CuseCar » cusecar grant http://cusecar.org Go-Green - Car Share Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:49:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 CuseCar gets $1.8 million grant to set up alternative fueling stations http://cusecar.org/2009/09/cusecar-gets-1-8-million-grant-to-set-up-alternative-fueling-stations/ http://cusecar.org/2009/09/cusecar-gets-1-8-million-grant-to-set-up-alternative-fueling-stations/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:26:47 +0000 sroberts http://cusecar.org/?p=1299 Syracuse, NY — The federal government has awarded CuseCar a $1.8 million grant to set up fueling stations for cars that use alternative fuels.

The grant from the Department of Energy’s Clean Cities Stimulus Funding is part of a $3.7 million project to create a fuel hub in the former mail and freight depot on Burnet Avenue near Interstate 690, as well as 68 stations around Onondaga County.

The grant was announced this morning by Rep. Dan Maffei, Synapse Partners LLCl and Universal Brownfield Revitalization Corp.

CuseCar, a nonprofit company that rents cars by the hour, started up last summer. It was one of 12 organizations in March to win state grants for “sustainable” transportation projects that could help reduce the environmental impacts of cars and trucks.

“We hope this creates behavioral change for people,” said Synapse Partner Brian H. Macrae said this morning.

The biggest change people will notice about the project is the demolition of the deteriorating roof on the train platform visible from I-690. The group plans to install solar panels in place of the roof that will charge the fueling station on Burnet Avenue, Macrae said.

The hub will fuel electric, hydrogen and natural gas powered vehicles.

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