Impacts of Flexible Renewable Hybrid System With Electric Vehicles Considering Economic Reactive Power Management on Microgrid Voltage Stability and Operation

This article delves into the eco-friendly operation of a smart microgrid, highlighting its ability to maintain voltage security through a flexible renewable hybrid system. The framework incorporates wind and bio-waste energy sources to produce electricity, while leveraging electric vehicles as mobile storage units and flexibility resources. The hybrid system is also capable of managing reactive power. The design focuses on two core Objectives: minimizing operational costs and bolstering voltage security in the grid. To ensure these goals are met, several critical constraints are addressed, including the AC optimal dispatch model, security limitations of the smart microgrid, management of hybrid resources …

Survey Results: Electric Vehicles Impacts and Opportunities

Electric cooperatives have been active in developing programs to meet the needs of their members as
they increasingly electrify their modes of transportation, whether that be residential consumers with light
duty vehicles or their commercial and industrial consumers that are electrifying fleets. This report
explores the impacts and opportunities presented by electric vehicles (EVs), drawing on existing
research and insights from a recent survey conducted among our cooperative members and other electric
cooperatives. The findings are categorized into five key areas:

1. EV Education & Outreach
2. EV Rebates Rates & Incentives
3. EV Charger Infrastructure Development
4. EV Charging …

Electric Vehicles and Equity

Can electric vehicles play a role in advancing equity in underserved and historically marginalized communities? This report explores that question in four parts. The report begins with an overview of electric vehicle costs, performance characteristics, and environmental and health impacts, then considers possible pathways for electric vehicles to deliver tangible benefits to communities, including electric school buses and harnessing energy stored in electric vehicle batteries to power critical services in an emergency. It concludes with a discussion of some of the challenges limiting equitable adoption of electric vehicles and potential solutions to help overcome them.…

50 States of Electric Vehicles Q1 2023 – Executive Summary

The purpose of this report is to provide state and local lawmakers and regulators, electric utilities, the electric power industry, the transportation industry, and other energy stakeholders with timely, accurate, and unbiased updates about how states are choosing to study, adopt, implement, amend, or discontinue policies associated with electric vehicles. This report catalogues proposed and approved legislative, regulatory, and utility rate design changes affecting electric vehicles during the most recent quarter, as well as state and investor-owned utility proposals to deploy electric vehicles and charging infrastructure.

In Q1 2023, 49 states plus DC and Puerto Rico took a total of …

Quantifying the Financial Impacts of Electric Vehicles on Utility Ratepayers and Shareholders

Widespread electric vehicle (EV) adoption is critical for meeting economy-wide decarbonization goals and, as a result, states are considering enabling policies and rate designs to accelerate EV deployment. EVs can provide possible financial upside to electric utilities and ratepayers in several ways. For example, from the utility perspective, EVs could drive increased electricity sales and new earnings opportunities through increased capital investments. From the ratepayer perspective, increased electric loads from EVs could reduce average all-in retail rates. The degree to which there are net benefits or costs to shareholders and/or ratepayers depends on how EVs are integrated and managed through …

50 States of Electric Vehicles Q4 2022 and Annual Report Executive Summary

The purpose of this report is to provide state and local lawmakers and regulators, electric utilities, the electric power industry, the transportation industry, and other energy stakeholders with timely, accurate, and unbiased updates about how states are choosing to study, adopt, implement, amend, or discontinue policies associated with electric vehicles. This report catalogues proposed and approved legislative, regulatory, and utility rate design changes affecting electric vehicles during the most recent quarter, as well as state and investor-owned utility proposals to deploy electric vehicles and charging infrastructure.…

Assessment of Light-Duty Plug-in Electric Vehicles in the United States, 2010 – 2021

The number of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) sold in the United States has consistently grown since 2010, reaching 4% of the light-duty vehicle market in 2021. This report examines how the characteristics for these PEVs has changed over this decade, evaluating range, energy efficiency, costs, and performance. Given the vehicle characteristics, this report estimates miles driven, electricity consumption, petroleum reduction, and greenhouse gas emissions attributable to electric vehicles. This report also explores vehicle manufacturing and battery production, considering supply chains from battery cells to assembly. We estimate that electric vehicles have driven 68 billion miles on electricity since 2010, thereby …

Considerable Interest in Electric Vehicles Across Racial, Ethnic Demographics

Transportation is the largest source of global warming emissions in the United States, with light-duty passenger cars and trucks as the largest contributor. These vehicles are a significant contributor to poor air quality, and pollution from on-road transportation disproportionately affects communities of color.

Electric vehicles (EVs) are a critical strategy to reduce transportation emissions, and yet the communities most harmed by the status quo currently adopt this key technology at disproportionately low rates. A recent, nationally representative survey of 8,027 Americans conducted by Consumer Reports with input from the Union of Concerned Scientists, GreenLatinos, and EVNoire, fielded from January 27 …

The Impact of Electric Vehicles on Climate Change

The U.S. is not on track to achieve its climate goals. Achieving a net-zero economy by 2050 will require a nationwide transition to electric vehicles (EVs) and clean energy to power all the new EVs.

The ICF Climate Center offers this report to provide data-driven projections of likely EV adoption scenarios and actionable recommendations for public sector and utility leaders. …

Most Electric Vehicles Are Cheaper Off the Lot Than Gas Cars From Day One

New research finds that in most states, new electric vehicles (EVs) are cheaper to own than gasoline-powered vehicles on a monthly basis from the day they are driven off the lot, even if the sticker price is higher. Many studies have shown EVs are cheaper to operate with a lower total cost of ownership than gasoline-powered vehicles over the vehicle’s lifetime, but this research examines monthly costs of owning and financing an EV compared to a gasoline car, since 85 percent of Americans finance their cars. These savings are contingent on extending the existing federal EV tax credit; if EV …