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Gold Dome Report - Legislative Day 18 - February 2025

The Georgia General Assembly returned in a frenzy on Tuesday with lawmakers and lobbyists rushing between back-to-back committee meetings in the morning and afternoon on a legislative day bifurcated by a 1 p.m. convening....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

California Climate Change Legislation, Policy and Regulation – 2023 in Review

As we enter 2024, we once again review the most significant legislation, policy changes and regulatory actions with respect to climate change taken by California in the past year. In contrast to 2022, which brought a revamp...more

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Twenty-Seven AGs Ask Congress to Pass Right-to-Repair Legislation

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On March 24, a bipartisan group of 27 state attorneys general sent a letter to Congress, encouraging the passage of “right-to-repair” legislation to establish and secure a competitive marketplace for repairing vehicles,...more

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EV Roundup

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This past year represents a real turning point in the transition to electric vehicles, demonstrated by new major incentives and regulatory activities at both federal and state government levels and several notable...more

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Electric Vehicle and Charging Station Tax Credits: Assessing Proposed Changes

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Section 30D of the US Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) provides business and individual taxpayers that purchase new qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles (“EVs”), including passenger vehicles and light trucks, with a...more

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DOE Loan Program: Where We Are and What to Expect Post-Election

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In the immediate aftermath of COVID-19, a Holland & Knight alert provided an overview of available federal funding options available to private sector energy companies, with a specific focus on those supporting innovative...more

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Can Presidential Politics Supercharge Electric Vehicle Charging Stations?

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Seyfarth's Future of Automotive Series - U.S. Reps. Andy Levin (D-Mich.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) unveiled their “EV Freedom Act” on Thursday, February 7, 2020, proposing the creation of a network of...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

New Autonomous Vehicle Legislation Proposed—What You Should Know

• In October, the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee unveiled a partial discussion draft of autonomous vehicle (AV) legislation. The draft text addresses safety...more

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Highly Automated and Connected Vehicles Update - August 2019

Ford Acquires Journey Holding Corp and Quantum Signal- Journey Holding Corp is considered one of the largest intelligent-transportation system providers in North America and provides a portfolio of technology offerings...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Highly Automated and Connected Vehicles Update - June 2019 #3

NVIDIA Unveils Supercomputer for Autonomous Vehicle Program’s AI Infrastructure - After three weeks of development, NVIDIA has unveiled a supercomputer capable of delivering 9.4 petaflops of processing, which can reportedly...more

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Outlook for US Trade Policy and the World Trade Organization in 2019

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The year 2018 may be remembered as a turning point for US trade policy and the international trading system. The Trump administration took several unilateral trade actions, including the imposition of global "national...more

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AV START Act Addresses Privacy and Cybersecurity Issues Associated With the Development of Highly Automated Vehicles

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In proposed amendments earlier this week to the current draft of the "AV START Act," the Senate addressed important cybersecurity, data access, and privacy concerns associated with the development of highly automated vehicles...more

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Autonomous Vehicles Continue to Move Forward

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• The U.S. Senate has been debating its version of autonomous vehicle legislation, which for the time being does not include autonomous trucks. • The Senate Commerce Committee's marked-up version of self-driving car draft...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Driverless Cars: New Federal Guidelines and a Congressional Hearing

Just in time for #BBKInnovation Week: A revised version of the Federal Automated Vehicles Policy was released by the Department of Transportation through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the Senate...more

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SELF DRIVE Act Passes the House as Senate Prepares Its Own Bill

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On September 6, 2017, the House of Representatives passed the Safely Ensuring Lives Future Deployment and Research In Vehicle Evolution (“SELF DRIVE”) Act, H.R. 3388. All eyes are now on the Senate, which is drafting its own...more

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House Panel Approves Groundbreaking Federal Autonomous Vehicle Legislation Draft

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The House Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection reached bipartisan agreement on July 19, 2017, regarding major aspects of legislation to address the testing and deployment of autonomous vehicles. The...more

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Is Congress Finally Getting Serious About Curtailing Design Patents in the Auto Industry?

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In recent years, OEMs have been growing their design patent portfolios at a rapid pace. Specifically, OEMs have been securing patent protection on replacement parts, including bumpers, fascias, light fixtures, mirrors, hoods,...more

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Self-Driving Cars – Coming to a TN Traffic Light Next to You

Self-driving cars – coming to a traffic light next to you. It has been over eight years since Google first began testing its self-driving cars on the road, and now the Tennessee General Assembly thinks it's time for them to...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

Congress is About to Take Away Your Rights

The U.S. Congress is fighting hard to take away your rights and the power of individual states to protect those rights. The influence of BIG BUSINESS over your elected representatives is being used protect careless and...more

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House members propose bill to nullify CFPB indirect auto finance guidance

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A bipartisan group of fourteen House members have introduced a bill (H.R. 5403) that would nullify the CFPB’s indirect auto finance guidance issued in March 2013 and require the CFPB to provide for a notice and comment period...more

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