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The market share of plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) remains modest despite public and private investments to promote EV awareness and adoption. To expand EVs beyond enthusiastic early adopters, California's Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP) is investigating ways to use program data to inform incentive and outreach strategies.

As the U.S. begins a transition away from fossil fuels and toward electric vehicles (EVs), a key question emerges: How are we going to charge all of these new EVs?

Just as Americans once invested in railroads, highways and rural electrification to spur productivity, improve quality of life and create a fairer society, we now need to invest in public electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, healthier and more equitable future.

An invited presentation given to the December 2019 Multi-State ZEV Task Force Meeting. Provides an update on rebated vehicles and consumers and their impacts. Discusses appropriate comparisons against which to assess progress, informs strategies to reinforce and scale what is already working, and looks at ways to expand the market further into the mainstream.

The Climate Equity in San Diego project was launched to help reach the broad climate and equity goals of the City of San Diego’s Climate Action Plan (CAP) adopted in December 2015. To ensure benefits of the CAP are inclusive of all San Diegans equitably, empowering underserved communities through education and tangible action is key.

To expand electric vehicles (EVs) beyond early adopters, we need to make EVs equitably accessible and affordable to more Americans. This requires two core types of incentive programs: 1) incentives for buying new EVs, including increased incentive amounts for low- and moderate-income consumers and 2) incentives for buying used EVs.

This year marks the 15th anniversary of California's landmark climate change legislation, AB 32.