Weekly Digest Archive

Source: Wikipedia.    As we face down the prospect of a historical investment in transportation electrification in the INVEST in America bill, let’s take a moment to put this funding in some context. Turn back the clock to 2009. In the face of the Global Financial Crisis, the Obama Administration passed the American Recovery [...]

Source: EV Hub   The past few weeks, we have been working hard on a report with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) about transportation electrification in the Southeast (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee). How have things changed since our 2020 Report? You can find out more when the 2021 report [...]

Source: EV Hub   Ok the numbers are in for Q2 (April, May, June). There’s a lot of ground to cover, so let’s dive in.   Sales are up in a big way: June sales data just dropped, and they were a whopper. Over 66,000 electric vehicles sold in June – that’s over [...]

Source: EV Hub A quick quiz: Name one state that doesn’t charge an EV fee. California you say? Wrong. There are 22 states that do not charge any fees currently, but the EV capital of the United States is not one of them. California charges an annual fee of $100 for EVs (technically, [...]

The Future is Electric - and we saw a glimpse of it last week.

You could be forgiven for not tracking the bills that are coming out of Congress – there is a lot going on. We will touch on the big Reconciliation bill being debated in the Senate in a moment, but first, about last night. The text of the INVEST in America Act (H.R. 3684) [...]

May EV sales data dropped mid last week. So what did we see? Sales ticked above 50,000 for the third straight month. To put this number in context, this is more than double the previous high for the month of May. Electric Vehicles made up 13% of all passenger vehicles sold and 3.2% of [...]

Source: EV Hub data on Volkswagen Settlement allocations in 2021.   New Jersey is having its moment in the sun. Governor Phil Murphy recently announced the state is looking to adopt California’s Advanced Clean Truck Rule. The rule requires an increasing percentage of new truck sales to be electric through 2035. Critics argue that there is a need for more [...]

Source: EV Hub   In the first half of 2021, electric utilities were approved to invest more than $44 million in underserved communities led by filings from San Diego Gas and Electric and Xcel Energy Colorado. This latest investment brings the total electric utility investment planned for underserved communities tracked on EV Hub [...]

Source: Proterra   On Friday, June 25th, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced $182 million in grants to local transit agencies for the deployment of zero- or low-emission transit buses and supporting equipment and facilities through the Federal Transit Authority’s Low or No Emission Program (Low-No Program). Total funding from the Low-No program [...]

Source: Pikist On Thursday, June 24th, President Biden struck a deal with a bipartisan group of senators on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework. The proposal includes $579 billion in new spending, of which $15 billion is allocated to EVs and charging infrastructure. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework is [...]

Source: EV Hub   Following the record for quarterly EV sales set in Q1, Q2 is off to a hot start, with April sales up nearly 300 percent year-over-year. The 54,077 electric vehicles sold in April make it the all-time second highest month for U.S. passenger EV sales, falling just short of the 56,257-mark set [...]