The alliance has chosen its own preferred locations for the federally-funded chargers in its Indiana Electric Vehicle Charging Neighbor-Hood Green Book. The book is a nod to the segregation-era guidebook that listed safe places to stop for Black travelers.

Indianapolis is among the worst in the country for energy efficiency, according to the report by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. Transportation is a main factor contributing to Indianapolis’s low score as it makes up about third of the city’s total carbon emissions.

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg highlighted Indiana’s role in helping build the future of electric vehicles Friday.

The EV projects could have a big impact on the climate. Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.

Panelists at an Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute event proposed policies and solutions to things such as housing availability and electric vehicle production.

Purdue University and the Indiana Department of Transportation will start construction this week on a segment of highway capable of charging electric semi-trucks as they drive over it.

The goal is to lessen the fear of running out of power on the road, something that can keep people from adopting EVs. And 40 percent of the benefits of the program are supposed to go to disadvantaged communities. But an equity group said the state isn't putting in the effort to make sure that happens.

General Motors long argued its battery plants have no legal or practical path to be made part of the same United Auto Workers union contract as the rest of its manufacturing workers. On Friday, the UAW announced the company has now agreed to do just that in a last-ditch effort to avoid a potentially devastating strike.

Amid tense negotiations between the United Auto Workers union and the big three automakers Ford, General Motors and Stellantis union workers have growing concerns about the transition from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs).

General Motors is preparing the Fort Wayne Assembly plant for the future with a $632 million investment designed to further EV truck production.