Weekly Digest Archive

Source: EV Hub The first half of 2021 has seen a flurry of state action on transportation electrification. Nevada and Colorado both took steps to boost funding for electric vehicles and charging infrastructure. On May 31st, Nevada’s Legislature passed SB 448, which will require the state’s largest utility, NV Energy, to invest $100 million [...]

Source: Atlas Public Policy   Atlas Public Policy in partnership with the Alliance for Transportation Electrification published today a research paper, “Benefits of Transportation Electrification in a Post Pandemic World,” which highlights the potential economic, public health, and climate benefits of transportation electrification in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. The first three [...]

Source: EV Hub   This is Conner Smith signing off of the EV Hub Weekly Digests. It has been a pleasure providing more than 100 of these weekly updates to you all over the last two years and I leave the newsletter in capable hands as I prepare for my next adventure in [...]

Source: EV Hub If the first three months of the year are any indication, 2021 is shaping up to be a banner year for the U.S. passenger EV market. EV sales shot up by 95 percent in the first quarter compared to 2020 with March sales 2.5 times higher than the same month last year. [...]

Source: EV Hub The U.S. passenger EV market notched all-time record monthly sales in the first two months of 2021 as the EV hub awaits data from March. U.S. passenger EV sales doubled in February compared to 2020, bringing the quarterly total even without the March data above that from the first quarter of last year. We [...]

Source: EV Hub   State EV policy activity has skyrocketed over the last five years with more than twice as many EV policies enacted in 2020 compared to 2015. The effects of these policies on the EV market range from stimulating adoption, like vehicle rebates, to punitive, like some annual EV registration fees. [...]

Source: EV Hub Global EV investment commitments, as tracked on EV Hub, are nearing the $500 billion mark. Roughly $46 billion of this has been pledged in the first four months of 2021. America’s second-largest domestic automaker, Ford, leads the year in new investment commitments with an additional $17 billion pledged in February. Almost $29 [...]

Source: EV Hub Every week brings new developments in an increasingly hot U.S. EV market. With EVs featuring strongly in Biden’s infrastructure plans, a group of 12 state governors issued a joint letter on April 21 to the Administration urging for national targets to electrify sales of all light-duty vehicles by or before 2035 and [...]

Source: EV Hub The U.S. EV market is off to a roaring start in 2021 with both January and February setting all-time records for those months. In February, EV sales were more than double the same month in 2020. More than 32,700 EVs were sold across the country in February, roughly 3.4 percent of all new [...]

Source: Atlas Public Policy The need to expand EV charging has come into focus as the federal government turns its sights towards transportation electrification as a component of infrastructure spending. President Biden’s American Jobs Plan encapsulates the Administration’s goal to deploy 500,000 charging ports throughout the next decade with funding up to $15 billion. The [...]

Source: Greenlining Last week, the Biden Administration unveiled a sweeping $2 trillion infrastructure package. Heralded as a “once-in-a-generation investment” in the nation’s critical infrastructure, the plan includes a clear focus on addressing racial inequity and climate change. The Administration has proposed funding the investments through a partial rollback of the Trump Administration corporate tax breaks [...]

Source: Atlas Public Policy More than a year after the first lockdowns were implemented, the United States is beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel in the COVID-19 pandemic. Although cases are still dangerously high in many parts of the country, more than a quarter of the U.S. population has received at least [...]