Category Archives: EV electric vehicles

TREND. Largest Deployment of EV Fast Charging Stations. What you need to know:

Who: EV Go

How many fast charging stations: 14 battery storage systems at 11 fast charging stations
 

2 Industry reasons EVGo offers for their charging deploymnt:

  • cahrging stations will offer load balancing
  • charging stations will mitigate distribution grid upgrade costs,

Utility Dive | EVgo adding 14 battery storage systems to spur EV fast charger deployment

3 Arguments for EV Paying Mileage Tax. Energy Institute

The academics: The Energy Institute at HAAS School of Business, University of California Berkeley

Their arguments to support pay as your drive programs:

  • The gasoline tax is highly regressive, and EV drivers tend to be disproportionately high income
  • EV environmental damage is not ZERO
  • EV cars still impact roads and impact congestion and traffic

How many states are testing pay as you drive? 

Lege TREND. EV Tax Credits in a Southern Red State.

Georgia legislation, HB 732 (2019 | GA) looks to:

  • reinstate a $2,500 state tax credit for the purchase or lease of new electric, zero emission, and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
  • $10 million annual cap
  • $500 state tax credit for residential EV charging stations
  • $1,500 credit for commercial charging stations

Electrek | Georgia Republicans propose $2,500 state tax credit for electric vehicles

REgulatory TREND. How one State his tackling EVs with an Innovation Start Up Competition. Who. Where. How.

Where: New York

How:

  • New York Created The NYPA Innovation Challenge to spur commericalization for energy storage
  • Supported by  NYPA’s $250 million EVolveNY electric vehicle adoption initiative
  • To meet New York’s goal to add 3 GW of battery storage by 2030.

Who: partnership between the New York Power Authority and New York University Tandon’s Urban Future Lab

Utility Dive | NYPA initiative targets quicker commercialization path for storage, EV startups

Ways States Are Overcoming the EV Gap. Regulation. Legislation.

  • Utility Commissions  implement EV infrastructure programs
  • Partnerships with utilities to roll out EV charging infrastructure programs
    • Utilities can also recoup their investment in EV charging infrastructure
    • Utilities could have rules to allow selling electricity and using the chargers as responsive demand to balance the power grid
  • Which state utility commissions are actively implmenting plans?
    • CA
    • MN
    • OR
    • NY

Forbes | How States Can Overcome The Looming Electric Vehicle Charging…

Reg. TREND. $76 M Proposal in North Carolina to Doubt EV. What your need to know:

Company: Duke Energy

The proposals nuts and bolts:

  • $76 million initiative
  • 2,500 more in-state EV charging stations
  • electric school buses
  • electric public transportation
  •  $1,000 rebate for qualifying Level II charging stations for up to 800 residential customers
  • 800 public charging stations across North Carolina, including DC Fast Charging
  •  $2,500 rebate for 900 qualifying charging stations for commercial and industrial customers who operate fleets
  • financial support to eligible customers…

Local TREND, 2 Reasons A City Said no to GeoFencing Limitations for Scooters.

Los Angeles considered geofencing enforcement for scooters, but applied the brakes when there were no answers for:

  • what happens when a scooter is stopped by geofencing and it is moving with traffic?
  • what happens when a scooter is stropped by geofencing on a hill?

Texas Monthly | The University of Texas’s Scooter Speed Limit Is a Glimpse of the Future

Local TREND. Big Brother Tracking Scooter Speed and Meting Out Enforcement

The University of Texas at Austin is the first in the nation to curb scooter speeds with geofencing limitations. 

Scooters moving above 8mph would be slowed electronically by the scooter powers that be.

Texas Monthly | The University of Texas’s Scooter Speed Limit Is a Glimpse of the Future