This document serves as the Final Report by the City of Oakland pursuant to its Agreement ARV-14-060 with the California Energy Commission under solicitation PON-14-607 for Zero-Emission Vehicle Readiness Plan Implementation.
The project had two main deliverables: plug-in electric vehicle infrastructure building code adoption in the City of Oakland, City of Fremont, and the City and County of San Francisco, and to improve and streamline the permitting and inspection process for electric vehicle charging in Oakland.
As a result of work conducted under this agreement, each partnering local government adopted new building codes that require a higher level of electric vehicle charging infrastructure at a greater number of parking spaces than required by the California Green Building Standards Code. These efforts will generate significant benefits.
The permitting/inspection streamlining and staff training carried out in Oakland through this grant was meant to decrease the rate of non-compliance, but this is an area that the project team recommends for further consideration and grant funding, as discussed in Chapter 5. In addition, some electric vehicle plug-in electric vehicle infrastructure would have been required under existing California Green Building Standards Codes, though in general the code does not require compliance with Title 24 Chapter 11B requirements.
