Weekly Digest Archive

Source: EV Hub   We just received February 2023 electric vehicle (EV) sales data, and new trends for 2023 are beginning to emerge. In February 2023, nearly 100,000 light-duty EVs were sold, representing a 9 percent market share for new, light duty EV sales – a 54 percent increase from February 2022. Continue [...]

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the tightest ever domestic tailpipe emissions standards for light, medium, and heavy-duty vehicles—building upon the federal government’s significant investments to guarantee a carbon-neutral and clean transportation future. If these standards take effect as written, the EPA projects that through 2055, approximately 10 billion tons of carbon [...]

Image source: WRI  Earlier last month, an Indiana EV equity alliance convened to discuss how communities can hold the government accountable to the Justice 40 Initiative. According to Denise Abdul-Rahman of the Indiana NAACP, “this funding is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for equity and to improve Black lives.” It is now just over two years since the [...]

Source: Shutterstock   Last week, the U.S. Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced its proposed guidance for the Clean Vehicle Credit, or Section 30D, a long-awaited move for the EV industry since the enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) last August. My colleague Tom Taylor put out a useful summary [...]

Source: EV Hub State legislatures have been busy this session, and electric vehicles (EVs) are on the agenda all over the country. Earlier this year, we provided a legislative rundown on introduced EV legislation. Here are some policy developments we have tracked since our last update. First and foremost, two more states have announced [...]

Source: ShutterStock   It is a pivotal time for electric vehicle charging in the United States. Just last week, the Federal Highway Administration announced the much-anticipated details of the $2.5 billion Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program (CFI Program) to be allocated over five years. This major development sets the stage for building out [...]

Source: EV Hub   We just published our Q4 Quarterly Review (covering October, November, and December 2022). The slides bring together key developments from the EV market and policy space. Here are four stories that caught our eye: U.S. EV Market Share Continued to Climb The EV light-duty market share in the United States for [...]

Source: EV Hub   Last year was a landmark year for transportation electrification in the United States, and sales data from December 2022 sealed the deal with a record-breaking month. Here are some insights from the data, sourced from the Automakers Dashboard. First and foremost, we capped off the year with the most EVs [...]

Last week, my colleague Zachary Strauss and I released a report on barriers and opportunities to medium- and heavy-duty (MHDV) fleet electrification in New York and New Jersey. The report drew from the findings from a workshop we held on Monday, October 17, 2022, hosted in tandem with Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). This workshop [...]

Source: Shutterstock   Last week, the Biden administration promoted a set of major EV announcements from the Department of Transportation (DOT) and Department of Energy (DOE), including the final minimum standards for NEVI-funded chargers and public and private sector action to accelerate the buildout of an EV charging network nationwide. This latest set [...]

Source: EV Hub   As we charge into 2023, we are now seeing National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program funding starting to roll out of the door. With our NEVI Dashboard, we have been keeping a close eye on requests state agencies have been releasing to solicit charging projects and offer funding awards [...]

Photo by Andrea Izzotti on Shutterstock   Many State legislatures have reconvened for the 2023 legislative session. Here are some legislative trends we have seen in the past month. Let’s start with the not so good news. A few states have kicked off their legislative sessions by introducing anti-EV measures, including Wyoming and [...]