National Drive Electric Week Caps a Packed September

This week marks the end of another month but the start of National Drive Electric Week 2024, where EV enthusiasts across North America come together to answer questions from potential buyers and offer test drives of their vehicles. Take a look at the NDEW website for events in many areas of the United States and Canada.

We also enjoyed seeing several electrification and sustainability events throughout September, starting with FullyCharged.SHOW & Everything Electric's latest event in Canada, then moving on to Forth Roadmap in Michigan and MOVE: Mobility Re-imagined in Texas last week. There was also a full slate of awards and speakers in New York for #ClimateWeekNYC, with themes ranging from heavy transportation electrification to sustainable living.

Here's our best attempt at boiling all this activity down into our regular weekly update... wish us luck! (And if you find this info useful, remember to share it with a colleague and subscribe for future editions.)

🎯International Energy Agency (IEA) published a report detailing the implementation of the full COP28 energy pledge package targets and what this means in practice.

📝 An official wrap of highlights, programs, and panel topics capped a busy week of news and funding announcements from Climate Week NY.

📍Electrify America celebrated a major milestone with the opening of a new flagship charging site in California. The 20-stall station at San Diego's Fashion Valley retail center takes the network past 1,000 sites, including all commercial and Electrify Canada locations.

The Joint Office of Energy and Transportation released an update sharing progress on recent EV charging expansion across the United States, with the overall public network closing in on 200,000 available ports as 2024 comes to a close

🚐 No less than the future of mobility was on the table at Move America 2024 in Austin, TX, where leading transportation & electrification players gathered to discuss our sector's pressing topics. MOVE's "Editors Picks" post is a useful resource to read all the panel summaries.

✅ The transition to an official standard for Tesla's NACS connector, also known as SAE J3400, passed another milestone in September and should be completed soon, according to the Joint Office. More and more charging networks are incorporating the connector type into their plans, alongside the existing CCS1 plug type common across public charging stations.

🗽Electric rideshare leader Revel opened its latest charging hub in New York City, this time with 10 new stalls energized at Manhattan's Pier 36.

🚛 Expansion plans in the heavy-duty transportation sector, where Volvo Trucks added 70 vehicles to fleets across southern California this week. The trucks are funded in part by the EPA's SWITCH-ON initiative. The program contributed $21.5 million for the electric trucks, which will be used for regional drayage.

⚡Headline sponsor of Everything Electric Canada, BC Hydro, marked the completion of its Electric Highway in September.

💳 A study of 4,000 charging stations by Massachusetts Institute of Technology confirmed what many in the sector love to share: attracting EV owners brings with it new customers. Charging stations installed near local businesses typically increased card transactions by around 3% compared to nearby businesses with similar offerings but no EV charging.

🚨According to leading clean transport voices, utilities in California must move more aggressively to reduce the state's backlogged grid upgrades. Failure to do so, along with deploying grid-support technologies such as battery energy storage and energy orchestration systems, puts zero emission freight transportation targets in jeopardy.

🍁 Canada's Parkland Corporation will use a $210 million loan from the Canadian Infrastructure Bank to install up to 2,000 chargers at 400 of its properties across the country.

🚚 All-electric models from General Motors gained access to the Tesla Supercharger network last week, with a couple of commercial exceptions.

☀ National Grid Renewables started work on the Dodson Creek Solar Project in Ohio, which will deliver 117MW of clean solar power and generate an estimated $49 million in direct economic benefit for the local community upon completion.

🔌Ford Motor Company unveiled its new "Power Promise" program, which aims to remove the headache of installing home charging for prospective Ford EV buyers. The initiative gives new owners a free home charger and covers significant portions of the installation costs so that customers quickly gain access to one of the core advantages of EV ownership.

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