Continuing California’s bi-lateral efforts with China to decarbonize transportation, yesterday the California State Transportation Agency, the California Energy Commission, and the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies hosted the California Battery-Swap Electric Truck Forum at UC Davis.
Researchers at UC Davis have found that more than half of ride-hail trips in California replace walking, biking, carpooling, and public transit trips, or are trips that otherwise wouldn’t happen. They have ideas to make it more sustainable.
Fraser Shilling, who directs UC Davis’s Road Ecology Center, said vehicle collisions with large animals have cost Californians $1.6 billion since 2016 — including vehicle repairs, hospital bills, and insurance costs.
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