Clean Transportation Funding Tracker
The following federal programs and tax credits include funding opportunities to decarbonize on-road, maritime, and aviation transportation sectors. While the program tracker below includes select federal funding programs targeted directly at transportation decarbonization, additional federal incentives may be applied to decarbonize transportation, including electric vehicle incentives, funding sources with broader applicability such as the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) program, and funding sources to replace diesel school buses such as the Clean School Bus (CSB) Grant Program.
Explore by the 4 funding sectors:
Sector 1: On-Road
Funding Programs:
Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicle Program
Authorization: IRA
Agency: EPA
Office: OAR
Funding Amount: $1 billion
Description: Grants and/or rebates to replace dirty heavy-duty vehicles with clean, zero-emission vehicles, support zero-emission vehicle infrastructure, and to train and develop workers.
Eligible Applicants: States, Municipalities, Indian Tribes, Nonprofit school transportation associations, and eligible contractors.
Domestic Manufacturing Conversion Grants
Authorization: IRA
Agency: DOE
Office: Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains
Funding Amount: $2 billion
Description: Cost-shared grants supporting the domestic production of efficient hybrid, plug-in electric hybrid, plug-in electric drive, and hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles.
Eligible Applicants: Recipients should be manufacturing for eligible vehicle types. Includes small businesses, businesses (other than small businesses), and/or individuals.
Carbon Reduction Program (CRP)
Authorization: IIJA
Agency: DOT
Office: FHWA
Funding Amount:
FY23: $1.258B
FY24: $1.283B
FY25: $1.309B
FY26: $1.335B
Description: Funds for projects designed to reduce transportation emissions, defined as carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from on-road highway sources.
Eligible Applicants: States
National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program
Authorization: IIJA
Agency/Agency Office: DOT/DOE Joint Office
Funding Amount: $5 billion
Description: Funds to strategically deploy electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure and to establish an interconnected network to facilitate data collection, access, and reliability.
Eligible Applicants: States
Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Discretionary Grant Program
Authorization: IIJA
Agency/Agency Office: DOT/DOE Joint Office
Funding Amount: $2.5 billion
Description: Funds to strategically deploy publicly accessible electric vehicle charging and alternative fueling infrastructure where people live and work and alongside designated Alternative Fuel Corridors (AFCs).
Eligible Applicants: States or political subdivision of States; Metropolitan planning organizations; Unit of local governments; Special purpose districts or public authorities with a transportation function, including port authorities; Indian tribes; U.S. Territories; Authorities, agencies, or instrumentalities or entities owned by, one or more entities listed above; Group of entities listed above; State or local authorities with ownership of publicly accessible transportation facilities (applies to Community Program only).
Low or No Emission Vehicle Program
Authorization: IIJA
Agency: DOT
Office: FTA
Funding Amount: $1.2 billion
Description: Funds for the purchase or lease of zero-emission and low-emission transit buses, including acquisition, construction, and leasing of required supporting facilities.
Eligible Applicants: Designated recipients of FTA grants, including states, local governmental authorities, and Indian Tribes.
Sector 2: Maritime
Funding Programs:
Clean Ports Program
Authorization: IRA
Agency: EPA
Office: OAR
Funding Amount: $3 billion
Description: Funds for zero-emission port equipment and technology and to help ports develop climate action plans to reduce air pollutants at U.S. ports.
Eligible Applicants: Port authority; State, regional, local, or Tribal agency that has jurisdiction over a port authority or port; Air pollution control agency; Private entity that: Applies in partnership with an eligible entity above, and owns, operates, or uses facilities, cargo-handling equipment, transportation equipment, or related technology of a port.
Reduction of Truck Emissions at Port Facilities
Authorization: IIJA
Agency: DOT
Office: FHWA
Funding Amount: $160 million
Description: Funds to reduce truck idling and emissions at ports, including through port operations efficiency improvements.
