Northern California Center for Alternative Transportation Fuels and Advanced Vehicle Technologies (North CAT)

This agreement was to develop the Northern California Center for Alternative Transportation Fuels and Advanced Vehicle Technologies (NorthCAT) and develop a network of locations, institutional arrangements, and virtual communications systems. The NorthCAT project under this agreement prepares for future activities such as conducting a broad range of alternative fuel and advanced vehicle technology showcase and demonstration, training and outreach, and project facilitation programs.

The agreement involved a partnership of five subcontractors along with the prime recipient, the Regents of the University of California - Berkeley (UC Berkeley) Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC). The key additional project partners are Frontier Energy, the Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE), Humboldt State University (HSU) - Schatz Energy Research Center (SERC), the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) with CalCharge, Prospect Silicon Valley (ProspectSV) with the Bay Area Climate Collaborative (BACC), and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.

This final project report documents the project goals and accomplishments as initially defined in the project work scope and schedule of deliverables. The report also includes a description of the physical and virtual management plans and procedures for operation of the NorthCAT project and a summary of the center development plan and the planned next steps for the project to continue.