Biweekly Digest Archive

Earlier this month, Atlas founder Nick Nigro and I released an updated look at what it costs to own today’s best-selling cars and trucks. In a new fact sheet, we compared the total cost of ownership (TCO) for five of the most popular gasoline vehicles sold in the United States in 2024 and their closest [...]

Image Source: Shutterstock  As reconciliation bill negotiations heat up in Congress, the Senate today kicked off “vote-a-rama” on the “Big, Beautiful, Bill.” Over the weekend, the Senate narrowly passed the bill during a procedural vote, moving the bill one step closer to final passage. The latest version released on Saturday includes key clean energy tax changes, [...]

Source: Clean Economy Tracker Earlier this month, my colleagues and I published analysis on the impact of the Advanced Manufacturing Production Tax Credit (45X) on domestic clean energy manufacturing using data from the Clean Economy Tracker. This tax credit, established under the Inflation Reduction Act, was designed to support domestic production of components used in clean energy technologies, including batteries, [...]

Our last digest outlined changes to the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) clean energy tax credits in the House spending bill, including a direct hit to the New Clean Vehicle Credit, or 30D. As written out in the text, the tax credit would terminate for vehicles placed in service after December 31, 2026, and, more immediately, the [...]

For months, House Republican leaders have been crafting a new spending bill that aims to deliver on President Trump’s legislative agenda. Last week, the Ways and Means Committee and the Energy and Commerce Committee passed text for the reconciliation bill that could significantly hinder electric vehicle (EV) uptake. Ways and Means Committee Text approved by the Ways and Means [...]

Source: How The Clean Vehicle Tax Credit Builds Domestic Manufacturing Today, my colleagues and I published a new analysis on the impact of the Clean Vehicle Tax Credit, or 30D, on domestic vehicle and battery manufacturing. The analysis found that a total of $61.9 billion in announced investments and 91,900 jobs are directly tied to facilities that [...]

Source: Local Government Direct Pay Tracker Earlier this month, Atlas Public Policy, in partnership with Climate Mayors, C40 Cities, the Sustainable Cities Fund (SCF), and the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN), launched a new resource showcasing how communities across the country are leveraging federal tax credits, including those for electric vehicles (EVs). The Local Government Direct [...]

Today, Atlas published a new report titled “Risks from Vehicle Tax Incentive Reform in 2025.” The paper enumerates the risks of repealing or significantly altering the federal tax credits for vehicles and manufacturing. Check out a summary of the report’s major findings. Thanks to a favorable environment, including powerful tax credits creating supply and [...]

Source: EV Market Dashboard Earlier this month, the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM) released a report announcing that ten states have successfully met their collective goal of putting 3.3 million electric vehicles (EVs) on the road by 2025. This achievement marks a significant milestone in the transition to cleaner transportation and demonstrates the effectiveness [...]

Source: Charging Deployment dashboard Over the past few months, the EV Hub team has been busy giving our Charging Deployment dashboard a much-needed makeover. This new look is designed to significantly improve the user experience by simplifying the visuals, consolidating all the data onto one page so that users can view interactions across all visuals, and conduct [...]

Source: EV Market Dashboard After a slow start to 2024, electric vehicle (EV) sales surged to a record high by year’s end. A record 154,000 light-duty EVs were sold in the United States in December 2024 – up nearly 17 percent from December 2023 (132,000 sales). EVs accounted for 12 percent of all light-duty vehicle sales this [...]

Source: EV Market Dashboard On Donald Trump’s first day of office, the President signed a slew of executive orders taking aim at several Biden-era climate initiatives, including those in favor of electric vehicles (EVs), signaling a shift in federal policy efforts to accelerate EV adoption. Two key themes emerge from Trump’s executive actions as is [...]