Draft2:National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium
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The National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium (NAFTC) is a pioneer and national leader in developing, managing, and promoting programs and activities that desire to cure America’s addiction to oil, lead to energy independence, and encourage the greater use of cleaner transportation. The NAFTC is the only nationwide alternative fuel vehicle and advanced technology vehicle training organization in the United States. It is our mission to provide the training infrastructure for implementing widespread use of alternative fuels, alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs), and advanced technology vehicles, in an effort to increase our nation’s energy security and improve our air quality by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from our transportation system.
The NAFTC is headquartered at West Virginia University and consists of National Training Centers (NTCs) located nationwide from Maine to California. Each NTC provides Training with Impact through its experienced instructors and real-world shop facilities.
NAFTC was founded in 1992 by the West Virginia University Energy Institute where NAFTC’s headquarters reside.
DOE relevance
- Clean Cities Coalition Network (Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy)
- Clean Cities Now - January 2007
- Advanced Electric Drive Vehicle Education Program
Electric vehicle ecosystem in Appalachia
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) project partners Tennessee Technological University, the West Virginia Clean Cities Program and the National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium of WVU Energy Institute, are reimagining transportation in rural America by working to build an electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem in Appalachia, and these efforts recently took a crucial step forward in Marion County, West Virginia.
See Electric Vehicle Ecosystem IN Appalachia Advancing with NETL Support for more details.
Goals
Promote safe, clean, efficient over-the-road transportation technologies to move people and goods powered by domestically available energy resources that are alternatives to gasoline and diesel fuel
- Create the pipeline of future workers needed to support these advanced technology vehicles and related systems through a national education and training program
- Collaborate with like-minded stakeholders of advanced automotive technologies including alternative fuel providers, original equipment manufacturers, automotive dealers, automotive aftermarket, fleet owners, and government and non-government agencies who promote the adoption of AFV/EVs such as the U.S. Department of Energy Clean Cities coalitions who are eligible to become Stakeholder Members