Title: Clean Transportation in Southern California: Technology & Policy Lessons Learned

Abstract: Southern California has long had the nation’s worst air quality, and mobile sources produce most of its smog-forming NOx. For two decades, Dr. Matt Miyasato has worked to bring cleaner vehicles and fuels to market. At the South Coast Air Quality Management District, he led and funded first-of-a-kind projects with major automakers and truck makers. More recently, as Chief Public Policy & Programs Officer at FirstElement Fuel, he helped secure grants and shape state policy for the world’s largest retail hydrogen network. Dr. Miyasato will review some of the milestone projects at the South Coast AQMD and subsequent policy-technology conclusions drawn from those efforts. He will also discuss the work conducted to advance hydrogen as a low carbon fuel and the current headwinds. The talk will conclude with looming state regulatory deadlines and the potential areas for related research.

Bio: Dr. Miyasato is the former Chief Technologist at the South Coast Air Quality Management District and former Chief Public Policy & Programs Officer at FirstElement Fuels. In both roles, Dr. Miyasato helped to advance technologies in support of cleaning the air and lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Dr. Miyasato also previously worked at UC Irvine, General Electric, Energy and Environmental Research, and Southern California Edison. He received his doctorate from UC Irvine in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on low NOx combustion.

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