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The US government is launching two new federal initiatives aligned with President Biden’s goal of establishing a national network of 500,000 public EV charging ports. This time around, it is all about reliability. One of these initiatives is the ...

Scotland enters second phase of bus subsidy programme

The Scottish Government is launching the second phase of its Zero Emission Bus Challenge Fund (ScotZEB). Up to £58 million is to be made available for the procurement of zero-emission buses and associated infrastructure. In the first round of ...

EU approves Spanish aid programme for EV batteries

The EU Commission has approved an €837 million Spanish government programme to support the production of batteries for electric vehicles under EU state aid rules. The programme is open to battery manufacturers and essential components or related raw materials ...

France to push European-made EVs with new subsidy requirements

France will be the first country to implement new prerequisites for EV subsidies, similar to the US Inflation Reduction Act. The government will thus specifically reward buyers of European-made electric cars. And Paris is calling on other European countries ...

US EPA to invest $4 billion in port infrastructure

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it was taking the first steps to develop programmes that will invest $4 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act in the nation’s port infrastructure. The EPA is now opening up for ...

Copenhagen wants to ban petrol and diesel cars

Copenhagen is looking to ban cars with combustion engines from the city by 2030. On Friday, all local governing parties agreed on a resolution to pave the way. The Danish capital will conduct feasibility studies by the end of ...

California: Green light for combustion engine phase-out

California is getting serious and banning the sale of new trucks with combustion engines from 2036. This is provided for in the “Advanced Clean Fleets” regulation now passed by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). On Friday, CARB voted ...

EPA releases $400 mn in grants for the Clean School Bus scheme

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has freed $400 million in grants for financing “cleaner” school buses, primarily electric ones but also those running on gas. This is the first round of funding coming as grants but follows on ...

Australia: Queensland doubles EV subsidies

The Queensland government is doubling up on EV rebates, meaning that eligible households can receive another $3.000 – on top of the $3,000 rebate that has been granted under the Zero Emission Vehicle Rebate Scheme since last year. That ...

Germany wants to set up critical resource fund

The German government is planning to set up a sovereign wealth fund worth up to 2.2 billion euros to finance the mining and production of critical raw materials for electric car batteries. According to a Bloomberg report, citing insiders, ...

Australia invests AUS$70 million in charging infrastructure

The Australian federal government has announced plans to invest $70 million in grant funding for charging infrastructure to be administered through the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA). The new grant funding follows the release of the National Electric Vehicle ...

USA updates eligible model list for Inflation Reduction Act

The US Treasury Department has updated the list of eligible electric car models. The background is the new rules published a fortnight ago that electric cars in the US have to meet in order to qualify for the tax ...

US EPA presents stricter emissions proposals until 2032

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed far-reaching emission reductions for new passenger cars and commercial vehicles. Specifically, car emissions are to be reduced by 56 per cent by 2032 – which could probably only be achieved with ...

US government publishes detailed funding conditions

The US Treasury Department has released the long-awaited conditions that electric vehicles must meet to qualify for tax incentives of up to $7,500 under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). There are no big surprises – though the eligibility of ...

Spain opens €2 billion funding pot with PERTE

Spain’s government plans to launch two new tenders worth two billion euros in parallel in July 2023 for the production of electric vehicles and batteries under its eMobility funding programme PERTE. In the first PERTE funding round, Volkswagen received ...

Germany releases funding for another 1,000 electric buses

The Federal Ministry of Transport has released €270 million in funding for around 1,000 electric buses to more than 50 transport companies in Germany. The certificates were handed over in Berlin this week at the international VDV conference. However, ...

USA & Japan sign trade agreement for battery resources

The US and Japan have signed a trade agreement on minerals for electric vehicle batteries. It allows Japanese car manufacturers broader access to the US market and subsidies there under the Inflation Reduction Act. Under the agreement, the countries ...

EU Member States adopt ICE sales ban almost unanimously

It is set – there won’t be any more sales of cars with internal combustion engines in the EU from 2035. The Member States had their final vote in the Council today. E-fuels will remain outside the scope of ...

EU negotiators agree on targets for H2 and charging network expansion

Negotiators of the European Parliament and the EU states have agreed on binding national targets for the expansion of the infrastructure for alternative fuels – both for passenger cars and trucks. In the passenger car sector, charging stations are ...

Oregan temporarily suspends EV rebate programme

The US state of Oregon will put its “Oregon Clean Vehicle Rebate Program” on ice from 1 May, citing high demand. According to projections, the funds available will be depleted by then. Initially, the programme had a budget of ...

