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HTUF IN BIRMINGHAM RECAP

Miss the HTUF Southeast Regional Workshop and Ride & Drive?

Here's a recap:

Audience at HTUF SE Regional Workshop and Ride & Drive May 22, 2013, Birmingham AL.

Check out this TruckingInfo.com photo gallery. Read the article. Other coverage from Birmingham from Work Truck Magazine.

Over 150 attendees gathered at the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum in Birmingham, Alabama for the first-ever HTUF Southeast Regional Fleet Workshop on May 22. Fleet professionals with over 22 public and municipal fleets attended the meeting, including Coca-Cola United, Beverage Works/RedBull, the University of Alabama and Palmetto Gas.

The regional workshop, which will be replicated in New York, Southern and Northern California later this year, was a one-day forum designed to provide fleet managers with the information and tools they need to introduced advanced fuels and technologies into their fleets. The workshop was centered around a Ride & Drive event, allowing attendees to test drive a variety of vehicles featuring different fuels and technologies: propane, CNG, electric, hybrid, and electric power take-off. Read the full article at the HTUF Blog.

WELCOME TO HTUF 2013

Welcome to HTUF 2013: High-Efficiency Truck Users Forum

CALSTART’s High-Efficiency Truck Users Forum (HTUF) kicks-off the new year with a fresh focus and new opportunities for stakeholder engagement. HTUF has been very successful in helping launch the first production of hybrid trucks and is credited with cutting up to two years from product development. The program is operated by CALSTART in partnership with the U.S. Army’s National Automotive Center (NAC), with project support from the Hewlett Foundation and the Department of Energy (DOE).

The general trend for HTUF in 2013 will be to identify and address top priority cross-cutting issues that affect the commercial and military high-efficiency truck industry. Our goal is to eliminate barriers and develop enablers to increase fleet adoption of commercially-viable high-efficiency technologies. We aim to do that through two newly formed groups: the Commercial Truck Action Group (CTAG) and a Military Truck Action Group (MTAG).

There are several program changes and additions throughout 2013 and we invite you to engage with us to learn more about what these changes can do for the industry. To kick off these activities, we invite your participation in each of these ways:

Meeting Summary: Working Together to Accelerate the High-Efficiency Truck Market

Fifty-five people participated in the kick-off meeting of the High-Efficiency Truck Users Forum (HTUF) on February 20 to kick-off brainstorming of the “new” HTUF. The focus was on commercially viable, high-efficiency technologies and which of those have the greatest potential to improve fuel-efficiency and achieve favorable life-cycle costs. Presentations and worksheets are available here. Keep checking back for summary findings.

Meeting Summary: Clarifying Hybrid OBD Requirements for California

More than sixty people joined CALSTART and the California Air Resources Board in El Monte, CA in a conversation to better understand what the state on-board diagnostic (OBD) requirements are for Heavy-Duty (HD) hybrid vehicles. The state aims to transition a large part of the HD fleet to hybrids over the next 15-20 years. The presentations from the meeting are available here with summary findings from the ensuing conversations to follow.

Webinar: HTUF 2013 New Directions

175 people signed up for the HTUF 2013 kick-off webinar to learn about the new core activities and priorities for the High-Efficiency Truck Users Forum (HTUF). Thanks to those who participated, and those who were unable to join can catch up by viewing Kevin Beaty’s, CALSTART Vice President and HTUF Director, presentation here.

CLEAN VEHICLE VOUCHER-BASED INCENTIVE PROGRAMS

CALSTART is operating currently a very successful truck and bus incentives voucher program in California funded by the California Air Resources Board – the Hybrid Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP). CALSTART realizes for successful sales of clean vehicles nationally, we need to work to ensure commercial truck incentives are available beyond California and are offered to fleets which operate in other states. CALSTART and NYSERDA in New York are working now on another voucher incentive program for the State of New York. We have developed a white paper discussing the voucher as a regional tool for successful purchases of clean vehicles by fleets

This white paper highlights the emerging opportunity to create a state- and regionally- supported national network of voucher-based incentives to speed commercial vehicle sales, even in the face of federal budget cuts. The publication show the value and effectiveness of point-of-purchase “vouchers” as the best tools to spur sales of clean commercial vehicles.

The slide set summarizes clean commercial truck incentives available in California, and incentives soon to be available in New York and Chicago.

Clean Tech Vouchers - A Tool for All Regions

This white paper highlights the emerging opportunity to create a state- and regionally- supported national network of voucher-based incentives to speed commercial vehicle sales, even in the face of federal budget cuts. The publication show the value and effectiveness of point-of-purchase “vouchers” as the best tools to spur sales of clean commercial vehicles.

HTUF'S NEW LEADER

HTUF recently announced it's got a new lead, Kevin Beaty, formerly of Eaton Corp. He will also serve as a VP at CALSTART, the organization that administers HTUF. Mr. Beaty summarizes his enthusiasm for joining CALSTART by stating, “CALSTART is uniquely positioned to partner with industry and government to help drive this market forward by focusing on an integrated approach to technology development and deployment, commercialization, policy and education. I am excited to have an opportunity to contribute to CALSTART’s mission and to help advance the entire high-efficiency truck market.”

Beaty will be based in a new CALSTART Midwest office in Michigan.
Read the press release for details.

About HTUF
HTUF is the nation’s leading program driving production and use of medium- and heavy-duty high-efficiency trucks and buses. HTUF is a national program operated by CALSTART in partnership with and under contract to the US Army TARDEC National Automotive Center.

About CALSTART
CALSTART is a non-profit organization that is focused on energy security, clean air, and economic development by spurring the growth of clean transportation technology. CALSTART works nationally, and has offices in California and Colorado. For more about CALSTART and its 150+ member companies, visit: www.calstart.org and www.htuf2012.org