Biweekly Digest Archive

Source: USPS Office of Inspector General   There is no doubt that 2022 was a big year for EVs. We witnessed the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act which provides billions of dollars in funding for electric vehicles, the beginnings of a nationwide charging network through National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program, several states [...]

Photo by Michael Marais on Unsplash  For the last digest of the year, I took some time to chat with my colleagues and reflect on the year. In this piece, we hear from Atlas policy analysts Nicole Lepre and Tom Taylor, senior policy analysts James Di Filippo and Rob Fitzgerald, and founder Nick Nigro. [...]

Image Source: Electric Truck & Bus Challenge Last month, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced the highly anticipated winners of the New York Clean Transportation Prizes, allocating a total of $85 million across ten different clean transportation projects in underserved communities across the state. The Governor touted the awards as the “most significant investment yet in [...]

Last week, my colleague, Noah Gabriel and I, released a report we had been working on for some time. The report, The EV Transition: Key Market and Supply Chain Enablers, was supported by the Alliance for Automotive Innovation. We note it in the report but want to re-iterate our thanks to Emily Burlinghaus from [...]

In the map, deep blue refers to states where the rule has been adopted and light blue refers to states where the rule is near adoption.   The Vermont legislature recently approved two very significant transportation electrification regulations - Advanced Clean Cars II (ACCII) and Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT). The Secretary of State [...]

Source: EV Hub   We have just published our Q3 Quarterly Review (for July, August, and September 2022). The slides bring together key developments from the EV market. Here are three stories that caught our eye.   EV Sales break record We once again see a record-breaking quarter for EV sales. Below are numbers that [...]

Source: EV Hub   Curious about how utilities are investing in transportation electrification programs? We’ve got you covered. At Atlas EV Hub, our Electric Utility Filings dashboard tracks the status of various regulatory commission filings by investor-owned utilities (IOU) from their initial proposal to the final decision. Filings are distinguished by charging programs [...]

Image Source: U.S. Access Board   As National Disability Employment Awareness Month draws to a close, we wanted to highlight a crucial but often overlooked aspect of transportation electrification: the accessibility of EV charging stations. According to the CDC, one out of every four Americans lives with some form of disability including 14 [...]

Source: EV Hub   Last week, Atlas founder Nick Nigro sat down with Dr. Shawn Wilson, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) and Kay Kelly, Chief, Office of Innovative Mobility, Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) to discuss the next steps for Colorado and Louisiana in implementing National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) [...]

Source: Automakers Dashboard    August sales data are in and it was another big month for EVs. Here are trends that caught our eye. 1. U.S. EV sales are up 38 percent year-over-year, and market share exceeds six percent for sixth straight month In August 2022, over 75,000 EVs were sold (75,671 to [...]

Image Source: Unsplash   Vehicle and building electrification are often viewed as two distinct pieces of the decarbonization puzzle.  However, they’re more intertwined than you might think. This past June, electric vehicles made up 8.4 percent of new car sales – a more than 400 percent increase from just two years ago. All [...]

Tesla dominates the EV market. The company has sold 52 percent of all new EVs in 2022 (through the end of July 2022). Tesla’s size – it has sold more EVs than all other companies EV sales combined in 2022 - often overshadows other dynamics in the market. So when we remove Tesla from the [...]