Germany and EU compromise on e-fuels discussion

The EU Commission and the German government have agreed on a compromise on how new cars with combustion engines can be registered after 2035 as long as they run on climate-neutral fuel. The original regulation on the phasing out ...

Potential compromise found in EU e-fuels discussion

A potential solution is on the horizon in the dispute over the phasing out of internal combustion vehicles in the EU. The German transport ministry apparently no longer wants to renegotiate the future CO2 limits for passenger cars, and ...

EU and US could sign subsidy agreement

After the US and the EU announced in mid-March that they wanted to negotiate an agreement on critical minerals for electric car batteries, the US government now submitted a concept paper for a transatlantic raw materials partnership to the ...

Ireland cuts electric vehicle subsidies

The Irish government has announced a reduction of its subsidy for privately purchased electric vehicles. From 1 July 2023, the purchase premium will drop from 5,000 to 3,500 euros. The reduction of the registration tax will remain unchanged. Buyers ...

Austria launches ENIN funding to electrify commercial vehicles

The Austrian Ministry for Climate Action has published the first call from the Emission-free Commercial Vehicles and Infrastructure (ENIN) funding programme. This scheme supports companies in procuring non-fossil fuel commercial vehicles and infrastructure. In German, ENIN is short for ...

Final EU vote on combustion ban this week looking questionable

After the postponed final vote of the EU states on the ban of combustion engines in new cars from 2035, the hanging game continues. Although the EU Commission has submitted a proposal to the German government on e-fuel use ...

Belgium’s ministries to drive electric from summer 2024

In Belgium, federal ministries will only be allowed to buy or lease purely electric official vehicles from July 2024. The Belgian Council of Ministers has now approved a corresponding proposal by the Minister for the Civil Service Petra De ...

EU Commission presents strategy to secure critical raw materials

The EU Commission is aiming for ten per cent of the EU’s demand for critical raw materials to be met from its own mining operations in 2030, 40 per cent from local processing and 15 per cent from EU ...

US wants to cut the cost of clean hydrogen

The US Energy Department (DOE) has allocated $750 million for research, development and demonstration efforts to lower the cost of green hydrogen. One of the areas of interest is onboard storage systems for liquid hydrogen to enable low-cost, energy-dense ...

US opens infrastructure program for communities

The US Department of Transportation released the first funding charge through a new infrastructure-building program. The Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Discretionary Grant Program is in addition to NEVI and pushes US infrastructure funding to the expected $7.5 billion. ...

Quebec pushes public chargers via private companies

The Quebec government is investing nearly $60 million to boost its public network of EV charging stations by 30 per cent. The province has already selected 81 projects and expects about 400 new charge stops to come through these ...

US and EU to coordinate EV incentive programmes

The US and the EU want to negotiate an agreement on critical minerals for electric car batteries, said US President Joe Biden and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen after a meeting at the White House. The planned ...

EU loosens EV & battery subsidy requirements

The EU Commission has adapted state aid rules to simplify the approval of subsidies in key sectors such as batteries and renewable energies. The new rules are a reaction to the US government’s Inflation Reduction Act. The amendment gives ...

Indonesia creates EV incentives

Indonesia will offer government incentives starting 20 March to boost electric vehicle sales and attract investment from foreign companies. Manufacturers must have their own plants in the country to qualify for the subsidies. The incentive programme would benefit dealers ...

EU postpones vote to ban combustion engines due to meddling from Germany

The EU states will not vote as planned on Tuesday on the ban of combustion engines in new cars from 2035. The vote was taken off the agenda of the Council of Ministers and postponed indefinitely. This means that ...

Singapore is getting serious about the environment

Singapore will reduce its domestic emissions by rolling out various green initiatives across the land, air and sea transport sectors. The measures include electrifying bus fleets, as well as support vehicles in the airport and harbour, and a major ...

Europe: The end of the end of combustion engines?

The decision to phase out new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles with internal combustion engines in the EU from 2035 seemed to be a done deal. But now, Germany could overturn it. Other EU countries also revised their ...

Mexico signs decree to nationalise lithium deposits

Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has now officially signed a decree to nationalise the lithium mined in the country. The material vital for the production of electric vehicle batteries vehicle batteries may now only be extracted and sold ...

New Jersey looks at banning ICE sales by 2035

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy outlined broad climate goals, including the creation of a rule adopted by a handful of other states to require all new cars and light-duty trucks sold to be zero-emission by 2035. The proposed rule ...

White House confirms NEVI requirements; gets Tesla on board

The US government has set the final requirements for its “Made in America” cEV charging stations to qualify for the 7.5 billion dollar subsidy programme and NEVI. As leaked in advance, CCS is the new standard, and this time, ...

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