Bay Area EV Coordinating Council
Sharing knowledge to accelerate electric vehicle adoption across the Bay Area and beyond
The Bay Area Electric Vehicle Coordinating Council, or EV Council, is a peer-to-peer forum of diverse stakeholders that meets several times a year, often hosting expert panels to discuss new EV trends, information, and best practices for projects.
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EV Council members represent a cross-section of EV stakeholders from all nine Bay Area counties:
Charging infrastructure and technology companies
Auto manufacturers
City and county staff
Transit agencies and authorities
Federal and state government agencies
Utilities and community choice aggregators
Interest groups
Interest groups
Regional entities
Acterra facilitates all EV Council meetings and hosts meetings of the Steering Committee.
Meeting Calendar
Our next meeting:
September 2026, Date TBD. This meeting will be virtual, via Zoom. Members will receive an announcement closer to the date.
Past Meetings
The Road to Public Charging Success (June 4, 2026, in San Francisco)
Link to Ms. Eyzaguirre's Slide Deck - coming soon.
This in-person meeting was not recorded.
Public charging infrastructure is the backbone of EV adoption, but deploying chargers is only half the battle. The real challenge — and opportunity — is operating them well. Partners across the region grapple with real day to day complications with keeping the charging network up and running. Can new business models ease some of the burden? We will consider options such as passing operations and maintenance of the charging network from public sector staff to a private vendor, as is being explored by some counties, and other potential approaches. This meeting brings together public agency staff, utilities, charging operators, and private sector partners to learn what it actually takes to run a successful public charging network amid a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape. special guest Claudia Eyzaguirre, Specialist with the CEC, presented on new state-level reporting and reliability standards for EV chargers.
EV Infrastructure Deployment and Certification / Weight and Measures (March 25, 2026)
Link to Panelists Slide Deck
Link to the Meeting Recording
If you’d like to receive updates, including future meeting dates, we invite you to join the Council - we’d be happy to have you! You can also browse our meetings archive.
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Steering Committee
The EV Council benefits from a steering committee that advises the facilitation team on industry developments and helps shape meeting topics and format. Steering committee members connect with other industry thought leaders and actively contribute to important discussions. Members commit about six hours per year to steering committee meetings. We seek to have a broad representation of sectors on the steering committee.
Steering Committee Members:
Nicole Appenzeller
San Francisco Environment Department
Senior Clean Transportation Specialist
Maureen Blanc
Charge Across Town
Executive Director
Josh Chanin
San Jose Clean Energy
Senior Decarbonization Program Specialist
James Choe
Metropolitan Transportation Commission
Climate Program Manager
Rachel DiFranco
City of Palo Alto
Utilities Program Services Manager
Brendan Havenar-Daughton
Contra Costa County
Energy Manager
Mikaela Hiatt
Transportation Authority of Marin
Associate Transportation Planner
Phillip Kobernick
Peninsula Clean Energy
Senior Transportation Programs Manager
Ted Lamm
UC Berkeley School of Law - CLEE
Senior Research Fellow, Climate
Caylee Mercado
Bay Area Air District
Grants Specialist
Sarah Moore
City of Berkeley
Sustainability Program Manager
Jennifer Sajor (Alternate)
City of Berkeley
Electric Mobility Coordinator
Annika Osborn
Cool the Earth
Director of Programs and Community Development
Vivian Rahwanji
Community Housing Development Corporation of North Richmond
Director of Operations
Stacey Reineccius
Powertree Services Inc.
CEO
Gopal Shanker
Récolte Energy
President
Heidi Sickler
Terawatt Infrastructure, Inc.
Energy and Environment Senior Associate
Zac Thompson
Ava Community Energy
Senior Associate, Energy Resources Program
Brett Wiley (Alternate)
Ava Community Energy
Senior Program Associate, Electric Mobility
Kevin Xue
Tesla
Policy Analyst, North American Charging
Resources
Electric Vehicle Resources
- PG&E Integration Capacity Analysis and Distribution Investment Deferral Framework maps
- Charge@Work – CALSTART
- Charge@Work is a DOE-funded National Workplace Charging program. Through the Charge@Work program, CALSTART and partners provide free technical assistance to employers interested in pursuing workplace charging projects.
- Electric Vehicle Resource Center
- Design Recommendations for Accessible Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
- Plan Bay Area 2050+
- Browse Our Meetings Archive: watch our recent videos on YouTube
- PG&E’s Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Rule 29 Factsheet (Design and deployment of service extension for EV charging stations)
- Equitable EV Action Plan Framework – UC Berkeley (guide to assist local governments and stakeholders in crafting EV and electrified mobility action plans to achieve transportation decarbonization through locally tailored, equity-focused strategies
- EV Equity Roadmap – UC Berkeley (mapping tool to inform equity-oriented site selection for EV and e-mobility infrastructure investments
Contact Us!
If you have questions about the Council or would like to be considered for the steering committee, please contact the facilitator at EV.Council [at] acterra.org.