What’s Happening With EV Charging Infrastructure In The USA?
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.
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).
California is swiftly advancing, with one EV-charging-friendly bill after another. The latest is via the California Building Code (CBC2016), which looks set to require that all recently constructed parking lots or housing must be ready for electric charging infrastructure. The information is from draft building code documents and written in legal terms. “The new … [continued]
Enjoy this interesting article on a fun electric vehicle story by Herman Trabish, reposted with permission from Greentech Media: This is what the $100 million that NRG Energy is obligated by a legal settlement to invest in battery electric vehicle (BEV) charging infrastructure in California will buy for plug-in car … [continued]