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Wildflower breaks ground on 38-stall JFK Park fast-charging hub in Queens
Wildflower Ltd and the New York City Economic Development Corporation announced on September 9, 2026 the groundbreaking of JFK Park, a 2.6-acre EV charging hub adjacent to JFK Airport that is to open with 38 DC fast chargers, operated by Mercedes-Benz High-Power Charging, with completion anticipated in late fall 2027. NYCEDC's March 2024 selection release had described an initial 65 EV-ready charging stations including 12 rapid ones, anticipated to complete in 2025; the 2026 release gives no cost and calls the project one of the largest public EV fast-charging stations in the city.
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Pennsylvania opens $11M NEVI round for chargers in 26 central counties
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced on September 8, 2026 that $11 million in federal National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure funding is available for public EV chargers in a 26-county central region, the third of four regional Community Charging rounds; applications are accepted until March 12, 2027. PennDOT says the rounds direct over $100 million in federal funding on top of $58 million already invested in corridor charging, and counts nearly 50 NEVI-funded stations built.
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Wisconsin awards $25M in NEVI grants to 42 fast-charging sites
Gov. Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation announced on September 8, 2026 that 42 sites will receive $25 million in National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure grants through the WEVI Connecting Corridors program, for fast chargers on U.S. and state highway corridors the release says were not previously considered for WEVI funding. WisDOT's award list shows Universal EV LLC on 25 sites and Kwik Trip on eight; the release lists federal shares from $396,800 to $930,849, and the governor's office counts approximately $62 million awarded across 120 projects to date.
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Bruegel: Europe's EVs hold 600 GWh, about ten times its stationary storage
Bruegel's European Clean Tech Atlas, published September 2, 2026, says 60 GWh of stationary battery storage had been connected to the European grid by 2024 and estimates 600 GWh of capacity in the EV fleet. Assuming away physical constraints, it says the stationary fleet could absorb or supply the grid's average output for about a quarter of an hour, and the vehicles, if all connected, hypothetically for almost two hours; SolarPower Europe's June 2026 outlook says 2025's additions took operational stationary capacity beyond 100 GWh.
South Coast AQMD opens $73.1M of warehouse fees to zero-emission trucks
The South Coast Air Quality Management District board approved on September 4, 2026 a program offering up to $73,135,300 in mitigation fees paid by warehouse operators under Rule 2305 for zero-emission Class 4 to 8 trucks, yard trucks, and charging and hydrogen fueling infrastructure serving warehouses. Caps are $120,000 per battery-electric Class 8 truck and $240,000 per hydrogen fuel cell Class 8; applications run October 13 to December 15, 2026, first come first served within the Source Receptor Area where the fees were paid, or an adjacent one in the same county if none qualify there.
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Australia's battery-electric sales hit a record 24.9% share in August
Battery-electric vehicles took 24.9% of Australia's new vehicle market in August 2026, with 27,089 sold across all reporting sources, the highest number in any month, according to the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries' September 3 release; The Driven calls the share the best on record, above 23.5% in June. The Electric Vehicle Council puts BEVs plus plug-in hybrids at 36% of the market with the Tesla Model Y the best-selling vehicle at 6,414, and The Driven's tally has petrol cars at 25,824 and diesels at 23,608, both below the BEV count.
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MnDOT opens $41.2M NEVI round for fast chargers in Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Department of Transportation announced on September 1, 2026 its third and largest National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure funding round: up to $41.2 million in federally funded grants for fast-charging stations in Greater Minnesota, split 80% federal and 20% grantee. Proposals are due November 2, 2026; MnDOT intends to make up to 40 awards, one per eligible cluster, and to announce conditional awards by a tentative December 30, 2026.
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Norway's new passenger cars were 98.7% zero-emission in August
Zero-emission cars took 98.68% of Norway's new passenger car registrations in August 2026, which the Norwegian Road Federation (OFV) describes as the highest monthly share it has recorded, up from 96.89% in August 2025. The market fell 3.35% to 13,451 cars as Tesla registered 2,387 fewer than in August 2025; electric vans were 44.9% of new van registrations, below their 53.1% share for the year to date.
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Gorham, NH Tesla Supercharger site to shut October 25 over power bills
Terry MacGillivray plans to shut down the four Tesla Superchargers he installed in Gorham, New Hampshire in May on October 25, 2026, the Concord Monitor reports. Net revenue was almost $15,900 through mid-August while electric bills topped $32,500, driven by delivery and demand charges.
