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August 25, 2017
Dan Sperling, a member of the air board and director of UC Davis’ Institute of Transportation Studies, wants to see more Californians sharing cars instead of commuting to work by themselves. “I’ve become a big champion of Uber Pool and Lyft Line,” Sperling said.
Sacramento Bee
August 11, 2017
Professor Joan Ogden, Director of the STEPS program at ITS-Davis, says, “We talked to people in the platinum business, and it turns out that almost all of them foresee going from 50 percent recycling to essentially 100 percent in the future. Platinum is going to be in demand for a lot of things. Not only for fuel cells, but for other kinds of clean processes.”
Forbes
August 8, 2017
“There’s just sort of a natural fit between electrics and automation,” said Tom Turrentine, a research anthropologist and director of the Plug-in Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Research Center at ITS-Davis. “Vehicles are increasingly becoming computers-connected to the internet, connected to each other… If computers are running the motor, you want to power them with electricity.”
onEarth/NRDC.org
August 8, 2017
“Drive your car and see what makes the most sense for you,” said Gil Tal, a researcher of transportation and travel behavior at the University of California, Davis. Tal’s research involving 26,000 EV owners in California and his studies in 14 other states showed early adopter EV owners rushed in and installed Level 2 chargers, whether they truly needed them or not.
Consumer Reports
August 7, 2017
A new working group was formed through the China-US ZEV Policy Lab at UC Davis to expand cooperation with Chinese vehicle and battery makers. The lab comes from a partnership established in 2014 between UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies and the China Automotive Technology and Research Center.
Oilprice.com
August 3, 2017
“People are reluctant to buy an electric car until they see those charging stations out there,” says Dan Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis.
PRI's The World
July 27, 2017
“Sacramento has the chance working with Electrify America to get a lot of things right that were challenging before now…great siting…good distribution,” said Austin Brown, executive director of the UC Davis Institute for Energy, Environment, and the Economy. “[M]ost importantly, there’s a really big effort…to integrate electric vehicle charging into disadvantaged communities.”
Capital Public Radio/NPR
July 26, 2017
“When will cars powered by gas-guzzling internal combustion engines become obsolete? Not as soon as it seems, even with the latest automotive news out of Europe.”-From an opinion editorial co-authored by UC Davis’ Amy Myers Jaffe, executive director for Energy and Sustainability, and Lew Fulton, co-director of STEPS (Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways)
The Conversation
July 25, 2017
A report by the Institute for Transport and Development Policy (ITDP), an international non-profit organization, and the University of California at Davis (UC Davis), is the first study to quantify the impacts of changes that could disrupt the world of transport by 2050.
Le Devoir
July 25, 2017
“California is ideally positioned to show the world how a driverless transportation future could help clean the air and cut greenhouse gas emissions. Without this kind of leadership, driverless vehicles could end up doing a lot of environmental damage.”—Giovanni Circella, director of the Future Mobility Initiative at ITS-Davis, from his online opinion editorial.
Fox&Hounds Daily
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