Eligible Applicants: State Governments; Local Governments; Planning and Project Organizations; Transportation Providers and Operators; Private-Sector Applicants.
Passenger Ferry Grant Program
Authorization: IIJA
Agency: DOT
Office: FTA
Funding Amount: $50.1 million
Description: Funds to support capital projects to improve existing passenger ferry service, establish new ferry service, and repair and modernize ferry boats, terminals, and related facilities and equipment. $5 million is available only for low- or zero-emission ferries or ferries using electric battery or fuel cell components and the infrastructure to support such ferries.
Eligible Applicants: State Governments; Local Governments; Federally Recognized Tribes and Affiliated Groups
Electric or Low-Emitting Ferry Pilot Program
Authorization: IIJA
Agency: DOT
Office: FTA
Funding Amount: $50 Million/year FY 2022-2026 advance appropriations
Description: Funds to assist in the financing of capital projects for the purchase of electric or low-emitting ferry vessels that reduce emissions by using alternative fuels or on-board energy storage systems and related charging infrastructure to reduce emissions or produce zero onboard emissions under normal operation.
Eligible Applicants: State Governments; Local Governments; Federally Recognized Tribes and Affiliated Groups; U.S. Territories
Sector 3: Aviation
Funding Programs:
FAST-SAF Grant Program
Authorization: IRA
Agency: DOT
Office: FAA
Funding Amount: $244.53 million
Description: Funds for projects that produce, transport, blend, or store sustainable aviation fuel.
Eligible Applicants: A State or local government, including the District of Columbia, other than an airport sponsor; an air carrier; an airport sponsor; an accredited institution of higher education; a research institution; a person or entity engaged in the production, transportation, blending, or storage of sustainable aviation fuel in the United States or feedstocks in the United States that could be used to produce sustainable aviation fuel; a person or entity engaged in the development, demonstration, or application of low-emission aviation technologies; or nonprofit entities or nonprofit consortia with experience in sustainable aviation fuels, low-emission aviation technologies, or other clean transportation research programs.
FAST-TECH Grant Program
Authorization: IRA
Agency: DOT
Office: FAA
Funding Amount: $46.53 million
Description: Funds for projects that develop, demonstrate, or apply low-emission aviation technologies.
Eligible Applicants: A State or local government, including the District of Columbia, other than an airport sponsor; an air carrier; an airport sponsor; an accredited institution of higher education; a research institution; a person or entity engaged in the production, transportation, blending, or storage of sustainable aviation fuel in the United States or feedstocks in the United States that could be used to produce sustainable aviation fuel; a person or entity engaged in the development, demonstration, or application of low-emission aviation technologies; or nonprofit entities or nonprofit consortia with experience in sustainable aviation fuels, low-emission aviation technologies, or other clean transportation research programs.
Tax Credit: 40B Sustainable Aviation Fuel Credit
Agency: Treasury
Type: Production
Purpose: Credit for the sale or use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), which achieves a lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions reduction of at least 50% as compared with petroleum-based jet fuel producers and blenders of SAF-kerosene fuel mixtures for aviation.
Sector 4: Cross-Sector
Funding Programs:
Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program (ATVM)
Authorization: IIJA and IRA
Agency: DOE
Office: Loan Programs Office
Funding Amount: $3 billion of credit subsidy appropriations under IRA (resulting in an estimated $40 billion of direct loans)
Description: Loans to support the manufacture of eligible advanced technology vehicles and qualifying components. Includes light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, trains or locomotives, maritime vessels including offshore wind support vessels, aircrafts, and hyperloop.
Eligible Applicants: A manufacturer of eligible advanced technology vehicles or of qualifying components.
Tax Credit: 45V Credit for Production of Clean Hydrogen
Agency: Treasury
Type: Production
Purpose: Credit for the production of qualified clean hydrogen.
Tax Credit: 45Z Clean Fuel Production Credit
Agency: Treasury
Type: Production
Purpose: Credit for domestic production of clean transportation fuels.
