Lawmakers are taking steps to advance electric vehicle technology, and the recently passed bipartisan infrastructure bill has allotted funds to install EV charging infrastructure. The new legislation directs state and local governments that receive money from the Department of Transportation to partner with industry stake-holders, including truckstop and travel plaza operators.
02-16-2022The bipartisan $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), signed into law in November 2021, carved out $7.5 billion to expand the nation’s electric vehicle (EV) charging network. From […]
01-24-2022NATSO, representing the nation鈥檚 truckstops and travel plazas, in a letter to the Biden Administration on January 27 outlined the market and incentive structure that would most effectively prompt existing fuel retailers to invest more in lower carbon fuels, including electric vehicle charging stations.
01-29-2021California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently issued an executive order setting a goal to ban the sale of new gasoline powered vehicles by 2035, and a goal of requiring medium- and heavy-duty trucks to be zero emission by 2045 “where feasible.”
09-28-2020The best way to increase proliferation of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure throughout the United States is through private sector investment by businesses that currently serve the motoring public, a coalition representing cities and communities across America and tens of thousands of off-highway businesses, including truck stops and travel centers, convenience stores, restaurants, hotels and blind entrepreneurs, said today. The groups specifically noted that permitting EV charging stations at Interstate rest areas would discourage such investment and thus be counterproductive.
06-02-2020A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee advanced nine bills Jan. 9, including H.R. 5545 (116) from Chairman Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) that would authorize billions of dollars to expand the nation鈥檚 electric vehicle charging network.
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