Taking advantage of the surge in EV sales that was definitely going to come from Republicans killing the US EV tax credit, California rose to new heights in the 3rd quarter. The Golden State had 29.1% of its new car sales coming from fully electric cars. That’s a higher EV … [continued]
The California Energy Commission just announced there are over 201,000 public and shared EV charging ports operating in California now. This total is huge and obviously much more than in other US states. In March of this year, the CEC announced that the total number of EV charging ports in … [continued]
The California Energy Commission recently announced $55 million in funding to expand the Golden State’s public EV fast charging infrastructure. California is the leading electric vehicle and EV charging state in the US by far. Of course, this status has a lot to do with public policy. The state of … [continued]
There’s a trend happening now that many people might not be paying attention to, yet is quite significant. Raymond Tribdino just wrote an article for CleanTechnica about how the Netherlands has focused on creating a robust EV charging infrastructure first rather than over-emphasizing electric vehicles without paying enough attention to … [continued]
Much of the news about electric vehicles and those that run on hydrogen is focused on personal transportation. Medium- and heavy-duty zero-emissions vehicles don’t get as much press, so their sustainability progress may be somewhat overlooked. In California, medium- and heavy-duty trucks generate quite a bit of air pollution: “they … [continued]
How will ample EV charging infrastructures spur EV sales? The goal is to have 100% EV sales in early-adopting states by 2035 and 100% in the rest of the country by 2040.
Analysis Aims To Help California Meet Zero-Emission Vehicle Goals
Originally published on RMI.org By Laurie Stone Michelle Pierce, a retired electrical engineer living in Southern California, is a passionate EV advocate. She started driving an electric vehicle for Lyft because she wanted to expose more people to electric vehicles and demonstrate the benefits of EVs. In 2017, Pierce rented a … [continued]
Today, in a 5-0 vote, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) unanimously approved Southern California Edison’s (SCE) Charge Ready 2 program, a $437 million electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure program that will support deploying up to 38,000 new charging stations across Southern California over the next four years.
On February 9, 2015, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) brought forward a proposal to install more than 25,000 EV charging stations within its territory. Readily embraced by environmentalists, the project faced opposition from ratepayers (questioning the value of this investment) and other EV charging service providers (who did not relish direct competition from a utility).
