On May 24, Sarthak Prasad met with Gabe Lewis to talk about EVs. Gabe is the Transportation Planner at the Champaign County Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC) and he currently leads the RPC Tech Committee which consists of 7 members – Champaign, Urbana, Savoy, Rantoul, St. Joseph, Mahomet, and Champaign County. Most recently, they had been talking about the feasibility of EVs in urban as well as the rural areas in the county.

We talked about the US DOT's Charging Forward, an EV toolkit, that is primarily focused on EV Charging in the rural areas: https://www.transportation.gov/rural/ev/toolkit

We also talked about Clean City Coalition. State of Illinois does not have a coalition, but Chicago has one and we could potentially reach out to them: https://cleancities.energy.gov/coalitions/

https://cleancities.energy.gov/coalitions/chicago

Also discussed the federal funding available through National EV Infrastructure (NEVI), Carbon Reduction Program (CRP), State and Local Planning for Energy (https://maps.nrel.gov/slope/), and EV Pro Lite (https://afdc.energy.gov/evi-pro-lite)

Robert O'Daniell met with Morgan and me on Friday, May 13, 2022. We talked about the following topics:

• The University's upcoming task force for EVs. There will be two task forces -
  • On-campus
  • Community
• Reserve List for new EVs - backlog of about 18 months. Ford is not putting more people on this list now.
• How much EVs/Hybrids save over time
  • With the Tax credits and saving on fuel, the cost is very comparable and sometimes cheaper than gasoline car
  • Maintenance cost of EVs are very low
• EV Town initiative at Bloomington/Normal area
• QwikTrip chargers
  • None currently in Champaign
• We talked about possibly adding Solar Arc at Lincoln & Florida parking lot
  • I will look at the product and possibly ask SSC for funding in the future
• We also talked about the people Robert has reached out to so far
• EV-Go
• Electrify America
• Where to place a Fast Charger in Champaign-Urbana?
• I will connect Robert with Gabe Lewis at CCRPC.

Robert also provided some documents that were updated from last meeting with me (Introductory meeting with Robert O'Daniell)

I met with Robert O'Daniell on Wednesday, April 27, 2022. We covered several topics, including the electrification trend, Federal and State tax credits for EVs, but majority of the time was dedicated to learn about the EV charging stations in Champaign County as compared to other cities.

Robert also shared his own experience as an EV owner and the survey he is currently conducting to gauge interest in increasing the number of public-use EV charging and possibility of introducing DC Fast Charging to the campus and Champaign County.

I will create the survey on Google Forms, and then help deploy it on-campus. We also discussed where to promote this survey.

See attached the documents that we covered during this meeting.

Just wanted to provide a wonderful update on Indoor bins for the iCAP portal: The campus has 180 out of 200 available multi stream bins deployed in 56 different campus buildings. According to the iCAP metric, we are 1/3 of the way to our FY24 goal. ~Sydney Trimble