EV News and Industry Trends
Grant Gerke, Senior Writer, Electric Vehicle Association
Full tour of the Volvo EX30.
The Volvo EX30 Arrives in 2024
This impressive all-electric, Volvo EX30 crossover SUV will be on sale in the U.S. in 2024 and will start near $35,000 for the base trim level, per Electrek. Volvo touts that this new EV will be able to go from 0-60 in just over five seconds , and the higher trim level can hit 3.4 seconds. Full review here.
U.S. Electric Grid is Ready for EV Adoption, per the UCS
Samantha Houston, from the Union of Concerned Scientists, offers a critical look at how EV adoption and the electric grid will work together in the near term and future. Houston stresses that immediate EV adoption is not a problem for the grid:
“I’ll say it again because the fossil fuel disinformation machine wants you to believe otherwise: there is enough power generation and transmission on our current electric grid to charge all the electric vehicles being purchased over the next few years.”
Numerous organization came out for the Route Zero Relay event in Washington D.C., including the Washington D.C. EVA chapter and Moms Clean Air Force.
Route Zero Delivers over 130,000 Comments to the EPA
The Route Zero Relay arrived in Washington D.C. in late June and handed over 130,000 comments — still time to add to it. Watch the Route Zero Washington D.C. press conference here and catch up on the entire clean air campaign via our Live Blog of the Route Zero Relay.
KC Fire Department Procures 45 Electric Vehicles
Fleets are understanding the huge savings that electrifying fleets can offer. And look at this EV list!
14 Ford Mustang Mach-Es
27 Chevrolet Bolts
4 Ford F-150 Lightnings
Tesla, Honda Dominate Most American-Made Cars List
From Robert Duffer at The Car Connection:
”The unequivocal leader in making American cars is the lightning rod known as Tesla. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, and with factories there and in Fremont, Calif., it's the only automaker on the index that has 100% of its U.S. sales come from domestic manufacturing. Its four available models took the top four spots on the list, led by the Tesla Model Y, which was the second bestselling vehicle behind the F-150 in the first quarter of 2023.”
Analysis | GM’s 2025 EV Output Could Be Crimped by Battery Bottleneck
Building more than half a million EVs in North America in 2025 “will be difficult, based on (GM’s) planned battery production” at plants in Ohio, Tennessee and Michigan, according to Sam Fiorani, head of global vehicle forecasting at Pennsylvania-based AutoForecast Solutions (AFS), a widely consulted industry research and analytics firm.
Shorter term, investors will be keeping score on whether GM can meet its goal of delivering 400,000 EVs by mid-2024. Through March 31 this year, GM delivered two Hummer EVs, 968 Cadillac Lyriqs and 19,700 Bolts.