HomeMy WebLinkAboutMemo - Mail Packet - 11/13/2018 - Memorandum From Paul Sizemore, Carrie Frickman, Amanda Mansfield And Aaron Iverson Re: City Of Fort Collins Electric Vehicle Readiness RoadmapFC Moves
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Planning, Development & Transportation
MEMORANDUM
DATE: October 31, 2018
TO: Mayor Troxell and City Councilmembers
THRU: Darin Atteberry, City Manager
Jeff Mihelich, Deputy City Manager
Laurie Kadrich, PDT Director
Lucinda Smith, Interim Chief Sustainability Officer
FROM: Paul Sizemore, FC Moves, Senior Manager
Carrie Frickman, Environmental Services, Climate Program Coordinator
Amanda Mansfield, FC Moves, Transportation Planner
Aaron Iverson, FC Moves, Senior Transportation Planner
CC: Mike Beckstead, CFO (CAP Executive Team)
Kevin Gertig, Executive Director, Utilities (CAP Executive Team)
Lindsay Ex, Int. Environmental Svces. Director (CAP Executive Team)
RE: City of Fort Collins Electric Vehicle Readiness Roadmap
Bottom Line:
In 2018, FC Moves and the Environmental Services Department staff, in collaboration
with the consulting firm ICF, conducted an Electric Vehicle (EV) Readiness Roadmap
strategic planning effort to support current and future EV adoption in our community.
Staff is excited to share the Fort Collins Electric Vehicle Readiness Roadmap (to be
referred to as the EV Roadmap). Project details can be found on the City’s EV
Readiness Roadmap webpage. One of the key objectives of this plan is to help Fort
Collins achieve its 2015 Climate Action Plan (CAP) goals by reducing carbon emissions
and local air quality impacts related to vehicle use within the city.
Background:
The City has implemented many past efforts to advance EV use in Fort Collins,
including a partnership with Loveland, Colorado State University (CSU), and the
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Electrification Coalition on the Drive Electric Northern Colorado (DENC) initiative in
2013. This initiative offered opportunities for the public and City staff to test drive and
learn about EVs, thus reducing barriers to EV use. Additionally, the City has led by
example with a goal to reduce traditional fuel use, and to achieve that goal has
purchased 15 battery electric vehicles, 1 plug-in hybrid electric vehicle and 18 hybrid
electric vehicles for the City Fleet. The City has additionally installed 13 public City-
owned charging stations.
With many efforts underway there was a need for a coordinated strategic plan to
increase EV usage and align internal and external resources, and thus the idea for the
EV Roadmap was born. The development of the roadmap was funded through a KFCG
Enhancement Offer in the 2017-2018 Budget (Offer 26.10 “Municipal Electric Vehicle
Readiness Roadmap”) and by FC Moves, using consulting expertise to develop the
roadmap in close coordination with City staff and key partners.
Project Overview and Stakeholder Engagement:
The EV Roadmap project kicked-off in January 2018 and was completed at the end of
October 2018. ICF and City staff conducted the strategic planning in three primary
phases; a discovery phase, assessment phase and plan development phase. An EV
Readiness Steering Committee (EVRSC) was formed at the beginning of the process
and included representatives from 11 City departments. The EVRSC provided critical
input and feedback throughout and included key partners from the following external
entities:
• Colorado State University
• City of Loveland
• Platte River Power Authority
• North Front Range Metropolitan Planning Organization
• Electrification Coalition
• Drive Electric Northern Colorado
• Northern Colorado EV Enthusiasts
• Brinkman Construction
To develop a comprehensive and holistic EV Roadmap to serve all members of the Fort
Collins community, additional engagement with the public, local businesses, and other
stakeholders was conducted. Examples of such engagement included:
• Engagement during community and City board meetings; including the
Transportation, Energy, and Air Quality boards
• One-on-one interviews with select stakeholders
• Email, web, and social media updates
• A web-based community questionnaire
EV Roadmap Vision, Goals and Strategies:
Vision and Goals:
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Vision: Fort Collins will be a leader and innovator in supporting the use of EVs within the
community’s sustainable transportation system. Residents, businesses, and visitors to
Fort Collins will choose EVs over conventional fuel vehicles.0F
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Community-Wide Goals:
• Increase the use of EVs over conventional fuel vehicles in Fort Collins and the
region.
• Improve awareness of EV purchase, operation, and life-time costs and benefits
among residents, businesses, and visitors to Fort Collins.
• Make EVs and charging infrastructure accessible to a broad range of users in an
equitable way by making it easier to purchase, charge, operate, and ride in an
EV.
• Integrate EVs with a renewably-powered electric grid to minimize greenhouse
gas and criteria air pollutant emissions, maximize energy system resilience, and
reduce costs to Fort Collins residents, businesses, and government.
Government-Focused Goals:
• Increase EVs in the City fleet by making 100% of light-duty1F
2 vehicle purchases
plug-in electric by 2025 and incorporating battery electric transit buses, subject to
the availability of suitable technology.
• Increase awareness and use of personal EVs among City employees.
• Invest in the charging infrastructure needed to support EVs in the City fleet and
provide adequate workplace charging for municipal employees.
Strategies:
21 strategies were crafted within the following categories; Outreach and Education, City
Planning and Regional Coordination, Policies, Incentives, Utilities, Leading by Example,
and Emerging Technologies. Each strategy includes:
• specific actions needed to advance/implement the strategy
• a callout box with helpful resources/best practices/case studies
• lead City Department and key partners
• timeline
Strategies are ranked (low, medium, high) in relation to needed City budget, level of
staff time and effort, and potential impact on EV Roadmap goals.
1 For the purpose of this Roadmap, “conventional fuel” refers to gasoline and diesel.
2 For the purpose of this Roadmap, “light-duty” refers to passenger cars and trucks intended for on-road use.
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Figure 1: EV Readiness Strategy Timeline Infographic by Carrie Frickman
Next Steps for EV Strategy Implementation:
A critical outcome of the EV Roadmap is the identification of FC Moves as the lead
facilitator of the Roadmap’s implementation phase. Implementation efforts will be
collaborative across City departments and external stakeholders, with a strong
partnership between the FC Moves and Environmental Services Department. No
additional resources or funding are needed at this time, however to fully implement the
Roadmap there will be a need to dedicate more resources. Next steps include:
• Convening an interdepartmental EV working group to make decisions around
implementation of selected strategies from the EV Roadmap
• Continuing and expanding partnerships with local, regional and state
stakeholders
• Participating at the Colorado Electric Vehicle Coalition (CEVC) and relevant
CEVC subcommittee meetings
• Incorporating the EV Roadmap into the Transportation Master Plan update
• Revisiting the EV Roadmap to track progress, address challenges and adapt
as necessary in the future
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