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ChargePoint Expands Electric Vehicle Charging
Infrastructure
San Jose, California (manufacturing); Sacramento,
San Francisco / San Jose, and Los Angeles Metro
areas (deployment)
EERE investment: $15 million
Leveraging EERE support, ChargePoint has installed more
than 4,500 Level 2 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in
residential and commercial locations nationwide, including
three metropolitan areas in California. Deploying EV
charging infrastructure is essential to bringing plug-in electric
drive vehicles to the road, and this project will help DOE
gather valuable data to improve future deployment efforts.
This project has enabled ChargePoint to raise $50 million
in private-sector investments, which has helped to grow the
company from 16 employees in June 2009 to 160 employees
today. ChargePoint and their partners contributed over $15
million to this project.
Clean Cities Coalitions Help Stakeholders Choose Smart
Transportation Solutions
U 13 California Locations
EERE investment: $30K annually to each coalition
EERE coordinates a network of nearly 100 Clean Cities
coalitions-self-organized groups of local community,
government, and business stakeholders whose efforts to adopt
smart transportation solutions have displaced more than 4.5
billion gallons of gasoline and diesel since 1993. California is
home to 13 Clean Cities coalitions. In 2011, these coalitions
reduced fuel consumption by the equivalent of nearly 150
million U.S. gallons of gasoline and prevented more than
700,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions. Together, the
coalitions include more than 1,700 businesses, local govern-
ments, and other organizations, and work to promote the
use of the nearly 4,600 alternative fuel and charging stations
in California. In 2011, the 13 coalitions leveraged DOE's
support to raise nearly $20 million from businesses, local
governments, other organizations, and non-DOE grants.
Cutting-Edge Biofuels Research and Entrepreneurship
Provide a Proving Ground
U Emeryville, California
EERE investment: $20M
The Advanced Biofuels Process Demonstration Unit (ABPDU)
at the DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
provides state-of-the-art facilities for innovative biofuels
production. Researchers from academia, the nonprofit sector,
private industry, and government are taking advantage of
ABPDU's bioreactors, centrifuges, purification systems, and
other production and analytical equipment to test, develop,
and perfect experimental technologies to produce biofuels
from grasses, wood, and agricultural waste.California State Summary: EERE Investments in California
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Berkeley Lab's ABPDU can convert biomass into advanced biofuels
for engine testing. Photo from Roy Kaltschmidt, photographer Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory
Lithium-Ion Battery Technology Complements
Previous Breakthroughs
D3 Newark, California
EERE investment: $5M and $17M
(through a combination of EERE and automobile
manufacturer investments)
Building on advanced battery innovations enabled by EERE,
Envia Systems of Newark has become a world leader in the
race to commercialize high energy lithium-ion batteries that
promise better performing electric vehicles that cost much
less. Envia's innovative battery cells use a breakthrough
mixed-metal cathode material invented at DOE's Argonne
National Laboratory and developed through a decade of
sustained EERE support. General Motors has found Envia's
battery technology using the cathode so promising that it has
invested $7 million in the company. With the help of 2009
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) funds, the
Newark startup is also developing and incorporating a
silicon-based anode designed to further boost driving range,
lower production costs, and improve safety. Through the U.S.
Advanced Battery Consortium -a cooperative agreement
between DOE and automakers and an individual cost-share
partnership with EERE, Envia continues to optimize this
cathode technology. In February 2012, Envia announced it
had achieved a breakthrough that would enable three times
the battery energy density of current lithium-ion batteries
and reduce their cost by more than half.'3
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