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May 25, 2021
Dan Sperling says converting school bus fleets to an electric, vehicle-to-grid system could pioneer a larger transition to bidirectional charging for any EV cars or fleets—potentially creating the infrastructure for this shift to make its way to people’s home garages.
Popular Science
May 25, 2021
Dan Sperling says that the mandate set by California for all ride hailing companies to go 90% electric by 2030 could cause problems for drivers, unless some of the costs were taken on by the companies themselves.
Bloomberg Law
May 25, 2021
Gil Tal says an electric pickup can’t be a pickup for everyone…and more traditional buyers won’t necessarily cotton to a new technology right away. “This is a starting point.”
WIRED
May 25, 2021
“California is seeking to become more green and sustainable,” said Bernadette Peters, the executive director of the Center for Regional Change at UC Davis. “In order to achieve these goals, California is focusing on transportation to reach carbon neutrality.”
The California Aggie
May 25, 2021
The federal government would do well to start by modeling their policies on what has worked in California. An excellent, comprehensive summary of California’s programs is the recent University of California Institute of Transportation Studies report Driving California Transportation Emissions to Zero.
NRDC
May 20, 2021
Miguel Jaller says, “E-commerce is not the evil, I don’t think…The evil comes from the abuse of e-commerce, because it’s so convenient that we are abusing this opportunity to have a really nice and eco-friendly option that consolidates cargo.”
New York Times Wirecutter
May 20, 2021
METRANS Transportation Consortium
METRANS Transportation Consortium
May 18, 2021
In a study published in the journal Nature Energy by the University of California Davis, researchers Scott Hardman and Gil Tal surveyed Californians who purchased an electric vehicle between 2012 and 2018 and found roughly one in five switched back to owning gas-powered cars.
Autoweek
May 18, 2021
A recent study done by UC Davis shows one in five EV owners switched back to gas after going green. EVs, it seems, were just too much of a hassle.
Jalopnik
May 18, 2021
UC Davis ITS researchers found that roughly one out of every five EV early adopters “discontinued” EV ownership and switched back to gas-only cars, meaning they actively got rid of the EV they had previously owned and did not replace it with another EV.
VICE
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