Snowmass, Colorado – A new initiative, Project Get Ready, has been launched to help U.S. communities prepare for plug-in vehicles. The project was launched by the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI).

Many communities are working to accelerate the adoption of plug-in vehicles, but do not yet have a way to share best practices and lessons learned, and automakers have no way to find all the places working to get ready for plug-in vehicles to evaluate their progress and consumer interest. This missing connection has been cited by automakers as a critical barrier to committing to higher plug-in vehicle production.

Among the communities that have agreed to work with the project are Portland, Oregon; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Raleigh, North Carolina.

“These pioneering communities represent widely different locations, demographics, economics and cultures, proving that plug-in vehicles will be an important transformation across the nation,” said project manager Laura Schewel.

The project includes a dynamic menu of strategic actions for city and regional leaders, a web database of national and international plug-in readiness activities, and documentation of the progress made by participant cities to help quantify future demand and make it more transparent to industry.

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