Articles Tagged with ''electric vehicles (EV)''

The Bipartisan Policy Center Wednesday proposed a compromise $1 trillion infrastructure package that would authorize $300 billion in spending for a clean energy transition, paid for by a combination of increased corporate taxes and user fees. The BPC announced its proposal after House and Senate leaders emerged from a White...

A bill that would require all of New York’s in-state, new passenger car and truck sales to be zero-emission vehicles by 2035 is headed to Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his signature. "We are really hopeful and pretty encouraged that he will sign the bill given that it has a good...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) was one of 12 governors and the only southern leader signing on to a recent letter to President Joe Biden, urging him to require that "all new passenger cars and light-duty trucks sold are zero-emission no later than 2035." Cooper’s goals for North Carolina...

The need for uniform electric vehicle charging standards and the limits of state efforts to price carbon highlighted FERC’s technical conference on electrification and the grid of the future Thursday. How electrification of the economy will unfold over the next few decades is unclear, speakers said, but there’s no question...

About one in five Californians who bought a plug-in electric vehicle between 2012 and 2018 later decided to discontinue their PEV ownership, according to a new study that identifies potential barriers to widespread adoption of electric vehicles. "For the market share of plug-in electric vehicles to continue to grow and...

A new grant program for electrifying fleets in Massachusetts will help expand use of medium- and heavy-duty (M/HD) electric vehicles, but Sean Everett with HDR says electrification of M/HD fleets will have its limits with current technology. Short trips from warehouses to grocery stores and other delivery services are well-suited...

Gov. Charlie Baker last week signed an executive order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and spur energy efficiency at state-run entities. The order directs government agencies to purchase only zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) for state fleets starting next year and double the number of electric charging stations at state facilities by...

A bill pending in the Connecticut legislature will set the stage for the state to take advantage of what Commissioner Katie Dykes expects will be a "tidal wave" of federal infrastructure funding. "Those federal dollars require some level of state or local matching funds, and ... we need to have...

On the shore of Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vt., the beginning of a massive memorial to the city’s energy transition is emerging from a shuttered coal plant. Construction began last year on the Moran Frame project, which will convert Burlington's old Moran coal plant to a permanent art installation at...

California’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Project is rapidly running out of money, a situation caused, in part, by a faster-than-expected rebound in electric vehicle purchases during the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said last week. Funding for the program will likely run out within the next 30 days, the California Air Resources Board...