Weekly Digest Archive

The tumultuous start to 2024 for the EV market has been a hot topic in recent news coverage. Following record highs in December 2023, the EV market has been off to a slow start through the first two months of 2024. January saw just over 119,000 light-duty EVs sold which was down 20 percent [...]

Source: Shutterstock    As the electric vehicle (EV) market continues to reach all-time highs, the technology is increasingly becoming an important ballot issue, both on the state and federal level. So far in 2024, we have seen action in many state legislatures on issues related to EVs. Now that most state legislative sessions [...]

On March 20, members of Atlas’ Clean Economy Tracker team traveled to Bowie, Maryland, to visit Blink Charging Co.’s manufacturing facility. An international manufacturer and provider of EV charging equipment and services, the Bowie manufacturing facility is Blink’s first in the U.S. Blink began work at the facility with its acquisition of SemaConnect Inc. [...]

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is continuing its historic momentum enforcing vehicle pollution standards in the United States, this time focusing on commercial trucks and buses. On Friday morning, the EPA published its final ‘Phase 3’ standards to regulate the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of new on-road commercial vehicles sold in the U.S. Beginning [...]

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the final standards to regulate the emissions of new light- and medium-duty vehicles sold in the United States, a move that aims to drastically minimize the impact of air pollution resulting from motor vehicles on public health and the climate. The final rule enforces the strongest-ever [...]

The following digest was written by Atlas Policy Analyst Daniel Wilkins. Last week, we published a new analysis comparing the total cost of ownership (TCO) between five of the most popular gasoline powered models in the United States and an electric equivalent. Our analysis found that in every case, EVs today can deliver savings [...]

Source: Q4 Quarterly Review Last week, we published our Q4 Quarterly Review, which summarizes key electric vehicle (EV) policy and market developments in October, November, and December of 2023. As a reminder, we publish slide decks summarizing developments for each quarter here. Below are the big takeaways from Q4 2023. First, nearly 384,000 light-duty [...]

Source: Clean Economy Tracker   Investments in the U.S. domestic clean energy economy have soared to unprecedented levels, thanks in part to two landmark climate laws: the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). A new tool by Atlas Public Policy and Utah State University brings together announced [...]

2023 was a stellar year for the electric vehicle (EV) market, and data from December affirmed the positive direction of where the EV market is headed. Nearly 12 percent of new light-duty vehicles sold in the United States in December 2023 were EVs, a market record.  In total, the month saw over 148,000 light-duty [...]

This digest was written by Policy Analyst Daniel Wilkins. In collaboration with the Electrification Coalition, Atlas is thrilled to introduce a new dashboard dedicated to advancing the understating of freight vehicle electrification in the United States. The Electric Freight Dashboard brings together the many facets of freight electrification from the availability of funding to [...]

Last month, the Federal Highway Administration (FWHA) announced the grant recipients for the first round of the Electric Vehicle (EV) Charger Reliability and Accessibility Accelerator Grant Program. To give a refresher, funds for the EV Charger Reliability and Accessibility Accelerator come from the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program. While the majority of NEVI [...]

Source: EV Hub   Last week, the Powering America’s Commercial Transportation (PACT) coalition launched in Washington D.C., serving as a fresh unified voice for zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty (MDHD) infrastructure in the United States. Established by industry leaders, Daimler Truck North America, Navistar, Inc., and Volvo Group North America, PACT aims to bring [...]