Biweekly Digest Archive

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 plans to the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation. To recap, states must submit an EV Infrastructure Deployment Plan that [...]

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 EVs. Interest in the search term “Electric Vehicles” on Google reached a new high in March 2022, the final month of [...]

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 for public comment. Given that things are moving fast with this huge pot of funding, let’s dig into what we [...]

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 a useful snapshot of equity focused programs led by state and local governments. There is also a list of reports [...]

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 moves onto a new job in Colorado and so I wanted to squeeze all the insights I could from him [...]

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 have to get into the mining & refining directly at scale, unless costs improve. There is no shortage of the [...]

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 manufacturing jobs were announced in Q1. That means that more than one in five of all EV manufacturing jobs were [...]

Source: EV Hub   I had a story in my back pocket ready to go and then March sales data dropped last week and I couldn’t help myself. Let's start with the caveat that it is unhealthy to focus too much on a single month but luckily this month of data now completes [...]

The rollout of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) continues at a fervent pace. Each week there is an announcement from the Administration, sometimes multiple. Last week, the Administration announced water projects and also a grid program. This week let’s take a deep dive on one program to try and help clear up how the funding [...]

A map of state legislative policies enacted in 2022. Note: as Connecticut is still waiting on the Governor’s signature, the bill outlined below does not appear on this map. Source: State Policy Dashboard – Atlas EV Hub Much attention has been on the federal landscape with the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and [...]

In our next installment of Staff Picks, we sit down with Nicole Lepre. Nicole is a policy analyst at Atlas based out of Washington DC. As the mastermind behind utility data at Atlas, Nicole gets utilities. Favorite dashboard / feature on EV Hub? Nicole: Utility Filings Dashboard because it aggregates data on utility filings and this dataset doesn’t [...]

Source: CARB proposed rules The Advanced Clean Cars II proposed rules were released on April 12. Advanced Clean Cars brings together two key programs – the ZEV Program and the passenger vehicle emission standards. Given this is an EV crowd, let’s focus on the ZEV program. The proposed rules have California at 100 percent zero-emission vehicle [...]