Akerman's Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (EVI) Team provides its clients, including businesses, municipalities, and universities, with the multidisciplinary legal services needed for the coming transportation transformation for automated, connected, and electric vehicles. Spurred by technological innovation, the transportation industry is undergoing dramatic changes, including development and deployment of self-driving, electric, and connected vehicles. These unprecedented changes will affect much of the surface transportation industry, including vehicle manufacturers and equipment suppliers, high-technology companies, passenger and freight transportation services, and auto battery development, manufacture, use, and disposal. New vehicles, services, and business models will also catalyze change and create opportunities in a broad swath of other industries and sectors, including technology hardware and software developers; manufacturers and suppliers; auto, property, and casualty insurance; real estate and land use; electric power generation and charging infrastructure; telecommunications; and banking.
Wider deployment and use of automated, connected and electric vehicles will increasingly raise unique legal issues and challenges to be addressed by companies that make, sell, and use such vehicles and technology. Governments around the world are considering new laws and regulations to address vehicles, functions, and services not addressed by existing regulation. Businesses developing, manufacturing, selling, or using new vehicle technologies will be required to address both existing legal and regulatory barriers and new and evolving laws and regulations in order to manage legal risks and take advantage of new opportunities. Our EVI team is well equipped to assist businesses in anticipating, understanding, and meeting those legal challenges and to help them to thrive in new and uncertain legal environments.
Akerman's EVI team can advise on the full range of business and legal issues arising in connection with innovative vehicles. The group is a multi-disciplined, integrated team that combines knowledge and experience from many practices to provide coordinated and complementary services in areas listed below.
