Weekly Digest Archive

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 [...]

Source: EV Hub   We just published our Q1 Quarterly Review (covering January, February, and March 2023). The slides bring together key developments from the EV market and policy space. As a reminder, you can view the slide decks for each quarterly review here. Here are three stories from Q1. Q1 2023 EV [...]

In the map above, the darker-shaded states represent a higher number of proposed laws.  For all the policy wonks and EV advocates, it’s time for another legislative update. Since our last update in March, we’ve captured a ton of new EV-related bills moving through State legislatures. Here are a few trends that caught [...]

Source: EV Hub   Last week, Rhode Island’s Governor Dan McKee announced the state will be moving forward with phasing out the sale of new gas-powered light-duty cars and trucks by 2035 – a pivotal move to eliminate tailpipe emissions and commit to cleaner transportation on the roads. Rhode Island joins the growing [...]

Source: EV Hub   It’s been a minute since we talked about battery investments in detail in a digest, and with the recent General Motors (GM) and Samsung SDI joint venture announcement, we’re due for a 2023 round up. In case you missed it in last week’s piece, GM and Samsung SDI announced [...]

Source: EV Hub   In a contentious move, General Motors (GM) recently announced that the company will axe production of its popular Chevrolet Bolt EV and EUV models after this year. While briefing investors on quarterly earnings last Tuesday, CEO Mary Barra noted that the automaker will retool its Bolt-producing Michigan plant to [...]

Source: EV Hub   We just received February 2023 electric vehicle (EV) sales data, and new trends for 2023 are beginning to emerge. In February 2023, nearly 100,000 light-duty EVs were sold, representing a 9 percent market share for new, light duty EV sales – a 54 percent increase from February 2022. Continue [...]

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the tightest ever domestic tailpipe emissions standards for light, medium, and heavy-duty vehicles—building upon the federal government’s significant investments to guarantee a carbon-neutral and clean transportation future. If these standards take effect as written, the EPA projects that through 2055, approximately 10 billion tons of carbon [...]

Image source: WRI  Earlier last month, an Indiana EV equity alliance convened to discuss how communities can hold the government accountable to the Justice 40 Initiative. According to Denise Abdul-Rahman of the Indiana NAACP, “this funding is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for equity and to improve Black lives.” It is now just over two years since the [...]

Source: Shutterstock   Last week, the U.S. Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced its proposed guidance for the Clean Vehicle Credit, or Section 30D, a long-awaited move for the EV industry since the enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) last August. My colleague Tom Taylor put out a useful summary [...]

Source: EV Hub State legislatures have been busy this session, and electric vehicles (EVs) are on the agenda all over the country. Earlier this year, we provided a legislative rundown on introduced EV legislation. Here are some policy developments we have tracked since our last update. First and foremost, two more states have announced [...]

Source: ShutterStock   It is a pivotal time for electric vehicle charging in the United States. Just last week, the Federal Highway Administration announced the much-anticipated details of the $2.5 billion Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program (CFI Program) to be allocated over five years. This major development sets the stage for building out [...]