Weekly Digest Archive

Image Source: Hosting Capacity Maps for EV Charging Last week, Atlas published a new report on how electric vehicle (EV) charging developers are using hosting capacity maps and how utilities can make them as useful as possible. Supported by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the analysis draws on a series of interviews we conducted with EV [...]

The image above depicts EV manufacturing facilities, distinguished by their production focus, that have received federal funding through the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office. Source: EV Jobs Hub To date, the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) has awarded nearly $35 billion in loans (including both conditional and finalized loans) to support electric vehicle [...]

Shortly after the election, Atlas Public Policy’s founder, Nick Nigro, sat down with Mike Murphy, CEO of the EV Politics Project, to discuss what the results mean for electric vehicles (EVs). In this episode of EV Hub Live, Nick and Mike had a lively discussion about what the incoming Trump administration and Republican Congress [...]

Source: EValuateNY Last week, we introduced several updates to the EValuateNY Dashboard, an interactive tool that consolidates and presents data on New York’s electric vehicle (EV) market. The dashboard integrates multiple data categories related to EVs, with most underlying datasets refreshed weekly and vehicle registration data refreshed monthly to ensure users have access to the most [...]

Source: State Policy Dashboard It has officially been three years since the signing of the landmark climate legislation known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), commonly referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Signed into law on November 15, 2021, this historic bill authorized an unprecedented $1.2 trillion investment in transportation and clean [...]

Source: EV Market Dashboard First and foremost, we recently updated the data source for our EV Market Dashboard from S&P Global to Experian. After several years of using data from S&P Global, we were no longer able to use the data in a way that we felt would be most valuable to our users and made the [...]

Today, my colleague Matthew Vining and I published the fifth annual Transportation Electrification in the Southeast report, produced in collaboration with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE). This report assesses the progress of transportation electrification across the Southeast region—Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina—using six core metrics: EV manufacturing employment and investment, EV sales, [...]

The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program continues to progress, as states across the country make significant strides in implementation. NEVI is a five-year, $5 billion formula grant program designed to help states deploy a nationwide network of electric vehicle (EV) chargers along highway corridors. So far, 40 states, plus Washington D.C., have taken [...]

Source: Shutterstock  Dealerships are increasingly becoming key players in the transition to electric vehicles (EVs). As the automotive industry ramps up production of EVs and more consumers shift away from traditional gas-powered vehicles, dealerships are finding themselves at the forefront of this transition. This evolving role requires dealerships to navigate new challenges and opportunities [...]

Source: NEVI Equity Dashboard The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program is progressing rapidly, with states currently awaiting approval of their Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 plans. NEVI is a five-year, $5 billion formula grant program designed to help states strategically deploy electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure along highway corridors. Since the program's inception, states have [...]

Atlas Founder Nick Nigro speaks with Donna Dickson from Ford Motor Company and Marco McCottry from Uber on Day One of the Forth Roadmap Conference. This digest was written by Atlas Policy Analyst Kelsey Blongewicz. Last week, my colleagues and I joined the transportation electrification community in Detroit for two conferences. The EV Infrastructure National Conference was hosted by the [...]

Earlier this month, Atlas Public Policy released the first in a series of analyses aimed at summarizing the policy options available to local, state, and federal agencies, as well as utilities and utility regulators, to accelerate the buildout of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure at the lowest cost. While the U.S. has made substantial progress in [...]