Account for Climate Constraints in Clean Mobility Planning. In regions experiencing extreme heat, clean mobility strategies emphasize vehicle electrification and charging reliability over walking, biking, or transit options that are impractical for much of the year. Climate-responsive planning ensures transportation electrification strategies reflect local environmental conditions.

Leverage Regional Partners and Aggregate Data to Support Transportation Electrification Planning. Local governments work through CCAs, MPOs, and regional energy networks to coordinate EV charging and fleet electrification, engage utilities at scale, aggregate demand, and apply regional or proxy datasets when site-specific utility data is unavailable. This regional approach strengthens local capacity and enables planning despite data access constraints.

Workforce shortages and uneven contractor capacity—especially outside major metros—slow EV charging and fleet deployment, while disadvantaged, rural, tribal, and multifamily communities face higher upgrade costs and less utility engagement. These constraints reinforce inequities in access to clean mobility and resilience benefits.

EV charging infrastructure and electric fleets are rarely planned with resilience and emergency operations in mind. As a result, vehicles and chargers cannot reliably function during outages or serve as backup power or mobility assets for community response.

Transportation electrification is undermined by fragmented governance and funding structures across transportation, building, and energy systems. Siloed departments and unaligned state and federal programs prevent coordinated planning for chargers, building electrical upgrades, and grid investments, forcing local governments to piece together disconnected solutions.

Allow non-IOUs to be Program Administrators under the Transportation Electrification Framework