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Business, Legal and Regulatory TREND. Recouping the Cost of EV Charging Stations. Coming to a Legislature Near You.

WHERE: Missouri

What happened? Courts are determining whether EV charging stations are a means of obtaining a charging service or more like a gas station?

What’s the impact? If the EV charging stations are treated like gas stations then utilities can add EV charging stations in their rate base

What did the state PUC argue? That the EV charging stations offer a service, not the sale of electricity, and are not to be included in the rate base

What are Missouri courts saying? An Appellate…

Regulatory TREND | Reduce Utility Rates for EV Charging. WHO. WHAT. WHERE. HOW.

WHO | DTE Energy & Consumers Energy

WHAT | Include in their 3 year plans a reduction in utility rates for EV charging

WHERE | Michigan

HOW |

incentivizing EV drivers to charge at home during off-peak hours
the shift will drive down rates for all customers by millions of dollars
DTE’s $13 million pilot program for time of use rebates

Energy News | Michigan utilities look to lower rates through EV time of use charging

Local Trend. Business Trend. 4 Examples of 1st/Last Mile to Public Transportation.

Entering into partnerships with Waymo, Uber and Lyft, or creating their own programs, cities address last mile transportation options for pulic transit riders such as:

Waymo driverless vans taking riders to transit stops
- A pilot program in Phoenix will start with local government employees and expand to seniors and the disabled
Cities are partnering with ride share companies for first/last mile connections to boost public transit use
Cities are creating their own first/last mile…

3 Shortcomings of Federal Autonomous Vehicle Legislation. 2 Opposition Groups. No State Action.

What groups are opposed to the legislation?

Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety
Major Cities Chiefs Association

What shortcomings do opponents highlight in the legislation?

National Transportation Safety Board’s ongoing investigations
prohibits state regulatory action
data insufficiency, US DOT has 3 years to revise data rules and thats too long
“all crashes involving AVs should be reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration immediately and made publicly available”
i…

3 POINTS WORLDS LARGEST AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE TESTING TRACK. How is it funded?

Where is the world’s largest autonomous vehicle testing track? Ohio’s Transportation Research Center is building it in Central Ohio

What will the facility and track include?

540-acre and $45 million SMART Center
4,500-acre campus total area
1.2-mile-long, six-lane-wide connected roadway, a network of movable intersections, roundabouts and oblique intersection scenarios

Funding by:

State of Ohio
The Ohio State University
JobsOhio, a private nonprofit economic-development group

State…

Lege & Regulatory TREND. 4 Things Law Enforcement Wants in Self Driving Car Regulations.

Tools law enforcement wants to ineract or direct self driving cars, especially during an emergency:

Integration with public safety officials
Regulation of data that is shared between law enforcement and self driving vehicles
Established cyber security standards and privacy standards
Address elderly and disabled population use of autonomous driving vehicles

Reuters | U.S. regulators grappling with self-driving vehicle security.