Apr
03
Dive Brief: President Joe Biden carved out $142 billion for the U.S. Department of Transportation in his proposed $5.8 trillion budget for the 2023 fiscal year. Public transportation would receive a $13.6 billion injection, a $607 million increase from FY2022. And Amtrak would receive $3 billion in its annual appropriation, a $669...
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Mar
28
As of September 2021, almost half of U.S. full-time employees were working remotely, either part or all of the time, Gallup found. Moreover, 91% of full- and part-time remote workers across the U.S. hoped to partially or fully work from home after the pandemic. This shift impacts not just workers and their...
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Mar
21
In a recent conversation with a car dealer in the Dallas area, I was asked who will afford all the electric vehicles that are coming to market in the next several years. Despite all the hype for EVs, the dealer told me, many of his customers live paycheck to paycheck and bargain...
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Mar
14
Women are three times more likely than men to worry about their safety on public transit. They also rely more on public transportation, where sexual harassment and more serious gender-based violence can be commonplace for many. That reality can lead women to choose more expensive travel options – driving or ride-hailing – creating what Sarah Kaufman, associate...
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Mar
07
On a visit to Denver last week, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stood in front of an electric vehicle (EV) charger at the Denver Housing Authority's Mariposa Apartments to tout a plan for moving the country “from the days of electric vehicles being a rare, luxury item and working to make them affordable...
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Feb
28
Dive Brief: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams, along with the mayors of Albany, Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester and Yonkers, unveiled the creation of a Joint Security Operations Center (JSOC) on Tuesday that they say will be a first-of-its-kind center for cybersecurity coordination across the state. The...
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Feb
22
Virgin Hyperloop has laid off almost half its staff as the company switches its focus from transporting passengers to shifting freight. Cuts totaling 111 jobs were confirmed by Virgin Hyperloop to The Financial Times, which spoke to former employees at the company. They described the scale of the redundancies as “definitely not...
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Feb
14
The Super Bowl is a singular moment for automakers: a chance to unveil big-budget ads with ridiculous premises, celebrity cameos, heartfelt ballads, and ... robot puppies. This year will be no different — except that a record number of the seven-figure ads that drop will also star an electric vehicle....
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Jan
31
Here’s the good news: With federal relief funds and the $1 trillion infrastructure legislation that passed last year, cities will have new resources to tackle challenges such as making public transportation more equitable and accommodating growing numbers of electric vehicles hitting the streets. If the Build Back Better bill becomes...
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Jan
24
Dive Brief: A mass deployment of electric vehicle (EV) chargers will require creative third-party financing and innovation from utilities, said Jigar Shah, director of the Loan Programs Office at the U.S. Department of Energy. Speaking Thursday at the virtual National EV Charging Summit hosted by the EV Charging Initiative, Shah said...
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