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Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Trends from the Alternative Fueling Station Locator: Second Quarter 2024
11/18/2024
Electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in the United States continues to rapidly change and grow. Using data from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Alternative Fueling Station Locator, this report provides a snapshot of the state of EV charging infrastructure in the United States in the second calendar quarter of 2024 by charging level, network, location, housing density, and disadvantaged community designation. Additionally, this report measures the current state of charging infrastructure compared with a federal infrastructure requirement scenario. This information is intended to help transportation planners, policymakers, researchers, infrastructure developers, and others understand the rapidly changing landscape of EV charging infrastructure. This is the 18th report in a series.
Authors: Brown, A.; Cappellucci, J.; Gaus, M.; Buleje, H.
Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Trends from the Alternative Fueling Station Locator: First Quarter 2024
9/23/2024
Electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in the United States continues to rapidly change and grow. Using data from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Alternative Fueling Station Locator, this report provides a snapshot of the state of EV charging infrastructure in the United States in the first calendar quarter of 2024 by charging level, network, location, housing density, and disadvantaged community designation. Additionally, this report measures the current state of charging infrastructure compared with a federal infrastructure requirement scenario. This information is intended to help transportation planners, policymakers, researchers, infrastructure developers, and others understand the rapidly changing landscape of EV charging infrastructure. This is the 17th report in a series.
Authors: Brown, A.; Cappellucci, J.; Heinrich, A.; Gaus, M.; Cost, E.
Effects of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations on the Economic Vitality of Local Businesses
9/4/2024
In addition to emissions reductions, electric vehicles (EVs) and EV charging stations (EVCS) offer economic benefits to municipalities nationwide. This study, published by Nature Communications, analyzes data from over 4,000 EVCS and 140,000 businesses in California to highlight the economic benefits of EV infrastructure and the role of EVCS as a driver of local economic growth.
Authors: Yunhan Zheng, David R. Keith, Shenhao Wang, Mi Diao, Jinhua Zhao
U.S. EPA Phase 3 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles
9/1/2024
Heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) contribute 25% of the U.S. transportation sector’s emissions. To reduce these emissions numbers, on April 22, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published new greenhouse gas emissions standards for HDVs, requiring a 60% emission reduction per ton-mile of freight moved by up to 60% for vocational trucks and up to 40% for tractor trucks by 2032 compared with 2027 levels. This report details the projected benefits of the EPA’s ruling and highlights key elements of the plan, such as the emissions standards themselves, as well as finances, fuel use, electric vehicle battery logistics, and more.
Authors: Yihao Xie
Dealership Experiences and Outlooks on Selling, Leasing, and Servicing EVs
9/1/2024
Automotive dealers offer one of the most candid lenses into driver behavior and vehicle purchasing habits. This report highlights prominent observations from seven automotive dealers pertaining to customer electric vehicle (EV) purchases, elucidating the motivating factors behind customer decision-making when it comes to vehicle type, clarifying challenges and opportunities related to EVs, and showcasing resources, policies, and programs that may help to accelerate EV adoption nationwide.
Authors: Nicole Lepre, Jaclyn Lea
Impact of Electric Vehicle Charging Station Reliability, Resilience, and Location on Electric Vehicle Adoption
8/1/2024
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in 2021 directed $7.5 billion towards public electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. To ensure that this funding is utilized effectively, public EV chargers must be reliable. Following surveys that demonstrate buyers concern of public EV charging station reliability, this report examines the relationships between EV station reliability, station resilience, electric grid resilience, and EV adoption, synthesizing the impacts of each to determine what works and what does not work when it comes to EV charger development.
Authors: Bonnie Powell, Caley Johnson
Electric Residential Carshare Program Final Report and Replication Toolkit
8/1/2024
This report details an urban, transit-adjacent, and free electric carshare program exclusively for households in an affordable housing building in Salt Lake City, Utah. In it, key findings, a full review of the systems and hardware used, financial impacts, and a replication toolkit to aid interested entities in starting their own place-based, electric carshare program can be found. External links, resources and our own source code for data analysis are included at the end of the replication toolkit.
Toward Just and Equitable Mobility: Socioeconomic and Perceptual Barriers for Electric Vehicles and Charging Infrastructure in the United States
7/15/2024
This 2024 study published by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) highlights equity-specific barriers to electric vehicle (EV) adoption. The study complicates earlier findings in the literature that suggested socioeconomic, demographic, and geographic variables heavily influenced the perceived benefits, expected driving range, and travel behaviors of EVs. NREL’s findings demonstrate the significance of EV affordability, charging access, and multifaceted infrastructure planning.
Authors: Dong-Yeon Lee, Melanie H. McDermott, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Raphael Isaac
Advancing NEVI: Recommendations from State NEVI Funding Applicants
7/1/2024
This report from the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) offers guidance to future applicants to the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) funding program. NASEO uses information gleaned from candid, in-depth interviews of first-round NEVI awardees to offer seven key recommendations for future NEVI program leads. These recommendations focus on various aspects of the NEVI award process, including how to enhance proposal quality, streamline application reviews, and accelerate the deployment of NEVI-funded stations. The recommendations also come paired with action items to help applicants get their proposals off the ground.
Powering Progress: Advancing Transportation Electrification in Rural Southeastern Communities
7/1/2024
This report follows up on a 2022 Electrification Coalition report, Electric Vehicles (EVs) in Rural Communities, in addressing common roadblocks to transportation electrification in the rural, Southeast U.S. by providing case study examples of how communities have overcome these challenges. As rural communities are particularly susceptible to the effects of oil-dominated transportation systems, examples of successful electrification pathways are critical to wide-reaching EV deployment.
Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Trends from the Alternative Fueling Station Locator: Fourth Quarter 2023
7/1/2024
Electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure continues to rapidly change and grow. Using data from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Alternative Fueling Station Locator, this report provides a snapshot of the state of EV charging infrastructure in the United States in the fourth calendar quarter of 2023 by charging level, network, and location. Additionally, this report measures the current state of charging infrastructure compared with a federal infrastructure requirement scenario. This information is intended to help transportation planners, policymakers, researchers, infrastructure developers, and others understand the rapidly changing landscape of EV charging infrastructure. This is the sixteenth report in a series.
Authors: Brown, A.; Cappellucci, J.; Heinrich, A.; Cost, E.
Customer-Focused Key Performance Indicators for Electric Vehicle Charging
6/18/2024
Electric vehicles (EVs) are a rapidly growing portion of the light-duty vehicle market, but their sustained success is closely linked to the reliability and ease-of-use of public EV chargers. To mitigate issues such as long wait times, difficulties starting charging sessions, and slow charging speeds, this report recommends two sets of numerically defined key performance indicators (KPIs) based on customer pain points that will help streamline the transition to clean vehicles. These KPIs target the following: charger access, starting and completing a charge, and charger-related safety and comfort.
Authors: Casey Quinn; Sarah Cardinali; Jason Clifford; Kaleb Houck; Kristi Moriarty
