The Biden administration on Oct. 19 announced the first set of projects financed by the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to support domestic production of batteries for electric vehicles and the power grid. The funding will also support domestic production of materials and components currently imported from other nations. The 20 corporations are expected…...
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has directed the Department of Environmental Conservation to take regulatory action requiring a growing percentage of new light-duty vehicle sales to be zero-emission starting with 35 percent of sales in model year 2026, and reaching 68 percent by 2030 and 100 percent by 2035. The move follows California’s Advanced Clean…...
The U.S. Department of Transportation on Sept. 27 announced it has approved electric vehicle infrastructure deployment plans for all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico under the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, or NEVI, formula program. The initiative, created by the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, or IIJA, provides $5 billion to…...
The U.S. Joint Office of Energy and Transportation has given California the go ahead to begin using federal infrastructure funding to develop electric vehicle charging stations across the state’s interstates and highways resulting from the latest federal authorization of a joint proposal by Caltrans and the California Energy Commission. The approval of the California Deployment…...
The U.S. Transportation Department, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Housing and Urban Development, and U.S. Energy Department have entered into a memorandum of understanding to coordinate efforts to advance innovative solutions and technologies towards achieving a decarbonized transportation sector, according to a Sept. 16 press release. The transportation sector is a major source of greenhouse gas…...
The California Air Resources Board on Aug. 25 adopted aggressive regulations to shift away from gasoline and diesel engine vehicles, requiring automakers to sell only zero-emission vehicles by the mid of the next decade. The board approved the Advanced Clean Cars II rule, which requires zero-emission vehicles to constitute all new light-duty vehicle sales by…...