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March 24, 2025
A new study, Road Capacity as a Fundamental Determinant of Vehicle Travel, published by the University of California Institute of Transportation Studies, indicates that roadway supply is a key factor affecting the amount that people drive in a community.
Planetizen
March 22, 2025
“We have about a million home chargers in California,” said Gil Tal, a professor with the UC Davis Research Center.
CBS News
March 22, 2025
“It is clear based on the evidence that there is no inflection point, no significant market growth, without strong policy support,” said Gil Tal.
Washington Post
March 18, 2025
“But not every electric car will be able to take advantage of ultra-fast charging stations,” says Gil Tal at the University of California, Davis.
New Scientist
March 18, 2025
“Credit prices are going to start going up if these regulations stay in place,” said Daniel Sperling, director of the Institute for Transportation Studies at University of California, Davis. He helped create the current regulatory credit system when he was a member of the California Air Resources Board.
Marketplace
March 11, 2025
“The state of California is supposed to get couple of 100 millions out of it. The idea of this program was not just to send money to one company that install all the charges and get the best value for charger, but to create the capacity in every state,” said Gil Tal the Director of the Electric Vehicle Research Center.
KMPH
March 7, 2025
“For EVs in the U.S., this is somewhere between problematic and a disaster,” said Dan Sperling, a former California Air Resources Board member and director of the Institute for Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis.
POLITICO
March 1, 2025
“It’s certainly compelling,” said professor Daniel Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis. He noted that the fees could yield two benefits at once: “capturing the value” of curb space — a scarce resource in San Francisco — while also managing traffic.
SF Chronicle
February 26, 2025
“They would have been totally in the red if it were not for the incentives,” said Alan Jenn, an assistant professor at the Electric Vehicle Research Center at the Institute of Transportation Studies. “That is the thing that has really kept them afloat.”
Washington Post
February 19, 2025
“The charging experience can be very, very easy if you drive a Tesla. You just go there and you don’t need to figure out payment or anything, plug and leave.”
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