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 July 1, 2021   

Happy Canada Day and early Fourth of July!  Let’s celebrate by giving away an electric drill! If you refer one person to our newsletter in July through the included link below, you’ll be automatically entered. Good luck and have a wonderful day!

Can you take a guess which state only has 266 registered fully electric vehicles? Continue reading to find out if you were correct. 

Here, let’s make it a little easier:  

Montana

Alaska

North Dakota

Mississippi 

South Carolina

EV Headlines

Ford 

Voltage Valley is charging ahead with its $2.3 billion EV battery plant and training to join the EV workforce. The battery plant by Ultium is expected to hire around 1,100 employees.  On the training side, Youngstown State is opening a new $22 million dollar EV training center that is intended to educate 1,500 workers in the next 18 to 24 month.  Just 8,000+ miles (or 23 full battery cycles in a Model 3) east, Triton intends to employ 25,000 people and build 50,000 vehicles at its manufacturing plant in Telangana, India.    More EV News

• Aloha EVs! New laws in Hawaii require taxes from petroleum products to fund EV charging stations, state employees to rent EVs when conducting government business, and state-owned ground transportation to be 100% zero emissions by 2035. 

• Honda reverses course on EV manufacturing future.

• Take a glimpse into a future with only EVs.

• Connecticut announces new EV incentives. 

• A new quarter-mile record in an EV. Can you believe that it wasn’t in a Tesla?

Charging and Autonomous Snapshots

Revel

• What do an iPhone and autonomous driving have in common? They may one day be built by the same company.

• Revel unveils superhub with 25 fast chargers. 

• Safety first. The Zoox robotaxi puts an emphasis on safety. 

• Tucson City Council approves new measures to ensure residents can charge EVs. 

• Tesla’s approach to autonomous driving.

• Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection hits 1,000 Level 2 chargers in the state.

EV & AV Podcasts, Videos & More

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• Plugged in Podcast: Jaguar’s Winning EV Formula

• Solid-State Batteries: The EV Game Raisers?

• Advanced testing and validation for the development of electric vehicle drivelines

Answer

North Dakota

.  The good news is that 100 new EVs have been registered in ND since last May, which represents an increase of more than 60%.  Keep it up ND!

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