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Gateway to GLOBAL MOBILITY Success

The CMC works together with start-ups and industry leaders to drive the pace of discovery and support innovation in future mobility.

WHO WE ARE

The CMC provides future mobility innovators and industry incumbents with access to programs and resources that accelerate the pace of commercialization in California and worldwide. Areas of focus include smart and shared mobility solutions, fueling and charging infrastructure and automated, connected and electric vehicles for on and off-highway use. The CMC's ecosystem is comprised of clients, members, and preferred service providers (PSPs).

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INDUSTRY COLLABORATIVE

The IC is an ecosystem of organizations and institutions that are involved with or impacted by the global transition to more intelligent, sustainable and equitable future mobility solutions. By fostering opportunities to collaborate across industries on meaningful project deployments and policy initiatives, the IC provides a new form of business engagement activity between innovators and those entities that desire to take innovation to the marketplace.

RAMP-UP

FACTORY

The RUF serves to reduce friction in the innovation cycle by providing a cost-effective way to scale hard tech clean mobility products from first prototype to small-scale production.

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The RUF also provides a location for hands-on experiential learning for WFD programs, and works with universities and local community colleges as a space for student projects and applied research in clean mobility prototyping and manufacturing, and provides a flexible space, equipment and labor usage on per hour/day/part pricing to meet customer needs.

WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

The CMC’s Career Pathways program supports the clean mobility industry with a tailored approach of creating a labor pool of skilled workers to ensure that companies can hire the talent they need to help them grow. The CMC’s Career Pathways program establishes regional supply chains for technical labor, provides start-ups with on demand access to student-interns and skilled labor on a project basis, and ensures priority communities have access to training and employment opportunities.

CLIENTS

CMC Clients are future mobility start-ups that recognize the global importance of commercializing products in the California market, and the value of working with corporate members and service providers to reduce the time and cost to commercial success.

Working Together on Project

Interested in learning more about the CMC? Click below for access to our download & resource center to find downloadable PDFs with information about the benefits of being a CMC client or member, a general overview and maps to find our offices.

If you have questions about who we are or what we do, click below to view a list of frequently asked questions. Please feel free to contact us using the form at the bottom of any page if you were unable to find an answer to your question.

RESOURCES

Need FUNDING?
We can connect you with our PSPs.

Don’t let a lack of funding stop your product or service from reaching the market. Explore grants and other capital sources available to your growing business.

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