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

New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has launched an online dashboard that will give residents a clearer look at how the state is spending the estimated $100 million a year it receives from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). The dashboard at present documents the state’s first expenditures —...

Oregon will require a 4,404% growth in public chargers to meet the demands arising from its 2035 electric vehicle targets, according to a state-funded study to be delivered to Gov. Kate Brown next month. The draft final report by the Oregon Transportation Electrification Infrastructure Needs Assessment (TEINA) Advisory Group shows...

Nevada Sen. Chris Brooks on Thursday introduced a wide-ranging energy bill that would expand transmission and boost the availability of electric vehicle charging across the state. Senate Bill 448, which has six primary sponsors including Brooks (D), was referred to the Senate Committee on Growth and Infrastructure. Brooks discussed the...

Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday vetoed one section of a bill that will require Washington to map out the growth of electric vehicles in the state, along with predicted infrastructure needs. The vetoed section of House Bill 1287 called for the state to implement a fee or tax based on...

The Massachusetts legislature needs to find a way to fast-track clean energy infrastructure disputes. William Green, a professor of chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says the state should pursue a policy solution to development delays that arise when residents oppose infrastructure projects. "We have a sad history...

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...