While a plentiful array of policies in Europe, the United States and Asia have contributed to the larger goal of transforming electricity systems away from fossil fuels to renewable energy, policy-makers have traditionally paid less attention to transformation of other sectors including transportation. There are signs that this is changing. On Thursday the Obama Administration announced an array of initiatives to support electric vehicles (EVs) in the wake of a summit on transportation, led by a supplement to the U.S. Department of Energy's title 17 loan guarantee program to include EV charging facilities, their hardware and software. The White House states that this will unlock up to $4.5 billion in loan guarantees for innovating EV charging concepts. The Administration notes that such guarantees can be "an important tool to commercialize ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...