California Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 2989 (2018 | CA) exempting helmet use from riding electric scooters on city streets.
Sacramento Bee | Brown exempts adults from wearing helmets on scooters
Category Archives: EV electric vehicles
TREND. Executive Order on Autonomous Vehicles.
Executive Order 13 concerning autonomous vehicles will:
- Interagency Coordination to Launch and Support Autonomous Illinois Initiative
- led by Illinois Department of Transportation
- Set best practices by looking at Review CAV research, pilot projects, and Federal, state, and international action
- look for legal impedements
- Collaborate with industry experts
- develop workforce initiaitves
- Creates the Autonomous Illinois Testing Program
Business TREND. Ride share fee increase fund fund EV purchase.
How will Uber raise rates? By imposing a clean air fee
How much does Uber intend to raise? $260 million
How will the $260 million be used? to help all of its drivers in the city trade their gasoline-or diesel-powered vehicle in for an EV
Where is this happening? London, England
Future Car | Uber to Raise Prices in London to Help Drivers Switch to EVs
Local TREND. EV Charging. Ordinances concerning Parks. WHERE. WHAT. WHY.
WHERE: Santa Monica
WHAT: Passed an ordinance to permit overnight EV charging in parks
WHY: “helps make the switch to electric vehicles logistically possible for the majority of Santa Monica residents”
EV Fleets. What does research say about them helping with EV numbers?
According to new data analytic rubic by National Association of State Energy Officials and Cadmus, government fleet incentives are the least helpfulw ith EV policies because:
- no evidence demonstrates that it improves EV adoption
- fleets are usually too small to make an impact by visibility
Utility Dive | New tool helps states identify EV policies that work, and those that don’t
3 Reasons not to play favorites to EVs | Boone Pickens
In explaining how Texas Commission Environmental Quality should utilize Volkswagen emmissions funds, 3 reasons against the agency proposal:
- TCEQ is following the EPA’s favoritism for electic vehicle by offering funding up to 60 percent
- government shouldnt pick winners and losers
- Texas should use its own resources to achieve clean air- and that’s natural gas vehicles
- “TCEQ should allow grantees to buy a vehicle to scrap”
Austin American Statesman | T Boone Pickens | Commentary: On an…
Regulatory TREND. EV Charging Lanes Coming to the Land of Lincoln?
Illinois Tollway Highway Authority is considering incorporating EV charging into its I-294 modernization.
EV methods being considered are:
- EV charging lanes
- informed:intel gave you info on the lanes first tried in Sweden around Arlanda airport near Stockholm
- EV charging stations
- EV super charging stations
Roads & Bridges | Illinois Tollway may add EV charging to I-294
New Coalition for EV use. 3 recommendations.
Members of the Coalition:
- automakers
- electric utilities
- cities
- consumer groups
- unions
- environmental groups
3 Recommendations:
- Continue to increase fuel-economy standards;
- extend and improve the electric-vehicle tax credit;
- invest more from the federal government in finding and deploying innovative technologies.
NRDC: Commission Unveils Plan to Cut Transportation’s Energy Use
3 Ways Governments are Promoting EVs.
Looking to China and Norway, leaders in EV sales, shows these governments:
- Norwegian government began promoting the use of EVs in 1989
- early incentives
- early promotion of the incentive programs
- cut the annual registration tax on EVs
- exempted all EVs from road tolls
- EV owners to bypass the 24% value added tax
- Chinese government is focusing on promoting EVs through research and investments in EV manufacturing companies
- China is implementing a program like California’s Zero…
Local Government TREND. 19 Cities. Electric Fleet Car Promise. Procurement Link.
The cities & local governments include:
- Los Angeles
- Phoenix
- Houston
- Cleveland
- Pittsburgh
- Fayatteville, N.C.
- Los Angeles County
- Ohio’s Cuyahoga County
Year 1 electric vehicle purchase requirements: 376 vehicles in their first year
Requirements:
- local governments must lease or buy electric vehicles
- provides mechnism for local governments to buy charging equipment
- will offer assistance from the Electrification Coalition