Deadline: 14-Jan-22
The City of Vancouver is seeking innovative ideas that support the City’s pursuit of zero-emission fleets (medium- to heavy-duty), including alternative fuels solutions.
The City of Vancouver has committed to reducing fleet emissions by 60% compared to 2007 by 2030 and transitioning to 100% renewable energy usage by 2050.
In 2018, the City’s fleet shifted to 100% renewable diesel fuel provided by Suncor. This is a major step towards using 100% renewable fuels in the fleet as 49% of the fleet is fuelled by diesel. With the new shift in fuel providers, the diesel will go from 5% biodiesel content (B5) to 100% renewable diesel (R100) and be 100% renewable.
12% of the City’s fuel use is CNG with 37% of that CNG being Renewable Natural Gas (RNG). In the near future, the RNG that they use will be from captured methane at the landfill. The City of Vancouver has a dedicated natural gas compression station that allows for the vehicles (including 40 refuse trucks) to be operated on 100% CNG.
The City currently has over 145 electric vehicles (EVs) in their fleet and plans to reach over 200 in 2022, including:
- Medium and heavy duty trucks including refuse trucks, tractor trailers, and delivery vans
- Long range passenger vehicles
To support these electric vehicles, the City has dedicated fleet EV charging stations which includes:
- 85 level two charging stations
- 4 DC fast charging stations
Further, the City currently has over 85 hybrid or plug-in hybrid vehicles in their fleet.
Benefits
- Participation in a high-quality EU programme that seeks to streamline state-of-the-art technologies and sustainable solutions into the Canadian Market;
- Tailored delivery of technical assistance and business coaching to enable Joint Business Concepts (JBCs) between EU SMEs & Canadian Buyers.
- The opportunity to work directly with a Canadian buyer that is actively seeking innovative solutions.
Eligibility Criteria
- All Challenges are fully open to all EU companies who feel they can meet the Buyer Challenge Statement.
- To facilitate purposeful business collaborations between Canadian Buyers and EU Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) and Small/Mid-Caps and Mature-Startups and Micro-Enterprises, that have a distinct positive low-carbon and circular economy environmental impact, are scalable, reflect a sound return on investment, and enable innovative technology transfer and business transactions.
Criteria
- The City is seeking low-cost, high impact solutions that will help the city to achieve a zero-emissions fleet using alternative fuel sources.
- The City of Vancouver is targeting companies with solutions that land between TRL 6-9 of the technology readiness scale (TRL), although it will consider low TRL solutions on a demonstration basis if they are especially novel.
- Where applicable, proponents should explain how their solutions meets safety and regulatory standards and provide a description of successful deployments.
- Provide CAPEX and OPEX details for the solution. The City of Vancouver prefers an investment payback/cost recovery within fewer than five years. However, it will consider five- to eight-year paybacks with additional due diligence.
- If applicable, proponents should explain coverage (i.e., how many installations will the solution need?), impact (i.e., how does the solution help Vancouver achieve its Climate Emergency Action Plan targets), reliability (i.e., how well will the solution perform in real-world environments?).
For more information, visit https://lcbacanada.com/challenge-archive/low-carbon-fuel-supply-and-infrastructure-for-city-fleets-vec-city-of-vancouver/