Colorado
Colorado will spend $21 million to expand fast charging networks for electric vehicles throughout the state, with new grants awarded for 46 sites encompassing 290 charging ports, state officials announced Thursday. The expansion will boost Colorado's existing public fast chargers by nearly 30%. The Colorado Sun
Illinois
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency is allocating $25.1 million in grants to add 643 new direct current fast charging ports across 141 locations. yTech
International
The U.S. and the EU may be all warm and cozy inside their NATO mutual defense blanket, but America has given Europe the cold shoulder recently when it comes to cars manufactured on the Old Continent being eligible for U.S. EV tax credits and rebates. A meeting between the two sides took place recently as part of the Trade and Technology Council, a regular format for dialogue between Brussels and Washington. Since it was the last such meeting before the next U.S. presidential election in November, there may be no more chances to open up the Inflation Reduction Act to European manufacturers before that election takes place. CleanTechnica
Maryland
Maryland will require utilities to allow electric vehicles with bidirectional chargers to connect to the distribution grid after the Maryland General Assembly passed HB 1256, the Distributed Renewable Integration and Vehicle Electrification Act, on April 2. Energy Storage News
Minnesota
Under a new proposal being considered by Minnesota legislators, the building code would be amended to require a minimum number of EV-ready and EV-capable spaces, and charging stations within or adjacent to new commercial and multifamily structures, and all new residential buildings that provide on-site parking. Residential structures with fewer than four dwelling units would be exempt. FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has announced another $20 million to build 29 more electric vehicle charging stations, including one in Allegheny County and four along the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The awards are part of the state's allotment of $171.5 million in federal infrastructure funds to build about 150 stations across the state. The charging stations are part of the Biden administration's $7.5 billion program to build about 500,000 new charging facilities across the country by 2030 to spur the use of electric vehicles and reduce air pollution. Pittsburgh Union Progress
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's electric vehicle owners would pay an annual fee to help make up for lost gas tax revenue that goes toward maintaining the state's roads and bridges under a bill being considered by a legislative committee. The legislation, sponsored by the House Transportation Committee Chairman Ed Neilson, D-Philadelphia, would establish the annual fee starting at $125 next year and increasing by $25 a year through 2029 when it reaches $225. In 2030 and thereafter, the annual fee would be adjusted annually at the rate of inflation. The Patriot-News
U.S.
Outdated and insufficient infrastructure, alongside environmental regulatory programs, risk undermining the continued expansion of electric vehicles and EV battery manufacturing in the U.S., according to a new industry report. In Driving Change: Scaling up EVs in the U.S., U.S. law firm Troutman Pepper has been joined by a variety of market actors to reflect on recent growth in the sector and the impediments to continuing this expansion. Troutman Pepper
U.S.
President Biden's new rule cutting emissions from vehicle tailpipes has deepened a partisan battle over automotive technology. The New York Times
U.S.
When Americans steer their electric vehicles off the highway and into shiny new charging stations -- many paid for with federal tax dollars -- they're likely to find them in a curiously familiar place: the gas station. More than half of the charging stations being built so far from the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law are rising at truck stops and gasoline stations, according to data exclusively provided to E&E News by EVAdoption, an EV data consultancy. In essence, the law's $7.5 billion pot for charging is reinforcing the very fossil-fuel infrastructure that the EV era would seem to consign to oblivion. E&E News
U.S.
The Republican politicians who trash electric vehicles aren't helping America's autoworkers -- they are dooming them to obsolescence. That's a path to watching dozens of American auto plants close as vital U.S. industrial capacity melts away. That is the real potential economic bloodbath, and it surely will not make American great again, writes Mike Murphy, a veteran GOP consultant and the founder of EVRepublicans.org. Politico
U.S.
You can't be an effective champion for the idea of public spending if you're always setting us up to be disappointed by the reality of it. Maybe all your wishful projections of new industries sweeping the nation overnight will help you win an election, but inevitably it leads to more skepticism and makes it that much harder to argue for investments we're still going to need, writes Washington Post contributing columnist Matt Bai. The Washington Post
U.S.
The U.S. Senate voted Wednesday to roll back a Transportation Department rule that targeted greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles traveling on highways. Florida Phoenix
U.S.
Since 2011, EVs have contributed much more in utility revenues than costs, applying downward pressure on rates, according to research by Synapse Energy Economics. Electrek
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