Atlas uses our data, analyses, and products to deliver valuable insight and advice to our customers. Our staff is well equipped to work with public agencies, non-profit organizations, and businesses, helping them to achieve their goals. Atlas strategic advising customers include:

Alliance for Transportation Electrification

Atlas provides regular reports and strategic advice on topics of interest to ATE members and key stakeholders in the transportation electrification space, including electric utilities, automakers, charging service providers, policymakers, and non-profit organizations. Atlas publishes these reports — which combine an overview of vehicle-grid integration and EVs potential to provide benefits to the grid with an overview of public investments in charging infrastructure — for public use. Atlas also provides strategic advice to ATE by assisting with reviews and feedback of member company plans and strategies.

Electrify America

Atlas assists Electrify America in meeting its reporting obligations to the California Air Resources Board and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Atlas supports data analysis and reporting for Electrify America’s network of over 2,000 charging stations nationwide. Atlas helps Electrify America process, analyze, and respond to the thousands stakeholders comments and investment suggestions submitted through their publicly-available website. Atlas has developed methodology and a secure process for ingesting and validating data from Electrify America’s charging stations to produce a comprehensive summary of charging usage data and other reporting requirements.

Hawaiian Electric

Atlas worked with Hawaiian Electric to develop their updated Electrification of Transportation (EoT) Roadmap, which will guide the utility’s transportation actions through 2030. Atlas led discussions across HECO to develop strategic vision and guiding criteria, executed significant on-island and virtual stakeholder engagement, developed a final set of detailed proposed utility actions, and drafted the results into a compelling narrative. The resulting roadmap includes approximately 40 actions aimed at planning for transportation electrification on the grid, encouraging managed charging, enabling charging infrastructure for personal, medium-duty and heavy-duty vehicles, facilitating equitable outcomes and community resilience, and supporting workforce development. HECO filed the Roadmap with the HPUC in May 2024.

Natural Resources Defense Council

Atlas assists NRDC with collecting and analyzing data to inform their clean transportation advocacy strategies. We have written reports on EV charging infrastructure best practices, created a database of registered medium- and-heavy duty vehicles, and built an interactive dashboard of state-level EV policies. This work is often published for public use or shared with EV Hub users, including our bi-annual summary of investor-owned utility EV programs. These reports summarize how much investment could be made, how many chargers could be deployed, how programs are committing to distributing their benefits equitably and, recently, how utilities are delivering on implementing these programs. Atlas also assists NRDC staff in real-time with their advocacy work, for example, by using data Atlas has collected to quickly crunch the numbers on EV-related programs we track for EV Hub.

Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation

Atlas advises TDEC on statewide policy and planning initiatives to promote vehicle electrification and sustainable transportation. For example, Atlas examined best practices for developing EV charging at multi-unit dwellings, with an overview of relevant policies, programs, financial incentives, and other considerations. This effort was part of TDEC’s preliminary planning for funding a charging program. Atlas has also participated in Tennessee’s electric vehicle roadmap, advised on educational materials for statewide expansion of public charging stations, collected data on EVs registered in Tennessee, and provided reviews for program proposals and applicant submissions for TDEC’s EV charging programs.

U.S. Department of Energy and National Laboratories

Atlas works closely in support of U.S. Department of Energy transportation programs through direct collaboration with national laboratories and the DOE’s Clean Cities and Technology Integration programs. Through a partnership with Argonne National Laboratory, Atlas provides research and data support to Clean Cities Coalitions and issues periodic reports on EV-related policies, utility investment in EVs, and EV sales. In 2020 and 2021, Atlas led an educational workshop series on electric utility and public utility commission engagement for Clean Cities Coalitions. These workshops covered a range of topics, including the role of electric utilities in supporting EVs, and consumer advocate perspectives on transportation electrification.

Atlas is currently working directly with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and others to host peer-to-peer exchanges that address key transportation electrification questions. Combining our knowledge of the EV market and website development, Atlas will create a dynamic clearinghouse website that aims answer questions from the peer exchanges.