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January 23, 2024
Gil Tal, director of the EV Research Center at UC Davis, said Electrify America is actually performing better than some other charging providers in certain urban centers.
Sacramento Bee
January 23, 2024
“EVs are a done deal,” said Dan Sperling, a former member of the California Air Resources Board and director of the University of California, Davis’ Institute for Transportation Studies.
Politico
January 22, 2024
Dahlia Garas, manager of the UC Davis Electric Vehicle Research Center, tests the reliability of an electric vehicle station operated by Electrify America, in downtown Sacramento on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024.
Sacramento Bee
January 22, 2024
Using the excuse that it isn’t the only company building out a charging network (even though it’s the largest) in the Golden State, director of the EV Research Center at UC Davis Gil Tal actually spoke in defense of Electrify America: “I think they’re getting more heat right now because they’re big and being used much more,” Tal said.
Jalopnik
January 19, 2024
The other thing that happens to EVs when it’s really cold out is that they lose range, per Gil Tal at UC Davis.
Marketplace
January 15, 2024
“Initially, we were surprised that there was so much use of Uber and Lyft,” says Caroline Rodier, a researcher at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies. “But on the other hand, it makes sense, because there is pretty good transit service in that area.”
Next City
January 12, 2024
As Dr. Handy posited as her core premise at the lecture, “research will have little impact on what the transportation profession does if it does not also change how the profession thinks” an echo of the great insight that we cannot solve problems using the same thinking that created them.
Eno Center for Transportation
January 12, 2024
If we haven’t made driving less of a hellscape in 100 years, why should we expect AI to finally get it right? Susan Handy, a distinguished professor at UC Davis and director of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation, doesn’t think we should.
Los Angeles Times
January 12, 2024
The issue is that while the high-speed rail program will need continuous and sustained funding to start operations, more funding isn’t guaranteed, said Giovanni Circella, director of the 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies.
government technology
January 10, 2024
The public weighed in on California’s federal waiver request for its clean cars program. Some theorizing on automakers’ stance, from former CARB board member and director of UC Davis’ Institute of Transportation Studies Dan Sperling: “I’m pretty sure they are to some extent resigned and to some extent eager to have a market created. They desperately need more certainty as they invest tens of billions of dollars each.”
Politico
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