Cities Summit of the Americas

Key themes:   

• E-mobility regulatory policy best practices for market adoption and social equity;
• Regional cross-border challenges in the Americas
• Public financing of E-Mobility infrastructure

Panel Overview:

The panel brings together subnational experts and project implementers from across the Americas (the binational region of San Diego, CA/Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico; Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico; Denver, Colorado and San Jose, Costa Rica) to examine e-mobility related regulatory best practices and lessons learned related to market adoption, EV-infrastructure, approaches to public and private financing as social equity.   The session will be of value to municipal and other sub-national leaders working to implement their own e-mobility strategic plans during the coming years.

Panelists, Themes & Topics 

I.               Regulatory Policy & Implementation:  

• Jennifer Gress, Ph.D., Chief, Sustainable Transportation & Communities Division, California Air Quality Resources Board (CARB) [Topic:  E-mobility implementation, Regulatory best practices, and social equity issues].  

• Silvia Rojas Soto, President, ALAMOS – Asociación Latinoamericana de Movilidad Sostenible and former Director General, Asociación Costarricense de Movilidad Eléctrica  [Topic:  Costa Rica EV tax incentives;  Cross-Border Innovations:  Ruta Eléctrica San José – Ciudad de Panamá ] 

• Grace Troccolo Rink, Executive Director, Office of Climate Action, Sustainability & Resiliency, City & County of Denver [Topic:  City of Denver e-bike rebate program] 

II.             Cross-Border EV Collaboration  

• LIc. Kurt Honold, Secretary of Economy & Innovation, State of Baja California [[Topic:  E-Mobility Infrastructure and Cross-Border Impacts of California’s EV regulatory mandate.] 

III.            EV Public Transport Financing: 

• Angel Cárdenas, General Manager of Urban Development, Water and Creative Economies of CAF Development Bank of Latin America [E-mobility financing trends and innovations in Latin America & the Caribbean] 
• Antonio Astiazarán Gutiérrez, Mayor of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico [Public Financing of EV Fleet, Municipal Police Department] 

Moderator:  Richard Kiy, President & CEO, Institute of the Americas