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Next 10 report finds California will meet or exceed original target of 1.5M ZEVs by 2025

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Studies show that California will need 125,000 to 220,000 charging ports from private and public sources by 2020 in order to provide adequate infrastructure. Current trends suggest that barriers to EV adoption such as price, range, selection and charging-time will continue to diminish, as costs come down and technology improves.

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8-state alliance releases action plan to put 3.3M ZEVs on their roads by 2025

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Eight partnering states released their Multi-State ZEV Action Plan as the first promised milestone for the bi-coastal collaboration to pave the way for increasingly large numbers of zero emission vehicles: plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), battery electric vehicles (BEVs), and hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs).

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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During past eight years the number of plug-in electric vehicle models has increased from one to more than 20, battery costs have decreased 70%, and the number of electric vehicle charging stations has increased from less than 500 in 2008 to more than 16,000 today—a 40-fold increase. Municipal fleet electrification.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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The funding is for the incremental cost of a battery electric bus over a CNG bus and leverages federal, state, local utilities and local match to purchase the battery electric buses for service expansion. Oregon Department of Transportation. 1,450,000. . Transportation District Commission of Hampton Roads.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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If you ask a bunch of experts to predict the cost of a technology 10 years from now, they’re all over the map—9 out of 10 are wrong, and you don’t know which one is right. The Net-Zero America study that we put out towards the end of 2020 and updated in 2021 was a big effort at Princeton. And Oregon is pretty transparent.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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I was a big part of building the first-of-its-kind—at least in the Western world that we knew of—heavy-duty charging site in Portland, Oregon. What happens when we plug in 1.2-megawatt Once your total cost of ownership is lower with a zero-emission vehicle, then that’s a spreadsheet decision. Rustam Kocher: It is. It won’t work.

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The lowly refuse truck offers the perfect use case for electrification

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Scott Barraclough: We’ve been running tests since 2020. Also, depending on where you’re operating, there will be mandates coming in some areas, namely West Coast, California, Washington, Oregon, where fleets of a certain size will be required to have electric vehicles. You can’t take these [trucks] and plug them into the wall.