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Electric Vehicles:

Yet another study shows that communities of color are disproportionately exposed to air pollution from transportation.

Volkswagen doubled EV deliveries in 2021, delivering 263k EVs worldwide.

• The most important thing in the article is a chart with their annual EV sales since 2019, showing a pretty solid trend.

A comparison between the electric Chevy Silverado and the F-150 Lightning.

Chevy has announced a $30k electric version of the Equinox for production in 2023, we have little detail apart from that.

GM has finally agreed to comply with California's emissions rules, which opens them up to being sold to government entities.

Walmart and FedEx have recently placed orders for electric delivery vans from GM's subsidiary, BrightDrop.

• Walmart reserved 5k vans to be delivered starting in 2023.
• FedEx increased its order from 500 to 2,000 with the plan to add up to 20,000 more in the future. 

The company EnPower will begin producing batteries at its Indianapolis facility starting in 2022, ramping up to 800MWh of annual production by the end of 2023.

The electric bus manufacturer, GreenPower Motor Company, signed a deal with West Virginia to build a manufacturing facility in the state.

• The company will employ 900 people.
• West Virginia agreed to purchase at least $15m worth of buses produced at the facility.

Volvo, Daimler, and Traton have agreed to build out a charging network across Europe to support heavy duty trucking.

• This is a combined €500 million investment.
• The goal is at least 1,700 charging ports within five years.
• The chargers will be accessible to any truck, not just manufactured by the three companies in this venture.

Adopt a Charger has announced a partnership with Rivian to add charging stations at Yosemite National Park and the Golden Gate National Recreational Area.

• Rivian will pay for the charging equipment as well as 10 years of operation and maintenance.
• 13 Level 2 chargers have been converted to Rivian chargers at Yosemite with two more to come.
• 12 Level 2 chargers are going to be built at the Golden Gate area.
• These will be part of the Rivian Waypoint network.

Tesla applied for Volkswagen Settlement funds in Texas for four new charging stations that would be required to include CCS plugs.

• CCS plugs are the SAE standard used across the industry by most modern EVs.
• They applied for between $375,000-$500,000.

BP says that fast chargers are nearly as profitable as gas pumps, which I have a lot of skepticism about.

• This is focusing purely on operational cost/revenue, so it's not completely impossible.

Energy:

Lightsource bp will build 135MW of solar in Arkansas and 345MW in Louisiana, with operations beginning in 2023.

Pattern Energy Group LP has started operation of a new, 1,050MW wind project in New Mexico!

The US Department of Energy has awarded $8.4m for four projects working to produce geothermal energy from abandoned oil and gas wells.

• The four projects are:

According to a new US Energy Information Administration (EIA) report, 85% of power generation expected to be retired in 2022 is coal power.

• 12.6GW of coal power is scheduled to be retired in 2022, out of the total of 14.9GW.

The EIA also projects that nearly half of new electricity generation will be solar power in 2022.

• 46% solar
• 21% natural gas
• 17% wind
• 11% batteries
• 5% nuclear
• 0.2% other

Policy:

The FAA has implemented a new rule that allows aircraft to use continuous descent profiles instead of stair-step profiles, which is more efficient and will reduce GHG emissions.

• The new rule is expected to save 40m pounds (18m kg) of GHG emissions annually.