The CALSTART San Joaquin Valley Clean Transportation Center was established in September 2015 using funding from the California Energy Commission and Southern California Gas Company. The mission for the San Joaquin Valley Clean Transportation Center is to accelerate the use of clean vehicles and fuels and help the region more quickly meet its air quality targets. The San Joaquin Valley Clean Transportation Center provides technical assistance, project development expertise, and support with acquiring funding for San Joaquin Valley vehicle fleet owners, local governments, businesses, and residents. Its work is designed to expand the use of zero-emission vehicles, clean trucks, and high-efficiency non-road equipment. The San Joaquin Valley Clean Transportation Center has two office locations in the San Joaquin Valley; one in Fresno and one in Stockton. The San Joaquin Valley Clean Transportation Center website is at www.sjvcleantransportation.org. The San Joaquin Valley Clean Transportation Center has two CALSTART staff members dedicated to the daily operations; Director Joseph Oldham in Fresno and Project Manager Thomas Paddon in Stockton.
Since 2015, the San Joaquin Valley Clean Transportation Center has helped bring over $17.6 million in new projects to the San Joaquin Valley and helped add capacity to regional partners engaged in promoting clean transportation technology and improving air quality. The San Joaquin Valley Clean Transportation Center has provided a channel of engagement between Valley stakeholders and the 180+ CALSTART member companies and facilitated projects that range from deployment of advanced solar powered electric vehicle charging stations to helping develop new incentive programs for natural gas trucks to deployment of the first production electric aircraft in the United States.
