The Greater Kansas City Plug-In Readiness Task Force has been formed to drive the adoption of plug-in vehicles in the Greater Kansas City Area
and is sponsored by the
Mid-America Regional Council and the
KC Regional Clean Cities Coalition. The goal is to have a regional plan to help get the metro area ready for plug in vehicles.
These efforts will make a difference in the region’s ability to secure the
economic and environmental benefits of plug-in vehicles.
Metropolitan Energy
Center and
MARC have been
working with a wide range of public and private organizations to develop a
regional plan to get consumers, businesses and local governments ready for
plug-in vehicles.
In January 2010,
KC Regional Clean Cities Coalition
joined
MARC and
Project Get Ready
through the Rocky Mountain Institute, which is helping communities prepare for
plug-in vehicles — including full-battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric and
converted hybrid or internal combustion vehicles.
The
Greater Kansas City
Plug-In Initiative Task Force set up six stakeholder groups
working under a steering committee to address all aspects of plug-in
preparedness — charging infrastructure, government policy, vehicle availability,
fleet demand, retail demand and incentives. Dozens of local governments,
academic institutions, businesses, utilities, labor unions and other
organizations volunteered to evaluate Project Get Ready's menu of actions
against the local landscape to determine how best to use resources to form a
plug-in vehicle ecosystem in the metro.
The task force recently completed the Greater Kansas
City Plug-in Readiness Strategy, an action plan that proposes strategies and
outcomes in each priority area, identifies who would undertake them, and
suggests a feasible timeline.
Electrify Heartland
KC Regional
Clean Cities Coalition announces their funding received by the
Department of Energy for "Community
Readiness and Planning for Plug-in Electric Vehicles and
Charging Infrastructure."
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