Weekly Digest Archive

Source: EV Hub   Last week, Atlas founder Nick Nigro sat down with Dr. Shawn Wilson, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) and Kay Kelly, Chief, Office of Innovative Mobility, Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) to discuss the next steps for Colorado and Louisiana in implementing National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) [...]

Source: Automakers Dashboard    August sales data are in and it was another big month for EVs. Here are trends that caught our eye. 1. U.S. EV sales are up 38 percent year-over-year, and market share exceeds six percent for sixth straight month In August 2022, over 75,000 EVs were sold (75,671 to [...]

Image Source: Unsplash   Vehicle and building electrification are often viewed as two distinct pieces of the decarbonization puzzle.  However, they’re more intertwined than you might think. This past June, electric vehicles made up 8.4 percent of new car sales – a more than 400 percent increase from just two years ago. All [...]

Tesla dominates the EV market. The company has sold 52 percent of all new EVs in 2022 (through the end of July 2022). Tesla’s size – it has sold more EVs than all other companies EV sales combined in 2022 - often overshadows other dynamics in the market. So when we remove Tesla from the [...]

Image source: California Air Resources Board Last week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that the state will take regulatory action to phase out the sale of new gasoline-fueled, light-duty vehicles by 2035, joining a growing cohort of states considering the same policy following the approval of California’s new Advanced Clean Cars II (ACC II) regulation. To [...]

Two weeks ago, ABB announced an EV manufacturing facility in South Carolina. This facility will produce up to 10,000 chargers a year and support around 100 jobs. This followed a slew of other announcements of domestic manufacturing of EV chargers. Until recently, we had only tracked EV manufacturing and battery facilities, but we now [...]

State Policy Actions (including enacted, under consideration and failed) in 2022. Source: EV Hub.  This year, we have seen big legislative movements from states in favor of electric vehicles (EVs). Our recent Legislative Update tracks new policy developments from July and August and provides a comprehensive breakdown of state policy activity over the course of [...]

Spencer Burget and I published the third annual "Transportation Electrification in the Southeast" report on Thursday last week. Produced in partnership with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE), the report covers EV progress in six states – Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina and Tennessee. There are also one pagers for each of [...]

With the recent passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), we are seeing an unprecedented amount of federal dollars going towards electrifying transportation in the United States. The latest data story from Spencer Burget and Nicole Lepre of Atlas Public Policy aims to put the unprecedented [...]

Source: Automakers Dashboard   This story was updated on September 5, 2022, to account for recent developments and revise job estimates. The story was originally published in July 2022.  As automakers go on a hiring bonanza and we build out our Automakers Dashboard further to include more EV battery makers, as of September [...]

When we talk about EVs, we often lump two types of vehicles together – Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV). Both are plugged in but the former are powered solely by electricity and the latter are powered by electricity and gasoline. The batteries of PHEVs are much smaller – generally [...]

Source: EV Hub   We have just published our Q2 Quarterly Review (April, May and June 2022). The slides bring together key developments from the EV market. Here are three stories that caught our eye.   EV Sales on the Rise EVs in the U.S. had their best quarter yet. Below are some [...]