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Ontario airport gets nearly $4.15M FAA grant for electric ground equipment
Ontario International Airport received a $4,147,752 FAA Voluntary Airport Low Emissions grant, announced August 26, 2026, its third and largest in three years. The award covers 75% of a $5.53 million project to install charging infrastructure for electric ground support equipment at Terminals 2 and 4.
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Boise School District launches eight electric school buses for 2026-27
Boise School District unveiled eight IC Bus electric school buses and charging infrastructure at an August 26, 2026 ribbon-cutting, deployed with Durham School Services and Highland Electric Fleets and supported by a $2.76 million EPA Clean School Bus Program award. The buses begin serving students in the 2026-27 school year.
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Schneider Electric launches a home EV charger that manages panel load
Schneider Electric launched Schneider Charge on August 25, 2026: an 11.5 kW (48 A) Level 2 residential EV charger for the United States and Canada with built-in SmartAmp dynamic load management that adjusts charging speed to the home's real-time electrical load, supporting UL 3141 managed-load installations where accepted by the authority having jurisdiction. It ships in NACS (J3400) and J1772 versions; a plug-in model is planned for early 2027.
PG&E expands V2X program to Nissan, Volvo, Polestar, and Kia EVs
PG&E expanded its Vehicle-to-Everything program on August 24, 2026: the Nissan Leaf, Volvo EX90, and Polestar 3 with dcbel's Ara charger, and the Kia EV9 and EV6 with the Wallbox Quasar 2, are now eligible alongside new partners Bidirectional Energy and PowerFlex. Residential incentives run $2,500 to $4,500, PG&E says the new vehicle-and-charger combinations qualify for up to $13,000 in California Energy Commission grant funding subject to additional eligibility requirements, and enrollment stays open through June 30, 2027.
GridLab: V2G could supply 30% of California's utility-scale storage target
A GridLab, Kevala, and E3 report released in August 2026 and announced on August 18 finds that enrolling 10 percent of the 9.7 million light-duty EVs California projects for 2036 in vehicle-to-grid programs could supply 30 percent of the state's cumulative utility-scale storage procurement target, if V2G resources are accredited on a comparable basis with grid-scale storage. The report recommends replacing California's fragmented demand-flexibility programs with standardized products that pay only for measured performance, below verified avoided costs.
Heart Aerospace's 106-foot electric X1 demonstrator makes first flight
Heart Aerospace's X1 demonstrator made its first flight on August 12, 2026, from Plattsburgh International Airport in New York: 27 minutes aloft, 1,100 feet of altitude, and more than one megawatt of all-electric power under a takeoff weight above 25,000 pounds. The company calls it the largest battery-electric aircraft ever flown and is applying the results to its 30-seat hybrid-electric ES-30, targeted for airline service in 2031.
Einride to deploy 500 Tesla Semis, tripling its electric truck fleet
Einride will deploy 500 Tesla Semi trucks on US freight corridors in California, Texas, New Jersey, Illinois, and Georgia, phased over 24 months starting September 2026. Announced August 18, the deal is the largest Tesla Semi deployment to date by the company's own description, and triples Einride's deployed electric fleet to about 750 trucks.
CATL's lithium-air numbers, checked against 15 years of published results
CATL chief scientist Wu Kai told a Beijing industrial forum on May 30, 2026 that the company has cleared 1,000 Wh/kg and 500 cycles with lithium-air chemistry in the lab, reviving a battery type IBM tried and abandoned by 2015. Published, peer-reviewed results run lower and under easier conditions: 700 cycles in simulated air (2018), 1,000 cycles in a single lab cell at room temperature with 1,200 Wh/kg only a stated design target rather than a measured result (2023), and 550 cycles from a new catalyst (2026), with almost none of it demonstrated in humid, carbon-dioxide-bearing air at the level of a full battery. A 1,200 Wh/kg figure widely repeated alongside coverage of CATL's forum remarks actually belongs to an unrelated Argonne/Illinois Tech result, and a 12,000 Wh/kg 'gasoline-level' figure circulating in the same coverage is generic background never attributed to CATL's own scientist. The startup furthest along commercially, Air Energy, is targeting wearables and drones first and electric vehicles only 'over the next five years,' extending a deferral pattern the chemistry has run since 2009.
Coconut Creek runs Florida's first all-electric garbage fleet
Republic Services and the City of Coconut Creek launched Florida's first fully electric residential recycling and waste collection fleet, announced August 21, 2026. Six McNeilus Volterra trucks now serve the Broward County city of about 58,000 residents.