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  • August 22, 2022

    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 [...]

  • August 15, 2022

    The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) passed in the House on Friday last week. It marks an enormous moment for the climate movement and the largest investment in climate action ever. Between the initial draft and the final passage, it doesn’t appear there were any edits to EV elements other than a specification of where [...]

  • August 8, 2022

    Source: EV Hub   Federal and state funding for battery electric buses is on the rise. As funding and policy support ramps up for battery electric buses, as shown in Figure 13, agencies around the country are beginning their transit electrification journeys. This research captures the early learnings and best practices from some [...]

  • August 1, 2022

    Image Source: Shutterstock by Orhan Cam.  It was an announcement only the psychics of America could’ve seen coming. On Wednesday evening, Senator Manchin and Senator Schumer announced that they had reached a deal on a reconciliation bill and had text to boot. The bill, named the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, raises revenue through [...]

  • July 25, 2022

    Source: Technical Assistance · Joint Office of Energy and Transportation Before we begin, five more states have released their draft NEVI plan, including Maryland, Oregon, Indiana, Nebraska, and Rhode Island. View those plans on our NEVI dashboard. For this week's digest, we sat down with Sam Houston to get her take on a few [...]

  • July 18, 2022

    Image source: The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program Guidance The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program is moving quickly. We are now just two weeks out from the due date for state plans to the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation. To recap, states must submit an EV Infrastructure Deployment Plan that [...]

  • July 5, 2022

    Data on popularity of Google searches for “electric vehicles” over the past five years. Source: Electric vehicles - Explore - Google Trends As the EV market continues to soar, so too does public interest in EVs. Interest in the search term “Electric Vehicles” on Google reached a new high in March 2022, the final month of [...]

  • June 27, 2022

    Figure 1. Texas Statewide Planning Map from Texas Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Plan   We have seen our first few NEVI plans. On Friday, Washington state released their draft plan. California, Maine, Texas and Wyoming have all also released draft NEVI plans out for public comment. Given that things are moving fast with this huge pot of funding, let’s dig into what we [...]

  • June 21, 2022

    Source: Shutterstock   After a callout to the EVGridX network, we pulled together this list of programs for light duty vehicles that take equity into account. This list is not exhaustive but provides a useful snapshot of equity focused programs led by state and local governments. There is also a list of reports [...]

  • June 13, 2022

    In our next installment of Staff Picks, we sit down with Josh Rosenberg. Josh is a data analyst at Atlas based out of Washington DC. This is Josh’s last week with Atlas before he moves onto a new job in Colorado and so I wanted to squeeze all the insights I could from him [...]

  • June 6, 2022

    Google search popularity for “lithium mining” since 2004. Source: Google Trends There is a growing chorus of voices talking about lithium. Elon Musk tweeted in April, “Price of lithium has gone to insane levels! Tesla might actually have to get into the mining & refining directly at scale, unless costs improve. There is no shortage of the [...]

  • May 31, 2022

    Source: Automakers Dashboard - Atlas EV Hub We put out the Q1 slides today which summarize electric vehicle developments in Q1 2022. Here are three stories worth noting.   You got the jobs! More than 22,000 EV manufacturing jobs were announced in Q1. That means that more than one in five of all EV manufacturing jobs were [...]

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