Biweekly Digest Archive

State Policy Actions (including enacted, under consideration and failed) in 2022. Source: EV Hub.  This year, we have seen big legislative movements from states in favor of electric vehicles (EVs). Our recent Legislative Update tracks new policy developments from July and August and provides a comprehensive breakdown of state policy activity over the course of [...]

Spencer Burget and I published the third annual "Transportation Electrification in the Southeast" report on Thursday last week. Produced in partnership with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE), the report covers EV progress in six states – Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina and Tennessee. There are also one pagers for each of [...]

With the recent passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), we are seeing an unprecedented amount of federal dollars going towards electrifying transportation in the United States. The latest data story from Spencer Burget and Nicole Lepre of Atlas Public Policy aims to put the unprecedented [...]

Source: Automakers Dashboard   This story was updated on September 5, 2022, to account for recent developments and revised job estimates. The story was originally published in July 2022.  As automakers go on a hiring bonanza and we build out our Automakers Dashboard further to include more EV battery makers, as of September [...]

When we talk about EVs, we often lump two types of vehicles together – Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV). Both are plugged in but the former are powered solely by electricity and the latter are powered by electricity and gasoline. The batteries of PHEVs are much smaller – generally [...]

Source: EV Hub   We have just published our Q2 Quarterly Review (April, May and June 2022). The slides bring together key developments from the EV market. Here are three stories that caught our eye.   EV Sales on the Rise EVs in the U.S. had their best quarter yet. Below are some [...]

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 and the final passage, it doesn’t appear there were any edits to EV elements other than a specification of where [...]

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 around the country are beginning their transit electrification journeys. This research captures the early learnings and best practices from some [...]

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 a reconciliation bill and had text to boot. The bill, named the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, raises revenue through [...]

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 our NEVI dashboard. For this week's digest, we sat down with Sam Houston to get her take on a few [...]

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 [...]