Weekly Digest Archive

Source: EV Hub   Last year was a landmark year for transportation electrification in the United States, and sales data from December 2022 sealed the deal with a record-breaking month. Here are some insights from the data, sourced from the Automakers Dashboard. First and foremost, we capped off the year with the most EVs [...]

Last week, my colleague Zachary Strauss and I released a report on barriers and opportunities to medium- and heavy-duty (MHDV) fleet electrification in New York and New Jersey. The report drew from the findings from a workshop we held on Monday, October 17, 2022, hosted in tandem with Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). This workshop [...]

Source: Shutterstock   Last week, the Biden administration promoted a set of major EV announcements from the Department of Transportation (DOT) and Department of Energy (DOE), including the final minimum standards for NEVI-funded chargers and public and private sector action to accelerate the buildout of an EV charging network nationwide. This latest set [...]

Source: EV Hub   As we charge into 2023, we are now seeing National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program funding starting to roll out of the door. With our NEVI Dashboard, we have been keeping a close eye on requests state agencies have been releasing to solicit charging projects and offer funding awards [...]

Photo by Andrea Izzotti on Shutterstock   Many State legislatures have reconvened for the 2023 legislative session. Here are some legislative trends we have seen in the past month. Let’s start with the not so good news. A few states have kicked off their legislative sessions by introducing anti-EV measures, including Wyoming and [...]

Source: EV Hub   Last week, November 2022 sales data came in and so did some new automaker developments. EV sales had its third highest month in November, with nearly 86,000 EV sales and an 8.2 percent light-duty market share. Of course, Tesla accounted for the highest share of those sales with approximately [...]

Source: EV Hub   Last week, Atlas Public Policy analysts Spencer Burget, Noah Gabriel, and Nicole Lepre partnered with the Natural Resources Defense Council to publish a new data story that details the announced electric vehicle (EV) and battery manufacturing investments in the United States, Asia, Europe, and the rest of the world. [...]

Source: EV Hub   The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) (also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law) unlocked billions in funding for EV-related projects. More than a year on from the signing of the Act, we are starting to see this funding roll out the door. At EV Hub, we are keeping [...]

Source: RyKing Uploads on Unsplash   Last week, the Consumer Technology Association hosted its annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. This trade show is touted as the “most influential tech event in the world” and showcases new emerging and breakthrough technologies across several product categories, including electric vehicle technology. This year, prominent automakers [...]

Source: USPS Office of Inspector General   There is no doubt that 2022 was a big year for EVs. We witnessed the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act which provides billions of dollars in funding for electric vehicles, the beginnings of a nationwide charging network through National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program, several states [...]

Photo by Michael Marais on Unsplash  For the last digest of the year, I took some time to chat with my colleagues and reflect on the year. In this piece, we hear from Atlas policy analysts Nicole Lepre and Tom Taylor, senior policy analysts James Di Filippo and Rob Fitzgerald, and founder Nick Nigro. [...]

Image Source: Electric Truck & Bus Challenge Last month, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced the highly anticipated winners of the New York Clean Transportation Prizes, allocating a total of $85 million across ten different clean transportation projects in underserved communities across the state. The Governor touted the awards as the “most significant investment yet in [...]