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September 3, 2021
A team of researchers at UC Davis has found that almost forty percent of the trips that people make on the Sacramento area’s bike-share system replaced car trips, both in private vehicles and via ride-hail.
Streetsblog Cal
August 26, 2021
Gil Tal stated that people rarely give just one reason for buying electric…they tend to argue that electric vehicles are fun, fast, easy and, as an added bonus, good for the environment.
New York Times
August 25, 2021
Dan Sperling says “Walmart, Amazon, you know, all these companies that are consumer facing, they’re getting a lot of pressure on them from both stockholders as well as consumers to reduce their carbon footprint. And so they’re putting the pressure on shipping companies”.
Marketplace
August 25, 2021
Gil Tal said, “In order to meet the US’s environmental goals, we have to electrify and clean our transportation system, starting from the light-duty vehicles to transit, heavy-duty and everything else.”
Al Jazeera English
August 25, 2021
Gil Tal, the director of the Plug-in Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Research Center at the University of California at Davis, doesn’t think hybrids are stealing sales from electric vehicles. The technologies, he says, appeal to different types of car buyers.
The Washington Post
August 25, 2021
Gil Tal said, the Biden administration’s new draft rules for vehicle emissions and efficiency, likely wouldn’t lead to a 50% EV sales rate by themselves. Tougher regulations will need to be enacted over time, he said.
E&E News
August 25, 2021
Gil Tal doesn’t think hybrids are stealing sales from electric vehicles. The two technologies appeal to different types of car buyers, he says, “There’s some overlap, but it’s not the same.”
CleanTechnica
August 25, 2021
Gov. Gavin Newsom last year set California on a path to eliminate the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035, leading cities like Sacramento to draw up plans for tomorrow’s electric vehicle drivers.
The Sacramento Bee
August 25, 2021
“What we really need is to get everyone’s attention, get everyone focused,” said Dan Sperling, a California air quality regulator who heads the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis. “This is urgent.”
Los Angeles Times
July 19, 2021
Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and the University of California, Davis Institute of Transportation Studies studied four scenarios to understand how COVID-19 and other political, economic, social and technological drivers may impact transportation activity and global oil demand.
Tech Xplore
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