh and uh so about 18 different projects and if you get the next slide please and so these are states where i mentioned our clean cities coalition so our our clean cities coalitions and in the previous slide i think there were about six or eight clean cities coalitions that were prime awardees these were uh we had 32 of our clean cities oceans were involved in those projects representing 26 states so again uh try to make sure that that the funding that goes out uh is is uh is diverse in terms of of technologies and geography and again trying to be very expert making sure it goes out the door as best it can for competitive solicitations so just a kind of an overview of how how we try to get the funding out for those competitive awards and next slide i think that's it so so i appreciate i appreciate your time i i know we uh i went through a lot there um and a lot to cover so i'll look forward to your questions at the end uh but i'll also say at this time um you know if we're not able to address your questions with the time we have today uh happy happy to take those offline here are those three websites we talked about briefly the afdc the alternative fuel data center uh the clean cities website where you can go to learn about the coalitions and the coalition in the area and then the fuel economy.gov website uh so with that uh that's it thank you uh james i'll turn it back to you excellent mark thank you so much a wonderful presentation a ton of good information in there and uh yeah our audience uh hopefully um will will save your slide deck because there's a lot of good resources in there all right with that let's move on to our next presentation jennifer it looks like your slides are up thank you james i just want to say thank you everyone for the invitation to be here i'm really excited to share our eevee project and resources but um mark was had some amazing resources so i'm really excited he went first so um you want to go to our next slide thank you um so as you can see there our charting station was installed on our main complex in oakwood directly behind the charging station that is our veterans building there's a museum there's also veterans services to the right the back you can see our mound building where our national council meet a little farther back there's our attorney general's office there's an early childhood center so there's a lot of services and resources on our main complex there um the charting station was funded through the volkswagen settlement and we put this was in the second funding cycle that we built this charging station um so it could be funded up to 15 of the um mitigation actions the vehicle purchases so we did that within the budget of that so we're really excited to share a little bit more information with you it was designed by our tribal construction department we were really fortunate to be able to work with them and have them as a resource they designed the project they managed it um they did an amazing job making sure everything went smoothly this was built steering coved so um lots of challenges but i think they um professionally handled the project and as you can see it's beautiful and i also appreciate our geospatial department they got out there and took these amazing pictures so thank you to them um i also wanted to share how much our project cost i watched these webinars and i'm always curious like how much they got could my you know tribal nation do that is it realistic um so i just wanted to share that and be open about it um go to the next slide so some planning considerations i appreciate that mark kind of went over a little bit of this already but existing infrastructure obviously there you can see this other drone image before was built we already had a concrete pad there the space was ample to support the training station we had the electrical there at the administration building that was able to support it that's also something you have to consider um just consider so built you know if there's lighting there um what amenities you have so there's lots that goes into selecting your site and i think it's really important to plan for that like mark talks about a little bit do your homework ahead of time but so the um purpose also what what are you looking for whenever you install your charging station is it for the general public do you want visitors to come to your site is it for your employees um for fleet use um we built ours kind of going and knowing we kind of wanted it to be a conglomerate of those things we wanted it to be a use for visitors our citizens and we wanted our employees to be able to use it our fleet department we have in my department electrical vehicle we have charged you over there in the past but also whenever you're selecting your site um consider the existing charging locations and mark shared a resource and then also there's also plugshare.com

if you want to go to the next slide here's just a screenshot of the tulsa area our reservation you can see that there are quite a few charging stations up around tulsa um the tulsa clean cities like mark was talking about has done an amazing job with collaboration with francis energy i believe they use the um through the volkswagen settlement they electrify america funding to build some of those chargers and support the infrastructure but we wanted to support those alternative fuel corridors so you can see there's one below us and henrietta but there's quite a big stretch there on ice on highway 75 that was without charging stations so we wanted to be able to give people more comfortability traveling make sure that we're easing that range anxiety a little bit but i really like plug share um i obviously marks was amazing as well but it kind of allows you to use it kind of like a social media platform people check in there i love to go in there and check in and see who's used the charging station um it talks about the amenities that are available there so when people are planning trips they can go on and see um we have restrooms we have a gift shop they can come in and shop they can um there's attractions they can come and see our if they have a mask on right now um but if they they come into our museum they can um if they're a citizen use our go in and conduct meetings um so yeah so they kind of like can share their experience there and i love seeing the little reviews and stuff that people put on there um but it's just another great resource and then if you want to square the qr code in the bottom right hand corner it'll take you to that plexure link and you can kind of play with it it's a really neat site and it's really interesting to see the different types of chargers that are out there and where they're located at there's just some images and i just love getting these our tribal construction was really good about so many regular reports and taking pictures of the process um so it started in september of 2020 the actual construction but this has been an ongoing um project and i've been we were really fortunate it spanned over two different administrations and so they were both really supportive of the project they continued to be supportive of our project we just had our ribbon cutting um in april actually for