NetZero Insider’s transportation coverage this week featured reporting on managed vehicle charging and federal funding for electrification.
K Kaufmann covered EPA’s announcement of $900 million in awards for electric school buses. The funds will be spread across 532 school districts in 47 states, along with D.C. and Puerto Rico, and could result in 3,400 new electric buses, K reported.
K also reported on a recent Department of Energy
study that found that managed charging could roughly halve the number of substations needed and save about $700 million in the transition to electric vehicles. Shifting charging to off-peak hours would also significantly reduce the need for additional feeder lines and transformers, the report found.
In other charging news, the deployment of public EV chargers is lagging significantly behind the uptick in electric vehicles. EV adoption has been growing at about three times rate of the rollout of public chargers, The Washington Post reports.
One barrier is the high cost of chargers; in Michigan, a new analysis found that the state has spent about $134,000 per plug point, a price tag that could limit the impact of federal funding. If the price remains consistent, federal funding will only cover about 8% of the chargers needed to meet the state’s deployment goal by 2030, the analysis found.
Meanwhile, in Maine, EV owners hoping to take advantage of free charging promotions have struggled with frequent outages of chargers owned by the Electrify America.
In hydrogen transportation news, hydrogen producer Air Products announced its plans to build upon its current portfolio of six hydrogen refueling stations in Southern California to construct an extensive network of stations across the Golden State.
Hydrogen-powered jets also made the news, with European aircraft manufacturer Airbus selecting Houston, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Atlanta as the locations of studies into the deployment of hydrogen aviation infrastructure.
All that and more in this week’s Intelligence Report:
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