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IRA to Unlock Billions in EV Funding
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) passed in the House on Friday last week. It marks an enormous moment for the climate movement and the largest investment in climate action ever. Between the initial draft [...]
NEW: Six Lessons Learned in Electrifying Transit Buses
Source: EV Hub Federal and state funding for battery electric buses is on the rise. As funding and policy support ramps up for battery electric buses, as shown in Figure 13, agencies [...]
EVs and the IRA
Image Source: Shutterstock by Orhan Cam. It was an announcement only the psychics of America could’ve seen coming. On Wednesday evening, Senator Manchin and Senator Schumer announced that they had reached a deal on [...]
Making Sense of NEVI Plans: A Conversation with Sam Houston
Source: Technical Assistance · Joint Office of Energy and Transportation Before we begin, five more states have released their draft NEVI plan, including Maryland, Oregon, Indiana, Nebraska, and Rhode Island. View those plans on [...]
Two Weeks Notice
Image source: The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program Guidance The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program is moving quickly. We are now just two weeks out from the due date for state [...]
Working 9 to 5
Source: Automakers Dashboard As automakers go on a hiring bonanza and we build out our Automakers Dashboard further to include more EV battery makers, as of July 7, 2022, there are more [...]
Going Viral
Data on popularity of Google searches for “electric vehicles” over the past five years. Source: Electric vehicles - Explore - Google Trends As the EV market continues to soar, so too does public interest in [...]
NEVI Can Say Goodbye
Figure 1. Texas Statewide Planning Map from Texas Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Plan We have seen our first few NEVI plans. On Friday, Washington state released their draft plan. California, Maine, Texas and Wyoming have all also released draft NEVI plans out [...]
Equity and EVs: A List in Progress
Source: Shutterstock After a callout to the EVGridX network, we pulled together this list of programs for light duty vehicles that take equity into account. This list is not exhaustive but provides [...]
Staff picks with Josh
In our next installment of Staff Picks, we sit down with Josh Rosenberg. Josh is a data analyst at Atlas based out of Washington DC. This is Josh’s last week with Atlas before he [...]
All Eyes on Lithium!
Google search popularity for “lithium mining” since 2004. Source: Google Trends There is a growing chorus of voices talking about lithium. Elon Musk tweeted in April, “Price of lithium has gone to insane levels! Tesla might actually [...]
3 Stories from Q1
Source: Automakers Dashboard - Atlas EV Hub We put out the Q1 slides today which summarize electric vehicle developments in Q1 2022. Here are three stories worth noting. You got the jobs! More than 22,000 EV [...]