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California
What's the best way to get millions of EV owners not to charge all at once or sign their cars up as grid backup batteries? A new program will test different approaches. Canary Media
Connecticut
Democrats in the Connecticut General Assembly are joining the Biden administration in an election-year retreat from controversy over how hard to push automakers away from gas engines to electric vehicles to mitigate climate change. Connecticut Mirror
International
Heavier cars almost certainly produce more tire particulates, but tire pollution appears roughly comparable among gasoline, diesel and electric cars. The other benefits of switching to electric cars -- most notably lower carbon pollution -- are huge. So fighting air pollution is an important cause, but it does not appear to offer a reason to delay the transition to electric cars. The Guardian
International
EVs represent the deepest tensions between White House climate ambitions, economic goals and foreign policy. Axios
International
The CEO of Toyota isn't mincing words, saying that he believes EVs will only make up 30% of the US new-vehicle market in 2030, half of the target the EPA sought last year. Electrek
New York
Major fleet operators will have access to 24 of Gravity Mobility's 500 kW chargers. The devices can charge at a rate of 2,400 miles of range per hour or 200 miles in five minutes. Reuters
New York
Gravity, a Google-backed start-up that began as an electric taxi fleet operator back in 2021, has inaugurated what it claims to be the fastest DC charging station in the U.S. The chargers are located in a parking lot in the heart of Manhattan, just a block away from Times Square at 401-471 West 42nd St. It's one of the densest and the most crowded areas on the planet where installing dozens of DC fast chargers is anything but easy. InsideEVs
U.S.
Without EVs, solar, wind, and nuclear, the global rise in emissions in the last five years would have been three times larger, new International Energy Agency analysis shows. Electrek
U.S.
As electric car sales pick up in the U.S., the average use rate of many of the country's fast-charging stations nearly doubled last year. Bloomberg
U.S.
A number of Republican-led states are charging higher fees and taxes for electric-vehicle owners to make up for lost gasoline-tax revenue that helps fund roads and highways, prompting pushback from EV industry groups and drivers who say they are being squeezed more than owners of gas-guzzling cars. The debate goes to the heart of one of the thorniest transportation challenges the country faces: how to pay for highway construction and maintenance when the traditional funding mechanism for such work is slowly collapsing. The Wall Street Journal
U.S.
Last year, Americans bought more than 1 million fully electric cars, trucks and SUVs, a record and a milestone for the country's transition away from gas-powered vehicles. Electric vehicles grew to 8.5% of new auto registrations nationwide. Hybrids, which are gaining popularity among those who still want gas as a backup, accounted for an additional 10%. But enthusiasm for plugging in hasn't spread equally across the country. The New York Times
Virginia
A bill that would create a state fund to help pay for building public electric vehicle charging stations in rural areas is trucking along after a near death in a Senate finance subcommittee Feb. 29. House Bill 107, from Del. Rip Sullivan, D-Fairfax, who has introduced similar measures the past two sessions, initially got carried over to next year, the same fate for a version that Sen. Dave Marsden, D-Fairfax, had introduced earlier this session. Virginia Mercury
Washington, D.C.
House Republicans amped up their attacks on electric vehicles Thursday by passing a bill that would prevent the District of Columbia from adopting stringent tailpipe emission standards. E&E News
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