The Bay Area Charge Ahead Project 1 installed 39 dual-port electric vehicle charging stations in nine communities and twenty-two separate sites located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sites were located in the cities of Campbell, Cupertino, Los Gatos, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale; the County of San Mateo; and Stanford University.
The purpose of project was to improve the availability of electric vehicle charging in publicly accessible locations thus promoting the use of fuel-efficient and non-polluting plug-in electric vehicles. The project investigated the effect of assessing fees to electric vehicle drivers for use of the charging stations as well as various fee structures. The project tracked the process and cost of purchasing, installing, operating, and maintaining charging.
Site Hosts (local government agencies) were selected for this project based on need and ability to provide locations and commitment to continuing the operation of the stations when the project is complete. ChargePoint supplied the charging stations at a 25 percent discount which provided most the matching funding. ABM supplied the installation engineering and labor. To do so, ABM signed a Site Host Agreement with each participating agency prior to installation. Each charging station supplied data that was analyzed by the Prime Contractor for usage based on date, time, and amount of power supplied.
