Biweekly Digest Archive

Image Source: Atlas EV Hub December 2025 sales data is now live on our EV Market Dashboard, meaning we now have a complete picture of 2025 EV sales. With the federal purchase tax credit no longer available as of the late-September sunset, the final quarter of 2025 offers one of the clearest “stress tests” [...]

Image Source: Atlas EV Hub This week, EV Hub and the Electrification Coalition are launching a refreshed and expanded version of the Electric Freight Dashboard. This revamp integrates the National Zero Emission Freight (ZEF) Corridor Strategy with real-world charging data including locations, detailed freight hub information, and state policy context. This update brings key [...]

On January 9th, 2026, Stellantis confirmed it will stop selling traditional plug-in hybrid versions of the Jeep Wrangler and Grand Cherokee (4xe) and the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid in North America for the 2026 model year. Stellantis framed the move as a response to shifting customer demand and a pivot toward other electrified powertrains. The [...]

As we wrap up 2025, we reflect on another successful year of EV Hub and another pivotal year for electric vehicle (EV) policy and the EV market. For our final digest of 2025, I checked in with some of my Atlas colleagues to reflect on the year’s surprises, proudest achievements, and what’s on their [...]

Image Source: Clean Economy Tracker Clean energy deployment in the United States continues to accelerate at a historic pace. According to Atlas’s Clean Economy Tracker, which includes Q4 pipeline projects and a broad set of renewable technologies, the full-year total will reach 64 GW of new generation being added to the grid, with clean [...]

Image Source: Shutterstock Q3 2025 marked another growth period for the U.S. electric vehicle market. Across sales, infrastructure, and domestic manufacturing, the quarter showed continued momentum as car buyers rushed to capitalize on federal tax credits that sunset at the end of September. As we begin to analyze the larger trends from Q3 for [...]

Image Source: Shutterstock Last month, my colleague Rachel Reolfi published an issue brief that thoroughly examined the availability of affordable new vehicles in the United States over the past decade. The study found that high sticker prices are not exclusive to electric vehicles (EVs). Instead, prices have been increasing across all types of powertrains. [...]

Two weeks ago, hundreds of members of the transportation electrification community gathered in Detroit for this year’s Forth Roadmap Conference. Several members of our team at Atlas Public Policy were there and fanned out across plenaries, workshops, and hallway huddles to present some of our latest research and take the pulse of the EV [...]

  On July 29th, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced plans to repeal the Endangerment Finding—the determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. That finding is the legal backbone for a range of climate policies, including the limits EPA sets on pollution from vehicles, commonly known as tailpipe standards. New modeling analysis [...]

Source: EV Market Dashboard July 2025 electric vehicle (EV) sales data is now live on our EV Market Dashboard. With federal tax credits for new and used EVs set to expire on September 30, attention is now on how the market responds in the weeks leading up to the deadline and in the months that follow. Below [...]

Source: Transportation Electrification in the Southeast Earlier this month, my colleague Matthew Vining and I published our sixth annual Transportation Electrification in the Southeast report, produced in partnership with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE).   At a critical moment in the electric vehicle (EV) market politically, this year’s report assesses how states in the Southeast – Alabama, [...]

Last week, the U.S. Climate Alliance announced that Wisconsin and Hawaii have joined the Affordable Clean Cars Coalition, bringing the total number of participating states to 13. So, what exactly is this coalition? Launched in May 2025, the Affordable Clean Cars Coalition is a multi-state initiative led by the U.S. Climate Alliance. Its goal is [...]