Government initiatives, innovations, and legislation

Shailen Bhatt, the 21st Administrator of the US Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), will deliver a keynote address, join a panel discussion, and tour the exhibition floor at the upcoming EV Charging Summit & Expo (EVCS) in Las Vegas (20-22 March).

Rapid charging stations from Ads-Tec Energy will soon be more widely available in the Dutch provinces of Noord-Holland, Utrecht and Flevoland.

Eaton has announced its Green Motion EV chargers are certified to meet the California Type Evaluation Program (CTEP) requirements for transparent billing practices.

Flo has announced a significant milestone: almost 40% of the company’s US charging stations are in low-income or historically underserved communities.

UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has today (March 6) unveiled his Spring Budget to the nation, and representatives from the electric vehicle and EV charging sectors are largely unimpressed with the lack of support to incentivise flatlining sales of EVs, and the failure to equalise the VAT rate on home and public charging.

Ev.energy has been selected for a California Energy Commission (CEC)'s grant to deploy up to US$41m of public funding to make affordable EV charging available for all Californians.

The UK government's delay in introducing the deadline for the zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate has impacted EV sales but has not slowed charging infrastructure deployment, says Mark Winn, head of site acquisitions at charge point operator SMS.

Twenty-five new EV charging locations coming to Michigan will be in Consumers Energy's communities.

School districts in California face a challenge: under the new Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) Regulation they are under pressure to electrify their bus fleets

Next month's EV Charging Summit & Expo (EVCS) in Las Vegas on March 20-22 is set to play an important role in addressing a significant problem facing the North American EV industry: that the majority of eager EV buyers don’t have confidence they will have access to an adequate charging infrastructure. Event producer Breanna Jacobs tells EV Charging & Infrastructure that EVCS will bring together policymakers, industry players, the media, and commercial buyers worldwide to address this issue.