The Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation inaugurated the E4 Mobility Alliance, a professional group of executives from industry, government, and academia in 2010. It specifically focused on four key areas, thus the branding of “E4:” economy, energy, efficiency, and environment. The E4 Mobility Alliance dedicated it efforts toward growing the electrification, infrastructure, renewable methane, and hydrogen fuel cell transportation industry sector. In 2014, the E4 Mobility Alliance and Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation organized the E4 Advanced Transportation Center as a public/private partnership with CEC funding and with multiple match funding organizations.
The Center, in its almost 3 years of existence, has organized physical locations in Los Angeles (Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator), Orange County (Sustain Orange County in University of California, Irvine’s Cove innovation center), and San Diego (Center for Sustainable Energy). Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation provides overall project and grant management including web site coordination for the multiple physical sites. In addition, the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation provided digital marketing, maintained a mailing list, and organized quarterly meetings as well as executive advisory councils and transportation related webinars. Membership (opt in to mailing list) is now in the thousands and through regular E4 Mobility Alliance meetings, the Center has built a reputation for getting things done, connecting people, and convening regional leadership to address contemporary issues such as autonomous and connected vehicles.
