UCLA, UC Davis host world conference on electric vehicles and cities

The UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation and the UC Davis Plug-In Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Research Center host the World Electric Vehicle Cities and Ecosystems Conference, which will explore best practices and innovative solutions for the deployment of plug-in electric vehicles in cities throughout the world.

 

The one-day conference brings together more than 300 government leaders, business executives and nonprofit directors from a variety of countries, including Australia, China, England, France, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Spain and the United States.

 

The event will include panels on designing parking and roads for EVs; financing and maintaining charging stations; using EVs in public transportation; and EV goals for nonprofits, foundations and governments, among others topics, and will feature the release of the much-anticipated EV City Casebook, which provides a look at the global EV movement by detailing policies and programs in 16 cities around the globe.

 

In addition, the Global Electric Vehicle Insight Exchange, an international knowledge-sharing consortium that tracks worldwide EV-deployment progress, will be announced, as will the World EV Cities and Ecosystems web portal, which serves as a central hub for collaborative EV-deployment and research efforts and disseminates best EV-deployment practices to global stakeholders. 

 

Keynote speakers at the conference will include:

 

Assistant secretary of policy and international affairs for the U.S. Department of Energy

 

Vice president of government affairs for BMW

  

 

WHEN:
8 a.m.–5:30 p.m., Saturday, May 5

(The conference will be followed by a reception.)

 

WHERE:
J.W. Marriott hotel at LA Live (map)

900 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90015 

 

More information on the conference may be found at http://bit.ly/Hw6ZEw.

 

Media inquiries should be directed to Teresa Lara at tlara@publicaffairs.ucla.edu or 310-502-5763.