Clean Mobility Options Voucher Pilot Program

Clean Mobility Options (CMO) is a statewide public program that empowers under-resourced communities across California to better understand and overcome mobility obstacles with vouchers that fund community needs assessments and clean, shared, zero-emission transportation projects.  

 

SUPPORT

Provides comprehensive technical assistance to help applicants through a streamlined application process, CMO administrators work to make this critical funding more easily accessible to eligible applicants.

 

FUNDING

Clean Mobility Options is funded by California Climate Investments, a statewide initiative that puts billions of Cap-and-Trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, and improving public health and the environment—particularly in underserved communities, and California Energy Commission’s Clean Transportation Program, which is investing more than $1 billion to accelerate the deployment of zero-emission transportation infrastructure and support in-state manufacturing and workforce training and development.

GOALS

  • Improve access to clean mobility options that are safe, reliable, convenient, and affordable.
  • Advance workforce development in the clean transportation sector.
  • Increase zero-emission vehicle adoption.
  • Reduce vehicle miles traveled.
  • Advance mobility equity.
  • Improve local air quality.

About the Administrator Team

CALSTART is a nonprofit consortium with offices in New York, Michigan, Colorado, California and central Europe and partners world-wide, CALSTART works with 300+ member company and agency innovators to build a prosperous, efficient, and clean high-tech transportation industry. We overcome barriers to modernization and the adoption of clean vehicles. CALSTART is changing transportation for good.

Shared Use Mobility Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the deployment of shared transportation services such as electric vehicle carsharing, ridesharing, bikesharing and demand responsive transit in order to enhance mobility and quality of life for all. The organization was founded in 2014 by Sharon Feigon, former CEO of the successful Chicago carshare service IGO, and now carries out projects around the nation through its offices in Los Angeles and Chicago. SUMC offers a substantial body of work and expertise that is uniquely relevant to the Clean Mobility Options program.

CivicWell, formerly the Local Government Commission, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization supporting sustainable solutions and the community leaders who implement them. CivicWell inspires, equips, connects, and cultivates leadership for local innovation and community change, especially for leaders responding to the climate crisis and its impacts on their communities.