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May 18, 2021
Scott Hardman said although the lifetime cost of owning an electric car can be lower than its gasoline counterpart, the sticker price remains higher, dissuading lower-income drivers.
Axios
May 18, 2021
Scott Hardman and Gil Tal wrote “On the basis of results from five questionnaire surveys, we find that PEV discontinuance in California occurs at a rate of 20% for plug-in hybrid electric vehicle owners and 18% for battery electric vehicle owners.”
The Hill
May 18, 2021
University of California Davis researchers Scott Hardman and Gil Tal surveyed just over 4,000 households who own or owned electric vehicles in California and found that about 20% of plug-in hybrid owners and 18% of all-electric vehicle owners end up going back to gasoline-powered vehicles.
Electrek
May 18, 2021
The UC Institute of Transportation Studies — composed of UC Davis, Berkeley, L.A., and Irvine — examined vehicles large and small and the infrastructure needed to support a switch to zero carbon.
Santa Barbara Independent
April 29, 2021
Research from Scott Hardman and Gil Tal of ITS UC Davis shows that roughly one-fifth of electric car owners in California are switching back to internal combustion vehicles.
AXIOS
April 29, 2021
Dan Sperling states that “This report is the first to comprehensively evaluate a path to a carbon-neutral transportation system for California by 2045…We find that such pathways are possible but will rely on extensive changes to existing policies as well as introduction of some new policies.”
Davis Enterprise
April 29, 2021
To help the state achieve its carbon neutrality goal, a team of researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara and UC Institute of Transportation Studies released studies to the California Environmental Protection Agency that examine options for reducing the state’s supply of transportation fuel in parallel with reductions in demand.
edhat
April 16, 2021
Dan Sperling says, “The way to pitch it is that we want to increase accessibility and mobility in our transportation system…we want to increase passenger miles travelled, but reduce vehicle miles travelled, by getting people to use modes of travel other than their own car with a single occupant.
Decarbonizing Transportation
April 16, 2021
Dan Sperling on the subject of sustainable freight said, “I think batteries are going to play the lead role…hydrogen has an opportunity to play a major role if companies start investing…low-carbon liquid biofuels will definitely play a role because there are many applications, like long-haul trucking where liquid fuels have a big advantage.”
FreightWaves
April 16, 2021
CARB Boardmember Professor Dan Sperling acknowledged that the goal of reducing VMT “is challenging politically. But it is a strategy for improving health, for reducing costs to the state and to [travelers], for improving community, for more efficient use of land.”
Streetsblog Cal
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