electric vehicles

More than 4 in 5 new cars sold in Colorado in 2032 will be required to be electric vehicles, but the state — at least for now — won’t follow California’s lead in effectively banning sales of traditional gas-powered vehicles by 2035.

With electric vehicles on the rise and technology creeping away from combustible engines, the City of Missoula is working to plan an EV network and begin pursuing grants.

Larger incentives, chargers in light poles, and low-cost leasing are among the ideas in a blueprint for boosting ownership and reducing emissions.

The Northwest could see record growth in electricity consumption driven largely by increased demand from industry, a trade group finds.

The new maintenance and operations facility will be fully electric, which also adheres to the agency's goals of creating a vehicle fleet that emits no tailpipe emissions by 2035 – the same year as the city and county's clean electricity goals.

Though they only make up a fraction of cars and trucks on the road now, many projections — from Wall Street firms, trade groups and automakers themselves — predict an imminent surge in electric vehicles over the next decade.

Mining organizations and renewable trade groups say the long permitting timelines and litigation delays for mining projects are incompatible with the urgent demand for materials needed to decarbonize the economy.

The new rules will cut pollution from diesel trains and trucks in low-income communities near the ports and rail yards and are projected to save the state tens of billions in health costs.

Chase Woodruff (Colorado Newsline) School districts, local governments and businesses across Colorado can now take advantage of a pair of new state programs to help fund the switch to zero-emission electric vehicles. State officials on Wednesday formally launched the Colorado Electric School Bus Grant Program and Clean Fleet Vehicle and Technology Grant Program, authorized by recent legislation pa

Annual fees on electric vehicles would range from $130 to $1,000 depending on weight of the vehicle and calculations on how much gas tax that car would pay yearly if it had a combustion engine.