Weekly Digest Archive

Source: NACFE   Interest in freight electrification has swelled recently as the Environmental Protection Agency takes aim at the medium- and heavy-duty trucks which make up less than five percent of vehicles on the road, but account for about seven percent of overall U.S. emissions. However, many questions remain about the real-world capabilities [...]

Source: EV Hub   One of the biggest challenges facing electric vehicle (EV) drivers is the inconvenience of pulling up to a public charging station only to find that the charger is not functional. We’ve covered the issue of charger reliability in depth in an earlier digest. Since then, research from J.D. Power [...]

Image Source: Beyond DC   Last week, the District of Columbia (D.C.) Council unanimously approved legislation for an income-based financial incentive program for electric bikes, or e-bikes, and is headed to Mayor Bowser’s desk for her signature. As part of this package, income-qualified residents can receive up to $2,000 in the form of [...]

Image Source: Flickr  Last Friday, nearly 13,000 United Auto Workers (UAW) members went on strike simultaneously at three facilities against the Detroit Three– General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis – over failure to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement. UAW members had previously held strikes against a single auto company, but going on strike against [...]

Source :Transportation Electrification in the Southeast: 2023 Last week, my colleagues Tom Taylor, Matthew Vining, and I published the fourth annual “Transportation Electrification in the Southeast” report in partnership with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE). The report benchmarks transportation electrification progress in the Southeast (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, North and South Carolina) [...]

Source: EV Hub   Today, we published our Q2 Quarterly Review, which packages up key electric vehicle (EV) policy and market developments in April, May, and June of this year. As a reminder, you can view the slide decks for each quarterly review here. Here’s what caught our eye in Q2: U.S. EV [...]

The map above covers the state of NEVI grant applications, both historical and current, through August 2023. Source: NEVI Dashboard It’s been a busy year for states for the implementation of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program. Not only were Year 2 plans due to the Federal Highway Administration on August 1st, 2023, [...]

Source: EV Hub   June once again proves to be a hot month for electric vehicle (EV) sales. June 2023 recorded the highest-ever EV sales for any single month; the 127,000 EVs sold represented a 10 percent light-duty EV market share, and a 41 percent increase from June 2022 (approximately 90,000 EV sales). [...]

  Average battery electric vehicle fees by state (2023) This digest was written by Nate Graham, Policy Intern at Atlas Public Policy.  Thirty-four states have now passed additional annual registration fees for electric vehicles, largely to compensate for the gas taxes they do not pay. True, motor-fuel taxes have failed to keep up with [...]

Several of us here at Atlas couldn’t help but notice the all-electric Chevy Blazer in Greta Gerwig’s hit movie Barbie, and apparently, we were not the only ones. General Motors (GM) got a healthy amount of screentime (approximately 10 minutes total) in a film that is the highest grossing by any female director in [...]

Source: Shutterstock   With Tesla being the notable exception, automakers have trailed behind charging providers, utilities, and government when it comes to investing in electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. Now, seven large automakers are taking the EV charging market into their own hands. Last week, these seven global automakers announced an upcoming joint [...]

Source: EV Hub   In the map above, the darker-shaded states represent more state policy activity. States are beginning to wrap up their legislative sessions, and we’ve seen some unique EV policy advancements for better or for worse.  As a reminder, our State Policy Dashboard tracks policy initiatives moving through state legislatures. Here [...]