The move toward electric vehicles is making steady progress worldwide, as companies and countries align behind aggressive growth targets. But a renewed battle between California and the Trump Administration on vehicle policies is throwing North American plans into turmoil. Ben Paulos takes an in-depth look. A major global player in promoting zero-emissions vehicles is the ZEV Alliance, a consortium of 14 nations and sub-national governments in Europe and North America. Members of the Alliance – consisting now nine US states, two Canadian provinces, one German state, and four European countries – have pledged to “strive to make all passenger vehicle sales ZEV (zero emission vehicle) as fast as possible, but no later than 2050.” Their goals add up to putting 10 million EVs on the road by 2025 and 20 million by 2030. At September’s Global Climate Action Summit, the ZEV alliance welcomed Baden-Württemberg, the birthplace of the internal combustion engine and heart of the German car industry, and Washington state as new members. Speaking at the Goethe Institute in San Francisco, Winfried Hermann, Minister of … Continue reading Global push for electric vehicles moves forward despite US chaos