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December 22, 2020
Source: Mario Ortiz Across the board, 2020 was and continues to be a brutal year for people around the globe as humanity continues to grapple with the pandemic. While everyone has been challenged in some way, difficulties are not distributed evenly and the data shows underserved communities are being the brunt of the pandemic. [...]
December 14, 2020
Source: ICCT Last week, we highlighted the anticipated drop in battery prices that continues to make EVs more competitive with conventional vehicles. Analysts at Morgan Stanley predict that falling battery prices are one factor in addition to a surge new models that will lead to a 50 percent increase in global EV sales in 2021. An [...]
December 7, 2020
Source: BNEF EVs are becoming increasingly cost competitive with conventional vehicles according to forthcoming analysis from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). The group’s annual battery price index is expected on December 16th and projects a 13 percent decline in the cost of batteries between 2019 and 2020. BNEF estimates a battery pack price of [...]
November 30, 2020
Source: Detroit Free Press After months of speculation, GM and Nikola announced an agreement to roll back their planned partnership on November 30th. This marks the next step of a story which began on September 8th when news broke that GM intended to take an 11 percent stake in the startup and manufacture the Nikola Badger ZEV [...]
November 23, 2020
Source: EV Hub The U.S. EV market rebounded in the third quarter with total quarterly sales only two percent below the numbers from 2019. Monthly sales were up 20 percent in September compared to 2019, the first month in 2020 where there was year-over-year growth. Adding in the third quarter sales figures reduces the year-to-date [...]
November 16, 2020
Source: JTC Leading EV markets like Washington continue to give credence to the predictions from Cox Automotive that the pandemic will only be a speed bump in the move to widespread transportation electrification. After falling by 23 percent in the first half of 2020, Washington EV sales have rebounded and were down only 0.5 percent in [...]
November 9, 2020
Source: EV Hub A Special One-On-One Conversation about the 2020 U.S. Election with Dan Sperling of the University of California, Davis In our fourth installment of EV Hub Live, our founder Nick Nigro will be joined by Dan Sperling of the University of California at Davis to discuss what’s next for federal action, state [...]
November 2, 2020
Source: EV Hub he State EV Registration Data Dashboard now has local (ZIP code- or county-level) EV registration data for the top five EV markets in the United States. We recently added California, the nation’s largest EV market, bringing the total number of states for which we have local EV registration data to 15, representing [...]
October 26, 2020
Source: GM The Southeast EV manufacturing sector continues to heat up with General Motors announcing plans to bring production of the upcoming Cadillac Lyriq and $2 billion in facility upgrades to their Spring Hill facility in Tennessee. This is the latest in the automaker’s charge to invest $20 billion in EV manufacturing and bring more than 20 vehicles to market in the United [...]
October 21, 2020
Source: Atlas Public Policy The rise in passenger EV adoption and transportation electrification more broadly throughout the United States since 2018 has generated different outcomes around the country. While states on the West Coast and in the Northeast lead in terms of EV deployment per person, the Southeast has emerged as a hotbed for [...]
October 13, 2020
Source: EV Hub Across the United States, approved utility investment in transportation electrification since 2012 now totals more than $2.6 billion. So far in 2020, 95 percent of the $1.2 billion approved fell in the third quarter with two major approvals in New York and California in July and August. For the first [...]
October 13, 2020
Source: Proterra California continues to advance clean air legislation and regulations amid an ongoing season of particularly devastating wildfires. On September 30, Governor Gavin Newsom singed Assembly Bill 841 into law requiring utilities to cover the costs of grid upgrades and infrastructure on the utility side of the meter necessary to support EV charging deployment. This significantly reduces [...]