Finalizing Proposal Research – Week 13 Blog Post

I started to put together an outline of my Proposal Paper concerning Electric Vehicles and innovations in charging options and found a few gaps in information that I have collected throughout the class one gap was the Biden administrations impact on Electronic Vehicles so I did the following searches and found additional sources:

Database: JOR
Search: Biden Administration Net Zero Carbon EV
Results: 20
Useful Source found:
JACKSON, M., & STRAUSS, Z. (2021). Raising US Climate Ambition in Advance of COP26: An Economic and National Security Imperative. Atlantic Council. http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep31085

Bazilian, M. D., Victor, D. G., Castro, C., Dowling, J. A., Dehghanian, P., Gençer, E., Kammen, D., Logan, J., Mauter, M., Tarroja, B., Wagner, G., Sperling, D., Fulton, L., Arroyo, V., Aultman-Hall, L., Brown, A., Goetz, M., Noland, R. B., Rubin, J., … Sachs, J. (2020). APPROACHES FOR KEY SECTORS. In E. Crete, F. Laird, C. Maddox, C. Fox, L. Barredo, G. Bruna, E. High, A. Lynch, L. Fanaeian, & J. Bettles (Eds.), America’s ZERO CARBON ACTION PLAN: The Zero Carbon Consortium (pp. 162–319). Sustainable Development Solutions Network. http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep29197.8

I also wanted find more quantitative information on the number of EV’s and charging stations in the U.S. so I did the following search.

Database: Gale in Science
Search: “Electric Vehicles” and “number” and “U.S.”
Results:2
Useful Sources found:
AEP – ELECTRIC HIGHWAY COALITION GROWS TO 14 MEMBERS, MORE THAN DOUBLING PARTICIPATION. (2021, July 27). ENP Newswire, NA. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A669745834/SCIC?u=klnb_fhsuniv&sid=bookmark-SCIC&xid=1665ac19

Then I wanted to look into some government publications to get specific information on U.S. EV charging trends and information on other EV’s such as Transit fleets.

Database: Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
Search: Electric Vehicle U.S.
Results:149
Useful Sources Found:
Abby Brown; Stephen Lommele; Alexis Schayowitz; Emily Klotz. 2021. Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Trends from the Alternative Fueling Station Locator: Third Quarter 2020. NREL/TP-5400-79536. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/79536.pdf$$D PDF.. https://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1783774$$D Publisher.

Leslie Eudy; Matthew Post. 2020. Fuel Cell Buses in U.S. Transit Fleets: Current Status 2020. https://permanent.fdlp.gov/gpo160955/75583.pdf NREL.

Through my searches I was able to find many useful sources through each database search and they were mostly relevant to what I was looking for and now I believe I have a great start for writing my proposal. One of my searches was probably too specific and only had two results but of the two results, one of them was actually very interesting and will make a great fit in my proposal.

About Jessie Sampson

Hello! My name is Jessie Sampson and I'm working towards a B.S. in Information Management Systems, I currently have a B.S. in Public Relations from Kansas State University. I live in Seward Nebraska, a town outside of Lincoln, and I work for the State of Nebraska as a Highway Programs Specialist for the Department of Transportation where I coordinate various strategic communications, public involvement and legislative projects. I have two sons Gram, 6, and Liam, 3, and have been married to my husband for almost 10 years. We have had a great summer going to Royals games, swimming, playing t-ball, and just got back from vacation in Colorado where we visited Colorado Springs, Canon City, Boulder and Estes Park.

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