Biweekly Digest Archive

Image Source: Shutterstock Q3 2025 marked another growth period for the U.S. electric vehicle market. Across sales, infrastructure, and domestic manufacturing, the quarter showed continued momentum as car buyers rushed to capitalize on federal tax credits that sunset at the end of September. As we begin to analyze the larger trends from Q3 for [...]

Image Source: Shutterstock Last month, my colleague Rachel Reolfi published an issue brief that thoroughly examined the availability of affordable new vehicles in the United States over the past decade. The study found that high sticker prices are not exclusive to electric vehicles (EVs). Instead, prices have been increasing across all types of powertrains. [...]

Two weeks ago, hundreds of members of the transportation electrification community gathered in Detroit for this year’s Forth Roadmap Conference. Several members of our team at Atlas Public Policy were there and fanned out across plenaries, workshops, and hallway huddles to present some of our latest research and take the pulse of the EV [...]

  On July 29th, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced plans to repeal the Endangerment Finding—the determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. That finding is the legal backbone for a range of climate policies, including the limits EPA sets on pollution from vehicles, commonly known as tailpipe standards. New modeling analysis [...]

Source: EV Market Dashboard July 2025 electric vehicle (EV) sales data is now live on our EV Market Dashboard. With federal tax credits for new and used EVs set to expire on September 30, attention is now on how the market responds in the weeks leading up to the deadline and in the months that follow. Below [...]

Source: Transportation Electrification in the Southeast Earlier this month, my colleague Matthew Vining and I published our sixth annual Transportation Electrification in the Southeast report, produced in partnership with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE).   At a critical moment in the electric vehicle (EV) market politically, this year’s report assesses how states in the Southeast – Alabama, [...]

Last week, the U.S. Climate Alliance announced that Wisconsin and Hawaii have joined the Affordable Clean Cars Coalition, bringing the total number of participating states to 13. So, what exactly is this coalition? Launched in May 2025, the Affordable Clean Cars Coalition is a multi-state initiative led by the U.S. Climate Alliance. Its goal is [...]

In February, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) paused new NEVI obligations and rescinded prior annual plan approvals pending revised guidance. This move froze approximately $2.74 billion in available, unobligated funds for Fiscal Years 2022-2025 while new guidance was drafted. Some states challenged the freeze and, in June, a federal court ordered FHWA to resume obligations for 14 plaintiff states, leaving [...]

Two weeks ago, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced plans to repeal the Endangerment Finding – the determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. That finding is the legal backbone for numerous climate regulation policies in the United States, including how EPA sets limits on pollution from vehicles.   EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said [...]

Electric vehicles (EVs) have faced a series of legislative roadblocks at the federal level this year. Notably, the recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill rolls back several incentives to purchase and manufacture EVs, and it’s likely that these measures could significantly hinder EV uptake in the U.S. But how are states moving on EVs? In light [...]

Earlier this month, Atlas founder Nick Nigro and I released an updated look at what it costs to own today’s best-selling cars and trucks. In a new fact sheet, we compared the total cost of ownership (TCO) for five of the most popular gasoline vehicles sold in the United States in 2024 and their closest [...]

Image Source: Shutterstock  As reconciliation bill negotiations heat up in Congress, the Senate today kicked off “vote-a-rama” on the “Big, Beautiful, Bill.” Over the weekend, the Senate narrowly passed the bill during a procedural vote, moving the bill one step closer to final passage. The latest version released on Saturday includes key clean energy tax changes, [...]