Biweekly Digest Archive

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 [...]

Source: Wikicommons.   Governor Kathy Hochul, in her State of the State address on Wednesday last week dropped some big numbers. The Governor of New York announced a number of ambitious targets, including what would functionally be a statewide gas ban for new buildings by 2027. Importantly, the Governor also announced a target for electric [...]

Source: EV Hub   2021 was a big year. Here are some of the biggest moments. 1. President Biden and major automakers set a target of 50 percent EV sales by 2030. Here’s our write up. 2. Here come the electric trucks. Four states have now adopted the Advanced Clean Truck (ACT) rule [...]

Source: EV Hub   The Volkswagen (VW) Settlement has been one of the most important sources of funding for transportation electrification initiatives over the past few years. On the State Policy Dashboard, we have tracked $3.3 billion in public funding for transportation electrification and the VW Settlement accounts for nearly a quarter of it. [...]

Source: National Electric Highway Coalition.   Electric utility companies last week announced the formation of the National Electric Highway Coalition (NEHC). This Coalition, as seen in the map above, combines the existing Electric Highway Coalition and the Midwest Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Collaboration and adds new members. The NEHC now spans much of the country and [...]

Source: EV Hub   Q3 was mammoth quarter for utility filings for EV programs. Investor-owned utilities proposed programs worth more than $781 million – more than twice what was proposed in Q1 and Q2 combined. So what happens once a utility proposes a program? A state’s Public Utility Commission considers the program, hears [...]

Source: EV Hub   We have just published our Quarterly Review of the EV Market for the third quarter (July through September of 2021). The slides cover a lot of ground and so I wanted to tell three stories buried in the numbers. But before I do, we continue to build out the slide deck to provide [...]

Source: Atlas Public Policy.    Atlas just released a study on the medium and heavy duty electric vehicle charging needed to get to full electrification. Electric trucks really matter: Almost 30 percent of ground transportation greenhouse gas emissions come from medium- and heavy-duty (MDHD) trucks, and they spew harmful air pollutants – often into low-income [...]

Everyone wants to talk about the cost of electric vehicles. The cost conversation most often starts with the price tag, but it is important that it doesn’t end there. New reporting from Jennifer Hiller and Andrew Mollica in the Wall Street Journal breaks down the costs of fueling an EV in 15 cities across [...]