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• California board approves EV charging plan despite complaints - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) --> After ripping into Electrify America’s latest public EV charger spending plan for its perceived inadequacies, members of the California Air Resources Board approved it unanimously.Thursday’s vote approved the final $200-million tranche, and a plan for spending it.

• Big electric-truck charging depots are coming soon to… | Canary Media--> With $75.6 million in federal grants, startup WattEV will build three megawatt-scale charging stations aimed at extending the range of heavy-duty EV trucks.

• SIHOT and LADE facilitate hotel EV charging with new onsite EV charging hubs (renewableenergymagazine.com) --> Hotel management system SIHOT has partnered with energy transition start-up LADE to install connected onsite EV charging hubs to improve guest experiences.

• DTE plans 270,000 more EV chargers in public, low-income homes - mlive.com --> DTE Energy officials said they expect more than a quarter-million additional electric vehicles on the road across southeast Michigan by 2028 and they intend to build the chargers to power them.

• 22 Costco Stores Now Offer EV Charging — With More To Come (moneytalksnews.com) --> Costco members in more than a half-dozen states can start charging their electric vehicles as they shop.

• The US Postal Service’s new EV chargers are here - The Verge --> The US Postal Service debuted its first EV charging stations in Atlanta, Georgia, today, the first of many expected to be deployed at “hundreds” of new sorting and delivery centers this year. It’s a key step in the Postal Service’s plan to put together one of the nation’s biggest EV fleets, made up of more than 66,000 delivery vehicles.

• Fleets crucial to EV demand | Small fleet impact for agency model (fleetnews.co.uk) --> In 2023, fleets were responsible for almost two-thirds (64%) of all new battery electric vehicles (BEVs) registered and more than half of all new registrations.  Cox Automotive's insight director, Philip Nothard, said: "With EVs set to make up a growing proportion of the overall new car parc, thanks to the ZEV mandate, a rapidly changing OEM product mix and other factors, buyers need to be found for these new EVs.

• Fleets to remain ‘backbone’ of EV transition in 2024 (fleetworld.co.uk) --> UK fleets will continue to lead EV adoption in the year ahead, increasing consumer acceptance and helping to create a viable used vehicle market, according to a new podcast.
  

• Merchants Fleet to offer Chevy Silverado EV for lease and rental (fleetequipmentmag.com) --> Merchants Fleet announced that it is adding 250 new 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV work trucks to its EV lease and rental roster.
  

• GM Energy will offer FreeWire's unique charging solutions to fleets via new partnership | Electrek --> FreeWire shared that it has partnered with GM Energy to help deploy the former’s ultra-fast EV chargers to commercial and fleet customers in the US.