Biweekly Digest Archive

Source: Detroit Free Press After months of speculation, GM and Nikola announced an agreement to roll back their planned partnership on November 30th. This marks the next step of a story which began on September 8th when news broke that GM intended to take an 11 percent stake in the startup and manufacture the Nikola Badger ZEV [...]

Source: EV Hub The U.S. EV market rebounded in the third quarter with total quarterly sales only two percent below the numbers from 2019. Monthly sales were up 20 percent in September compared to 2019, the first month in 2020 where there was year-over-year growth. Adding in the third quarter sales figures reduces the year-to-date [...]

Source: JTC Leading EV markets like Washington continue to give credence to the predictions from Cox Automotive that the pandemic will only be a speed bump in the move to widespread transportation electrification. After falling by 23 percent in the first half of 2020, Washington EV sales have rebounded and were down only 0.5 percent in [...]

Source: EV Hub A Special One-On-One Conversation about the 2020 U.S. Election with Dan Sperling of the University of California, Davis  In our fourth installment of EV Hub Live, our founder Nick Nigro will be joined by Dan Sperling of the University of California at Davis to discuss what’s next for federal action, state [...]

Source: EV Hub he State EV Registration Data Dashboard now has local (ZIP code- or county-level) EV registration data for the top five EV markets in the United States. We recently added California, the nation’s largest EV market, bringing the total number of states for which we have local EV registration data to 15, representing [...]

Source: GM The Southeast EV manufacturing sector continues to heat up with General Motors announcing plans to bring production of the upcoming Cadillac Lyriq and $2 billion in facility upgrades to their Spring Hill facility in Tennessee. This is the latest in the automaker’s charge to invest $20 billion in EV manufacturing and bring more than 20 vehicles to market in the United [...]

Source: Atlas Public Policy The rise in passenger EV adoption and transportation electrification more broadly throughout the United States since 2018 has generated different outcomes around the country. While states on the West Coast and in the Northeast lead in terms of EV deployment per person, the Southeast has emerged as a hotbed for [...]

Source: EV Hub Across the United States, approved utility investment in transportation electrification since 2012 now totals more than $2.6 billion. So far in 2020, 95 percent of the $1.2 billion approved fell in the third quarter with two major approvals in New York and California in July and August. For the first [...]

Source: Proterra California continues to advance clean air legislation and regulations amid an ongoing season of particularly devastating wildfires. On September 30, Governor Gavin Newsom singed Assembly Bill 841 into law requiring utilities to cover the costs of grid upgrades and infrastructure on the utility side of the meter necessary to support EV charging deployment. This significantly reduces [...]

Source: Bay Area News Network   COVID-19 has done little to dampen major policy commitments, investment announcements, and technology advances throughout the EV sector. California made history on September 23rd when Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order setting the state on course to reach 100 percent ZEV passenger vehicle sales by 2035. The [...]

Source: EV Hub   We are happy to launch our dashboard redesign on the EV Hub with the just released Automakers Dashboard. With the support of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), this dashboard integrates new research with existing EV Hub data you are used to seeing in the National EV Sales and State [...]

Source: CNBC EV startups continue to vie for attention as they roll out announcement after announcement regarding production and funding updates. Nikola started last week with a bang when they unveiled a $2 billion partnership with GM. As a part of the deal, GM takes an 11 percent stake in the company and will [...]