{"id":2884,"date":"2023-02-16T22:27:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T22:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2023-02-16T22:27:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T22:27:40","slug":"covid-the-rural-ev-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/covid-the-rural-ev-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID &#038; the Rural EV Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.valleyair.org\/recent_news\/Media_releases\/2019\/PR-for-ZEV-Mobility-event-11-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Valley ZEV Mobility Project<\/a>, a $1.9 million California pilot program that gave 4 EV fleet vehicles and charging infrastructure to rural agricultural communities by creating green rideshare to grocery stores and medical appointments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pilot lasted 4 months and vanished during COVID. The EVs were transferred to Los Angeles and never returned. The 9 charging stations had no entity responsible for maintaining the chargers. Successful rural EV programs in California say the flaw in this program was that it was a private for profit company running the program from 300 miles away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/next\/californias-failed-remote-ev-program-is-a-cautionary-tale?utm_campaign=Newsletter%20-%20GOV%20-%20Daily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsmi=245561571&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-91n5EJEMA_Qc1PiNuzGWfCsi6QeSmJH2HHy48Ke-TSZHFzZIhiaGMlyl7GVU40uF7uZtKGR6EtPZ-F1RC8f8Uwh91sAOyGm-tu86i9XCKuOak5YyI&amp;utm_content=245561571&amp;utm_source=hs_email\">Governing | California\u2019s Failed Remote EV Program Is a Cautionary Tale<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Valley ZEV Mobility Project, a $1.9 million California pilot program that gave 4 EV fleet vehicles and charging infrastructure to rural agricultural communities by creating green rideshare to grocery stores and medical appointments. The pilot lasted 4 months and vanished during COVID. The EVs were transferred to Los Angeles and never returned. The 9 charging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2885,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions\/2885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}