FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 08/10/2021
Washington, D.C. – Today, the United States Senate passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) by a 69–30 margin. The Zero Emission Transportation Association (ZETA) welcomes the passage of this important bill. As ZETA detailed in a press release last week, the IIJA is an important step toward reaching ZETA’s goal of ensuring 100% electric vehicle (EV) sales by 2030. The bill’s EV provisions are a helpful step forward in electrifying the transportation system, which is the single greatest opportunity to decarbonize our economy – and improve public health, restore American auto leadership, and create hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs at the same time.
ZETA is optimistic that a subsequent budget reconciliation package will further invest in the EV sector in order to fully achieve President Biden's goal of “winning the EV market.” As ZETA outlined in a letter to Congress on July 27, additional investments are required to incentivize consumer purchases of new and used light-, medium-, and heavy-duty EVs, fully electrify the federal fleet and our transit and school buses, further deploy additional charging infrastructure, and drive domestic EV manufacturing.
