Weekly Digest Archive

Source: Automakers Dashboard    August sales data are in and it was another big month for EVs. Here are trends that caught our eye. 1. U.S. EV sales are up 38 percent year-over-year, and market share exceeds six percent for sixth straight month In August 2022, over 75,000 EVs were sold (75,671 to [...]

ADOT to host in-person public meeting Oct. 19 in Tucson to roll out plan for statewide network of electric vehicle charging stations

Image Source: Unsplash   Vehicle and building electrification are often viewed as two distinct pieces of the decarbonization puzzle.  However, they’re more intertwined than you might think. This past June, electric vehicles made up 8.4 percent of new car sales – a more than 400 percent increase from just two years ago. All [...]

This episode of EV Hub Live brings together Atlas founder Nick Nigro, Dr Shawn Wilson, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development and Kay Kelly, Chief, Office of Innovative Mobility, Colorado Department of Transportation to discuss the next steps for Colorado and Louisiana in implementing NEVI funding. Watch the show below or [...]

Tesla dominates the EV market. The company has sold 52 percent of all new EVs in 2022 (through the end of July 2022). Tesla’s size – it has sold more EVs than all other companies EV sales combined in 2022 - often overshadows other dynamics in the market. So when we remove Tesla from the [...]

The 2022 National E-Mobility Diversity Equity and Inclusion Conference is a hybrid event presented by EVNoire, national thought leader in E-Mobility, best practices, and E-Mobility diversity, equity, and inclusion. This conference facilitates conversation about strategies and best practices for communities hit worst and first by air pollution. 

Image source: California Air Resources Board Last week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that the state will take regulatory action to phase out the sale of new gasoline-fueled, light-duty vehicles by 2035, joining a growing cohort of states considering the same policy following the approval of California’s new Advanced Clean Cars II (ACC II) regulation. To [...]

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is holding public hearings for its proposed Advanced Clean Cars II rulemaking.

Authorized by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, EPA’s Clean School Bus Program provides $5 billion over five years to replace school buses with low- and zero-emission school buses. The second funding opportunity under this program will be the FY 2023 Clean School Bus Grants. EPA wants to hear from you on how to build its [...]

Two weeks ago, ABB announced an EV manufacturing facility in South Carolina. This facility will produce up to 10,000 chargers a year and support around 100 jobs. This followed a slew of other announcements of domestic manufacturing of EV chargers. Until recently, we had only tracked EV manufacturing and battery facilities, but we now [...]

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 [...]