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

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...

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...