Weekly Digest Archive

Source: EV Hub   We just put out our quarterly slides, summarizing developments in Q4 2021. Here are three stories from Q4 2021 that caught our eye. Highest selling quarter and highest selling month of all time The fourth quarter of 2021 saw more EVs sold than ever before. December capped off a [...]

Source: EV Hub   Love the Olympics but bored of all that snow and ice? I’ve got the race for you. I present: the 2021 EV state race. The criteria are these – states race for the highest proportion of EV sales relative to all light duty sales in 2021. In 2021, it [...]

Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Justice40 Map Tool released last week. Source: Electric Vehicle Charging Equity Considerations   There has been a lot of chatter recently about Justice40 (also J40) and its potential impacts on federal programs. So, this week let’s take a closer look at Justice40 and what it might mean for historic climate [...]

The analysis is a model-to-model total cost of ownership comparison between gasoline vehicles and electric vehicles. In other words, when someone is looking to buy a vehicle in 2022, how do EVs fare against some of the most popular gasoline vehicles in the country over an 8-year timeframe with all costs included?

Map of the mainland United States. The green denotes “corridor ready”, and the orange denotes “corridor pending”. Purple dots denote fast charging. Source: FHWA.   There is $7.5 billion available for EV public charging in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) – $5 billion for the National Electric Vehicle Formula Program and $2.5 [...]

This data includes public and workplace charging by year. Source: EV Charging Deployment on EV Hub. The National EV Charging Summit was held last week. The Summit drew attention to the need for public charging across the country. Nick Nigro, founder of Atlas, hosted a panel on charging needs. He showed a clever data animation on the short history [...]

Source: EV Hub   It is a good time to be moving into clean energy. The Department of Energy announced last week that there would be 1,000 job openings to join the Clean Energy Corps. With large investments pouring into transportation electrification not just from the federal government but also from state governments (Governor Newsom [...]

Source: Wikicommons.   Governor Kathy Hochul, in her State of the State address on Wednesday last week dropped some big numbers. The Governor of New York announced a number of ambitious targets, including what would functionally be a statewide gas ban for new buildings by 2027. Importantly, the Governor also announced a target for electric [...]

Source: EV Hub   2021 was a big year. Here are some of the biggest moments. 1. President Biden and major automakers set a target of 50 percent EV sales by 2030. Here’s our write up. 2. Here come the electric trucks. Four states have now adopted the Advanced Clean Truck (ACT) rule [...]

Source: EV Hub   The Volkswagen (VW) Settlement has been one of the most important sources of funding for transportation electrification initiatives over the past few years. On the State Policy Dashboard, we have tracked $3.3 billion in public funding for transportation electrification and the VW Settlement accounts for nearly a quarter of it. [...]

Source: National Electric Highway Coalition.   Electric utility companies last week announced the formation of the National Electric Highway Coalition (NEHC). This Coalition, as seen in the map above, combines the existing Electric Highway Coalition and the Midwest Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Collaboration and adds new members. The NEHC now spans much of the country and [...]

Source: EV Hub   Q3 was mammoth quarter for utility filings for EV programs. Investor-owned utilities proposed programs worth more than $781 million – more than twice what was proposed in Q1 and Q2 combined. So what happens once a utility proposes a program? A state’s Public Utility Commission considers the program, hears [...]