Electric Vehicles
EV 101 and TVs in Greater Minnesota
Speaker: Diana McKeown, CERTs Co-Director and the Metro CERT Director at the Great Plains Institute
October 10 2024
Diana McKeown from CERTs (Clean Energy Resource Teams) discusses electric vehicles, and Minnesota’s charging infrastructure with this presentation from Diana, including discussion after the main presentation (Q&A starts at the 22:00 mark).
The presentation includes information on:
- The types of EVs (battery, plug-in hybrid, plain hybrid)
- EV Adoption in Minnesota
- Types of EV chargers
- Minnesota EV charging infrastructure, including in greater MN
- EV Benefits
- EV Batteries
- EV incentives (very brief)
+ Utility incentives on chargers
About the Speaker: Diana McKeown joined the Great Plains Institute in July 2013 and is one of three Co-directors for the statewide partnership CERTs (Clean Energy Resource Teams). Diana led the metro region of CERTs since October 2007, before becoming CERTs Co-director in 2023. Over the past 31 years, Diana has coordinated and participated in several clean energy initiatives, campaigns, partnerships and coalitions including Mercury Free MN, POWER Coalition, GreenStep Cities and Cities Charging Ahead! And most recently is coordinating the MN TA Collaborative on behalf of CERTs. Prior to joining the CERTs team, Diana worked for over 14 years at Clean Water Action Alliance of MN. Diana holds a BS in environmental studies from the University of Minnesota.