Hosting Benefits

Below are some of the ways that hosting a National AFV Day Odyssey event benefits your program, group, or organization as well as the AFV efforts in your community.

Benefits to Your Program/Group/Organization

• boosts the impact of your local efforts by being part of a successful, established, and well-defined, national event

• offers an opportunity to showcase your program and increase its exposure to potential funding opportunities, clients, colleagues, local decision makers, and others

• shows an association with the National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium (NAFTC) and other related national programs and organizations such as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)

• increases positive attention for your program in your community

• presents an excellent networking opportunity

• enhances or establishes your organization’s reputation as a leader in the AFV industry

• serves as a platform to jumpstart a new AFV or advanced technology vehicle program

• provides national recognition through Odyssey marketing efforts and allows your organization’s name to be put before Congress by way of the Odyssey Executive Summary

• helps meet goals of ongoing advanced technology vehicle/clean air projects

Benefits to AFV Cause in Your Community

• reinvigorates dialogue about AFVs and related advanced technologies in your region

• increases local interest in and use of alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles

• provides an opportunity to build local alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicle partnerships and collaboration

• helps gain attention of local elected officials and decision makers

• means to influence local alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicle policies

• promotes local support for national energy initiatives and environmental objectives

Please join us in 2012 by hosting an Odyssey event in your area.

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