The United States is investing billions of dollars to electrify its school bus fleet. Unlocking the value of their batteries for energy resilience and the grid will further accelerate the transition to clean transportation. This panel will focus on how to rapidly scale up these benefits.

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Tribal communities across the country face a number of unique challenges and opportunities in electrifying their transportation systems. This panel will review the current challenges, highlight promising new initiatives, and discuss future opportunities for equitable access to clean electric mobility in Tribal communities.

The Forth Roadmap Conference is excited to be in the birthplace of the modern automotive industry. Today, Detroit is experiencing a renaissance of innovative electric mobility projects and companies. How has transportation shaped Detroit over time and where is the city headed next?

As the electric vehicle market grows from “early adopters” to “early majority” and beyond, what are we learning about consumer perceptions, needs and barriers? What are major consumer concerns, and what tactics effectively overcome them?

Charging at home is challenging for people who live in multifamily housing - and even more so for low- and moderate-income residents. This panel will explore lessons learned and creative strategies to make charging for residents of multifamily housing easier and more accessible, without contributing to gentrification and displacement.

The federal government is making an unprecedented, once-in-a-generation investment in transportation electrification and other clean technologies. However, the variety of programs can become overwhelming. This session will focus on what funding programs are available; for what purposes; how to take advantage of them; and where to find technical assistance and support.

Manufacturing any product as large and complex as a vehicle has impacts, but efforts are progressing to make EV manufacturing a model of sustainability and social responsibility. This panel will explore the efforts underway to move the electric vehicle and battery industry towards a “circular economy” in which waste becomes raw material for future manufacturing.

This panel will explore best practices and strategies for fleets that face significant challenges in their transition to electric. This includes smaller fleets and those in regions without strong policy support, incentives, or utility programs. How can the industry support these fleets as they electrify?

What have we learned in the first two years of sustained federal investment in EV charging through the NEVI and CFI programs? How can we continue to improve implementation? What does the future hold?

High interest rates have been slowing new car purchases of all types. It is especially hard for historically underserved drivers to access affordable loans for electric cars. This panel will explore this challenge, and efforts to overcome it.

Buckle up, this session will feature quick takes on a range of hot topics in transportation electrification. A Roadmap Conference favorite - you're certain to be informed, challenged, and intrigued.

Electric Mobility Hubs create easy access to multiple transportation options, such as transit and shared bikes and cars. This panel will explore how these hubs are being developed to meet the full range of community mobility needs.

It’s no secret that the user experience with public charging is not good enough. What efforts are underway to make charging more reliable and more accessible? What are emerging best practices and trends?

Through the Justice40 Initiative, the Biden Administration has set a goal of ensuring that at least 40% of program benefits accrue to disadvantaged communities. How is this effort playing out in practice? What’s working, and what are we learning? How are we measuring progress?

Buckle up, this session will feature quick takes on a range of hot topics in transportation electrification. A Roadmap Conference favorite - you're certain to be informed, challenged, and intrigued.

Everything that moves is rapidly going electric. This panel will explore the electrification of construction equipment, cargo-handling equipment and off-road vehicles. These diverse categories each have their own needs and opportunities, and offer unique benefits.

Heavy duty vehicles are electrifying fast, and providing the high power charging these vehicles require, on the timeline that customers need, is a challenge. This panel will explore creative strategies to power electric trucks - with a focus on difficult use cases.

The transition to electric vehicles is creating a range of employment opportunities. This panel will focus on how best to unlock quality jobs and workforce development opportunities in the EV industry, particularly for historically underserved workers.

The current process for upgrading utility infrastructure has been designed to be deliberative and avoid unnecessary investments - but the pace has been faulted as a constraint to widespread transportation electrification. This panel will explore several recent initiatives, reports, and recommendations designed to make grid expansion more rapid and proactive, while continuing to protect ratepayers.

This panel will explore the growing market of used electric vehicles, the unique issues they raise in the marketplace and for consumers, and how policy and programs can help put them in the hands of more drivers.

Smart managed EV charging and grid integration programs can reduce infrastructure costs, increase grid resilience, and earn additional revenue for drivers. This panel will explore lessons learned from demonstration projects and discuss how to more effectively scale programs and benefits.

Significant federal funding is available at the state and local level to increase community transportation infrastructure. For many transportation officials, this is a new responsibility and area of subject knowledge. How are they developing the expertise they need? What are some of the emerging best practices and tools? Where can state and local governments turn for help?

Hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles have been considered part of the strategy for transportation electrification for many years, particularly for heavy duty vehicles. However, progress has been slow. This panel will explore how the recent federal investment of $7 billion in hydrogen hubs across the country will accelerate deployment of hydrogen as a transportation fuel.