The Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), announced funding to accelerate the creation of zero-emission vehicle corridors. The DOE has awarded $7.4 million to seven projects to develop medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicle charging and hydrogen corridor infrastructure plans that will benefit millions of drivers across 23 states.
“A clean transportation sector requires vast investments across the entire industry, including to decarbonize the trucks that move our goods,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm.
The selected projects, administered by DOE’s Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) and Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office (HFTO), will advance the President’s decarbonization goals by accelerating the deployment of medium- and heavy-duty charging and refueling infrastructure to reduce emissions from freight corridors and the depots, ports, and other facilities those corridors service. The initiatives support DOE’s Justice40 priorities by demonstrating the impacts and benefits of these freight corridors plans on underserved communities. These would also help improve air quality in underserved areas of major American cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland, and Salt Lake City.
One of the selected projects is headed by the Gas Technology Institute: Houston to Los Angeles (H2LA)–I-10 Hydrogen Corridor Project. It will develop a flexible and scalable blueprint plan for an investment-ready hydrogen fueling and heavy-duty freight truck network from Houston to LA (H2LA) along I-10, including the Texas Triangle region, and in the process develop methodology for future corridor plans across the country.
Source: DOE
