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

Republican senators on Tuesday grilled members of President Biden’s cabinet over the president’s proposed $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, saying it is too broad and too expensive. The exchanges over Biden’s American Jobs Plan came at the first meeting of the full Senate Appropriations Committee since Democrats took control of the...

The U.S. Department of Energy Thursday unveiled a third funding cycle in its 12-year-old Super Truck initiative to spark innovation in the trucking industry. In Super Truck 3, DOE is offering $162 million in a competition to improve vehicular electric drive systems, develop better batteries and build charging stations. The...

The key question about the electrification of U.S. transportation is no longer if it is technically or economically feasible, but how fast it can be accomplished and what federal, state and local policies will be needed to drive rapid and widespread consumer adoption. Berkeley  A new report from the University of...

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) unveiled proposed rules Wednesday that would require manufacturers to meet increasing sales targets for medium- and heavy-duty electric trucks in the state after 2025, to cut carbon emissions. The rules, which set out a system of credits and deficits governing the number...

Public DCFC charging station in Michigan (excl. Tesla) | HDR Inc. Two Michigan local distribution utilities have squared off with Michigan Electric Transmission Co. (METC) over the transmission company’s request to spend $15 million on a pilot project to build charging facilities for long-haul medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles. In...

A draft study on carbon pricing in Hawaii suggests that an appropriately structured carbon tax and monetary redistribution program would lower GHG emissions, provide households with a dividend and not overly hamper the state's economy. The University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization (UHERO) prepared the report for the Hawaii State...

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities is preparing a draft proposal on how to encourage the installation of EV chargers for heavy-duty electric trucks statewide, as a Newark-based trucking company is developing a project that could significantly advance the use of electric trucks in the Port of New York...

President Biden’s opening bid on the 2022 budget makes good on his promise to use a "whole of government" approach to address climate change, calling for an additional $14 billion in "climate change investments." Biden’s $1.5 trillion discretionary budget request released Friday is an attempt to reverse a decade of...

A new survey from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy finds that only six states currently have policies encouraging or requiring equity and environmental justice considerations to be built into new programs for rolling out electric vehicle chargers. According to the report, since 2012, utility commissions in 25 states...

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) is in the final stages of rulemaking to ensure the state has enough publicly accessible electric vehicle charging sites to support Gov. Phil Murphy’s goal of putting 330,000 light duty EVs and plug-in hybrids on the road by 2025. The board last...