Weekly Digest Archive

Source: EV Hub   June once again proves to be a hot month for electric vehicle (EV) sales. June 2023 recorded the highest-ever EV sales for any single month; the 127,000 EVs sold represented a 10 percent light-duty EV market share, and a 41 percent increase from June 2022 (approximately 90,000 EV sales). [...]

  Average battery electric vehicle fees by state (2023) This digest was written by Nate Graham, Policy Intern at Atlas Public Policy.  Thirty-four states have now passed additional annual registration fees for electric vehicles, largely to compensate for the gas taxes they do not pay. True, motor-fuel taxes have failed to keep up with [...]

Several of us here at Atlas couldn’t help but notice the all-electric Chevy Blazer in Greta Gerwig’s hit movie Barbie, and apparently, we were not the only ones. General Motors (GM) got a healthy amount of screentime (approximately 10 minutes total) in a film that is the highest grossing by any female director in [...]

Source: Shutterstock   With Tesla being the notable exception, automakers have trailed behind charging providers, utilities, and government when it comes to investing in electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. Now, seven large automakers are taking the EV charging market into their own hands. Last week, these seven global automakers announced an upcoming joint [...]

Source: EV Hub   In the map above, the darker-shaded states represent more state policy activity. States are beginning to wrap up their legislative sessions, and we’ve seen some unique EV policy advancements for better or for worse.  As a reminder, our State Policy Dashboard tracks policy initiatives moving through state legislatures. Here [...]

Source: EV Hub   We just got our hands on electric vehicle (EV) sales data from May 2023, which means another set of stories. During May, just over 118,000 light-duty EVs were sold representing 8.9 percent of the new light-duty sales market. May’s EV sales were not only the most in any month [...]

Today, we released a first-of-its-kind report examining state approaches in implementing Justice40 through the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program. In partnership with Evergreen Collaborative, EVHybridNoire and GreenLatinos, my colleague Tom Taylor and I examined racial and economic equity during the first round of NEVI through two different lenses: a public engagement analysis and [...]

Source: EV Hub   Last week was a big week for clean bus enthusiasts like me. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) awarded $1.7 billion of funding from the Buses and Bus Facilities and Low- and No-Emission (Low-No) Vehicle programs bolstered by record funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs [...]

Source: Ford Last week, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) announced a conditional commitment for a $9.2 billion loan to BlueOval SK (BOSK) for the production of EV batteries. If finalized, the commitment would represent LPO’s single largest loan to date for domestic EV battery manufacturing. In particular, the conditional commitment [...]

Source: Unsplash   On Thursday, June 8th, CEO Mary Barra announced that General Motors (GM) is joining Ford to adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) in new EV models. Beginning in 2024, GM EV drivers will have full access to Tesla’s network of more than 12,000 Superchargers, and in 2025, NACS will [...]

Source: EV Hub   Funding through the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program is taking shape, and throughout this year, we’ve been keeping a close eye on how states are preparing to put chargers in the ground. But first, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recently released new information regarding the next year of [...]

Source: Unsplash   Fresh off the press, Toyota recently announced new developments to accelerate the company’s renewed vehicle electrification efforts. First, the company announced last week that it will be investing $2.1 billion in its North Carolina battery manufacturing plant, raising Toyota’s total EV investment in North Carolina to nearly $6 billion. Slated [...]