Biweekly Digest Archive

Source: U.S. Passenger Vehicle Electrification Infrastructure Assessment   I was talking to a friend recently. They were interested in buying an electric vehicle but were concerned at the prospect of getting stuck somewhere and not being able to charge. The challenge of providing adequate public charging is enormous. How enormous? $39 billion by [...]

Source: EV Hub   Tesla is headed to Austin, Texas. We touched on reasons for the move in the Digest last week. There is, as always, a catch. Texas is one of 17 states where automakers cannot sell directly to consumers. Reporting by the New York Times describes the experience of buying a Tesla in the [...]

Source: EV Hub   Over the past few weeks, automakers have yet again upped their commitment to electric vehicles. Last week, General Motors (GM) announced that it is building a new battery plant in the US. The facility is an addition to the Warren Tech Center in southeast Michigan and is slated to [...]

This figure plots percent of target installations against the percent of program term complete. Source: EV Hub. I know that some weeks it is hard to keep up with developments and so here is a summary of two new pieces of analysis from Atlas. The first piece of analysis was led by Nicole Lepre and looked at how [...]

New sales data are in. July 2021 was the second highest month on record behind a bumper month in June. More than 59,000 electric vehicles were sold across the country. July 2021 nearly doubled the previous high for July. Tesla captured 49 percent of the EV market share with sales of the Model 3 [...]

Source: Wikicommons As of now, the Build Back Better Act, or the Budget Reconciliation Bill, remains a collection of committee markups. Our understanding is that these documents will be pulled together into a single Budget Reconciliation Bill and that there will continue to be debate and amendments until a vote that may come at [...]

Source: TRAA Vehicle Identification Guide.   On Thursday September 8, 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation A.4302/S.2758. The legislation sets a statutory goal for all new light-duty vehicles sold in the Empire State to be zero-emissions by 2035 and all new medium- and heavy-duty vehicles by 2045. At the same time, the Governor directed [...]

Source: Wikipedia.    As we face down the prospect of a historical investment in transportation electrification in the INVEST in America bill, let’s take a moment to put this funding in some context. Turn back the clock to 2009. In the face of the Global Financial Crisis, the Obama Administration passed the American Recovery [...]

Source: EV Hub   The past few weeks, we have been working hard on a report with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) about transportation electrification in the Southeast (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee). How have things changed since our 2020 Report? You can find out more when the 2021 report [...]

Source: EV Hub   Ok the numbers are in for Q2 (April, May, June). There’s a lot of ground to cover, so let’s dive in.   Sales are up in a big way: June sales data just dropped, and they were a whopper. Over 66,000 electric vehicles sold in June – that’s over [...]

Source: EV Hub A quick quiz: Name one state that doesn’t charge an EV fee. California you say? Wrong. There are 22 states that do not charge any fees currently, but the EV capital of the United States is not one of them. California charges an annual fee of $100 for EVs (technically, [...]

The Future is Electric - and we saw a glimpse of it last week.