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Source: Alliance for Automotive Innovation | More Americans than ever are doing the pollution reduction version of the electric slide: buying electric vehicles. They’re doing it in record numbers, according to the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a group representing manufacturers of nearly 98 percent of cars and light trucks sold in the U.S. EV sales volume in the last three months of 2021 rose 11 percent compared with the preceding quarter. They accounted for 6 percent of all new light-duty vehicle sales in that period, the highest of any quarter to date. EV sales represented 4.4 percent of the market for the full year, nearly doubling their share from 2020.
| | | | A message from Bank of America: Women spend 200 million hours a day globally to get water, but access to capital for infrastructure can change that. Matt Damon and Gary White are combining practical solutions, relentless optimism, and storytelling to help create global access to clean water. In Bank of America’s, That Made All the Difference episode, they discuss scaling these initiatives to help 40 million individuals, particularly women, buy back their time and agency, and enhance their income. | | | | 
| The U.S. now has 44,500 publicly available EV charging locations and 110,158 charging ports — a 16 percent increase from the start of 2021, the alliance said in its report. That increase doesn’t reflect the Biden administration’s plan to dole out $5 billion over five years to accelerate creation of an EV charging network. There has also been a shift in the types of EVs being sold. The report found that light trucks such as SUVs, pickup trucks and minivans made up nearly 58 percent of EV sales in the last quarter of 2021.
| | | | SUBSCRIBE TO NATIONAL SECURITY DAILY : Keep up with the latest critical developments from Ukraine and across Europe in our daily newsletter, National Security Daily. The Russian invasion of Ukraine could disrupt the established world order and result in a refugee crisis, increased cyberattacks, rising energy costs and additional disruption to global supply chains. Go inside the top national security and foreign-policymaking shops for insight on the global threats faced by the U.S. and its allies and what actions world leaders are taking to address them. Subscribe today. | | | | | Even as market share of new EV registrations increased in all states, year-over-year, in the last quarter of 2021, there is a clear western tilt. California has 39 percent of all registered EVs and nearly one-third of the nation’s charging infrastructure, according to the report.
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| | | | A message from Bank of America:   | | | | | | — A new report shows the annual carbon footprint of astronomy research rivals that of entire European countries.NPR has the story. — In the latest chapter of carbon offsets, Dominion Energy is letting its customers in Utah, Wyoming and Idaho chip in $5 a month to offset the average customers’ consumption. Read more from The Salt Lake Tribune.
| | | | A message from Bank of America: What if clean water could help women achieve true equality?
Co-Founders Matt Damon and Gary White joined forces to create Water.org and WaterEquity, initiatives that have helped 40 million individuals, particularly women, buy back their time, agency, and enhance their income.
“The poorest people in the world were paying more for water than the middle and upper class because they weren’t connected to infrastructure. Millions upon millions of girls are missing school because they go and collect money from the family and the ripple effect is incalculable,” said Damon.
Learn about how these leaders are combining practical solutions, relentless optimism, and storytelling to help create global access to clean water in Bank of America’s, That Made All the Difference episode. | | | | | | | Follow us on Twitter | | | | Follow us | | | | |  |