earth day and so it was just a great turnout we have a picture of that later but some images you can see our veterans building there's our administration building there's the transit building and so it's really close to a lot of services that our citizens have access to and so we wanted to provide this with this amenity to them and to support our citizens in purchasing eb vehicles and feeling comfortable um and so i appreciate that mark kev talked about this a little bit too we purchased five level two chargers we started with three dual arm chargers and that was our original project and if we had money left over we were going to go ahead and purchase the other two um but we couldn't didn't have the electrical load to have two more dual arms so they were single arm so they took a little while to come in um but yeah so just kind of the same thing mark talked about how long are people going to use chargers are they going to be employees that are going to be all days um are they going to be visitors that are going to come and spend a few hours in the museum walk around the complex so that was something the available electricity that that's something to consider we were really fortunate we had the available load there we didn't really have to make that many changes so i felt like the cost of all the electrical work was reasonable and then the cost of electricity in your area i think that's something to consider i think we are really fortunate to have low cost here in oklahoma but in other areas i know that it can be expensive and so we don't charge to use our targets it's free so that's something to consider operations and maintenance we have a really great partnership with francis and tulsa they have been a great service provider for us they we bought the chargers from they've been working with us i feel like for years um planning and making sure that we had the right equipment we were looking for and they do all the operations and maintenance so far we purchased an extended agreement just because this is a little out of our comfortability zone but we're hoping that our employees will get trained and will be able to service the equipment in the future um and then if you want to skim the charcoal that takes you to the francis site and they can have a really interesting site they've been a big partner with um clean cities like i was talking about earlier and you'll see their tardy patients all over oklahoma so mark shared an updated version of this which i am excited to go check out we used this when we started planning and just kind of started learning about the ev chargers it really breaks it down step by step what you need where you're building your charger what it's going to take it's an amazing resource so i'm excited to check out the new version obviously this one was a little dated but it kind of gives you an idea about the cost and consumption i thought that was interesting and obviously i think that could change as a cost changes of electricity but we're really fortunate that um really low right now and so we can affordably you know provide this service to our employees and visitors and citizens so this is a breakdown of the cost of recharge so i've told you i like to know how much these things cost um you know how realistic is it so the structure we designed that to protect those chargers so that was a pretty clean across but everything we think it turned out great we did an amazing job we had so great luck with um our contractors we were really lucked out they were amazing our project worked really seamlessly hitting all of our timeline constraints and everything um as i said it was during covid so there's always concerns with supply and everything but we were really lucky but so this is the three drawer dual arm chargers and then the two single arms which the two single arms were actually more expensive because they had to be special ordered um but that that is the cost to build our structure and kind of you see in the image a little better of our complex is beautiful obviously but we are really excited we it's been an amazing project we've had a lot of good use out of it but you can go to the next slide we're going to talk about those more so this is something that i feel like really passionate about we're our want to protect our environment we also want to protect our citizens this is definitely a time of year that missions are a concern so we wanted to make sure that we are doing our part to encourage our employees citizens our visitors to drive ev vehicles and also when emissions are high there are ozone concerns to carpool or stay home but this is just another great benefit of driving easy vehicles is to reduce the health health concerns to our extensive populations our complex has two senior citizens citizen housing units right by us and so we want to do everything we can to protect them so here's our awesome earth day ribbon cutting as you can see we had a great turnout just really cold that day so i was absolutely amazed that this many people came out um as you can see our principal's chief david hill is there steve emerson is right next to him he is the travel construction director james williams there in his awesome vest holding those giant scissors but we were just really fortunate that um we've had a ton of support for the project the okmulgee chamber of commerce came out you can't really see it well i wish i would have got a great picture but the ford dealership brought an electric mustang it was actually really cool everybody should go out and google it i wish i would have had a great picture of the sheriff but our national council came out it was just francis energy came we just had a ton of support everybody was really excited that was cool so we had a lot of participation that day and it was just a definitely a happy day and so we're happy to that it's up and running and people are using it um right next time awesome um so um matthew ellis is who we've been working with at francis energy he sent me this um awesome interpretation of as you can see a screenshot of the data that that our chargers collect and so usually these chargers that branches have they are like on an rfid card system and you swipe it and you have an account and all that well with ours it's just free so um but they still collect all this data i think it's really interesting you can see start time charge end time the duration and then i kill a lot hours used so it kind of gives you an idea about um who's using the charter not who exactly but when the charge is being used and for how long and so he breaks it down that um we have driven 2217 miles which i think is amazing um on the far left that is our second chief still beavers electric vehicle i we've been really lucky that um we have so many amazing supporters after the charting station was built he went out and bought an electric vehicle so we're really excited um as you can see a tesla's there i got really excited whenever i see people charging so we've had two employees i know for sure that went out and bought electric vehicles after the charging station was built and so i hope that continues that we can provide this service to employ

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