Biweekly Digest Archive

Source: Staff – Atlas Public Policy.   One of my first jobs was at Blockbuster video where we had a staff picks shelf (my only pick was Million Dollar Baby). Today, we explore the Atlas staff pick shelf with Spencer Burget. Spencer is a policy analyst at Atlas based out of San Francisco, California. [...]

Source: Demand for critical raw materials in EVs – Analysis - IEA   Let’s talk EV supply chains and try to keep it a little breezy. As I only have so many words in this digest, consider this an appetizer with links to satiate your appetite.  The supply chain in EVs refers broadly to [...]

Source: Nissan Leaf 012 - Electric vehicle battery - Wikipedia   There have been several exciting moves recently to use EV batteries to power more than just the vehicle. This is called bi-directional power flow since the power flows not only into the battery to power the car but also out of the battery [...]

Source: WikiCommons   There were a bunch of big developments last week for big EVs. The White House put out a summary of some of the actions here – but I want to focus on two of them. The first was the announcement of funding for low or zero-emission transit buses. The funding available in 2022 – appropriated through [...]

Source: War in Ukraine – Alliance For Securing Democracy (gmfus.org)   This week, we take a pause from EV content to talk about Ukraine. The Russian invasion has led to enormous death and destruction in Ukraine. With ongoing media coverage, global attention, and criticism from the U.S. President in his State of the Union [...]

Source: EV Hub   We just put out our quarterly slides, summarizing developments in Q4 2021. Here are three stories from Q4 2021 that caught our eye. Highest selling quarter and highest selling month of all time The fourth quarter of 2021 saw more EVs sold than ever before. December capped off a [...]

Source: EV Hub   Love the Olympics but bored of all that snow and ice? I’ve got the race for you. I present: the 2021 EV state race. The criteria are these – states race for the highest proportion of EV sales relative to all light duty sales in 2021. In 2021, it [...]

Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Justice40 Map Tool released last week. Source: Electric Vehicle Charging Equity Considerations   There has been a lot of chatter recently about Justice40 (also J40) and its potential impacts on federal programs. So, this week let’s take a closer look at Justice40 and what it might mean for historic climate [...]

The analysis is a model-to-model total cost of ownership comparison between gasoline vehicles and electric vehicles. In other words, when someone is looking to buy a vehicle in 2022, how do EVs fare against some of the most popular gasoline vehicles in the country over an 8-year timeframe with all costs included?

Map of the mainland United States. The green denotes “corridor ready”, and the orange denotes “corridor pending”. Purple dots denote fast charging. Source: FHWA.   There is $7.5 billion available for EV public charging in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) – $5 billion for the National Electric Vehicle Formula Program and $2.5 [...]

This data includes public and workplace charging by year. Source: EV Charging Deployment on EV Hub. The National EV Charging Summit was held last week. The Summit drew attention to the need for public charging across the country. Nick Nigro, founder of Atlas, hosted a panel on charging needs. He showed a clever data animation on the short history [...]

Source: EV Hub   It is a good time to be moving into clean energy. The Department of Energy announced last week that there would be 1,000 job openings to join the Clean Energy Corps. With large investments pouring into transportation electrification not just from the federal government but also from state governments (Governor Newsom [...]