CALSTART

Calstart is a non-profit organization for the development and implementation of large-scale zero-emission transportation solutions with businesses, governments, and organizations to improve air quality, mitigate climate change and support economic growth. It provides technical, scientific, and policy analysis to support regulatory development for clean technology and infrastructure acceleration.Alec Glassford, Sergio Hernandez, Nat Lash, Andrea Suozzo, Ruth Talbot, "Calstart - Nonprofit Exporer" ProPublica. Retrieved 2024/1/29 It is headquartered in Pasadena, California.Pasadena Chamber of Commerce and Civic Association, Non-profit Organizations and Associations Directory, Retrieved 2024/1/29
John Boesel has served as president and CEO of the organization since 2001. Boesel is a member of the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies Board of AdvisorsUC Davis
Institute of Transportation Studies, Board of Advisors, , Retrieved 2024/1/29 and a member of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Mobile Source Technical Review Subcommittee.United States Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Air Act Advisory Committee (CAAAC), Membership of the Mobile Sources Technical Review Subcommittee (MSTRS), Retrieved 2024/1/29
Candid, an independent charity evaluator, has given Calstart a Platinum Transparency rating.Candid Guidestar, EIN 95-4375022 , Retrieved 2024/1/29
==History==
Calstart was established in response both to the growing contribution to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissionsTony Briscoe, "Los Angeles gets 'F' grade for air quality once again in national report". Los Angeles Times. 19 April 2023, Retrieved 2024/1/29 by the transportation sector, and to the decline of jobs in aerospace industry after the end of the Cold War, David J. Lynch, The Calstart consortium (electric vehicle industry), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Spectrum, Volume: 30, Issue: 7, July 1993. Retrieved 2024/1/1 to create a clean transportation industry in the state.Allen J. Scott, Southern California: The Detroit of Electric Cars?, Access Magazine, 1(3), 8-13. 1993. Retrieved 2024/1/29John Slifko, D L Rigby Industrial Policy in Southern California: The Production of Markets, Technologies, and Institutional Support for Electric Vehicles, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 1995 27:6, 933-954.Alan C. Miller, Valley Could Be Focus of Push to Build Electric Car, Los Angeles Times, October 27, 1991. Retrieved 2024/1/29Adrian Ma, Wailin Wong, Cooper Katz McKim, James Willetts, Angel Carreras, Paddy Hirsch, Kate Concannon: How to transform a war economy, NPR, The Indicator, January 31, 2024, Retrieved 2024/2/1
Calstart initially worked out of an old aircraft hangar at Lockheed's original Skunk Works site in Burbank, CA. 
Calstart was first led by its co-founder Lon Bell (former president of TRW Technar), and then until 1999 by Michael Gage, former deputy mayor of Los Angeles.
It created a showcase electric vehicleDavid J. Lynch, The Calstart consortium (electric vehicle industry), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Spectrum, Volume: 30, Issue: 7, page 56, July 1993. Retrieved 2024/1/1 within its first year. It helped develop hybrid and electric powertrains for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and components, including the first hybrid electric busDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency: Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technologies: Cooperative Agreement MDA972-95-2-0011 Retrieved 2024/1/1 via Defense Tactical Information Center and components like differentialsJoint Tactical Electric Vehicle Differential Development Retrieved 2024/1/1 via Defense Tactical Information Center or aluminum spaceframes for electric vehicles.Robert Logan, Scott A. Prefect, Ray D Parkinson: Energy absorption in aluminum extrusions for a spaceframe chassis U.S. Department of Energy,
Office of Scientific and Technical Information, OSTI ID 110736. Retrieved 2024/1/29
==Areas of work==
Calstart operates in road and off-road transportation sectors, including fuels and infrastructures. It is active in technology development;e.g., planning the East Coast Commercial ZEV Corridor along the I-95: Josh Fischer "Feds help fund freight decarbonization projects from coast to coast" in FleetOwner, Feb. 22, 2023. Retrieved 2024/1/29 market acceleration programs;e.g., California Energy Commission: Energiize, California Air Resources Board: HVIP technical and market analyses; Jack Roberts: Phasing in U.S. Charging Infrastructure in Heavy Duty Trucking, September 6, 2023. Retrieved 2024/01/29 public policy advisory, and support for its member organizations.
It is internationally active via Drive to Zero,Clean Energy Ministerial: Global Drive to Zero Retrieved 2024/1/29 part of Clean Energy Ministerial, and Global Memorandum of Understanding (MOU),Government of the Netherlands: Global Memorandum of Understanding on Zero-Emission Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles. Retrieved 2024/01/29 co-led with the Netherlands. Both programs focus on decarbonizing commercial vehicles.
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