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July 23, 2017
“The [Model 3] car probably has more power to draw people over than any other car in the market,” said Gil Tal, director of research at the Plug-In Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Research Center at UC Davis.
San Jose Mercury News
July 19, 2017
“This may be the most important signal we’ve seen about a transition to zero emission for the freight sector,” said Daniel Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis and a member of the state Air Resources Board.
Los Angeles Times
July 17, 2017
“The technology is not going to be as efficient as just plugging in your car,” says Gil Tal of the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies. “Even with the best of technology, you’ll lose quite a bit of energy.”
KQED Science
July 11, 2017
“Overall, I find it really encouraging that they went the route of a separate bill targeting local pollutants,” said Professor James Bushnell, a UC Davis economics professor. “To get to two-thirds, you need a coalition of the people who are really focused on the local pollutants joining the people who are focused on the climate question.”
San Jose Mercury News
July 5, 2017
Starting in 2019, all of Volvo’s new models will be hybrids or EVs. The company has been owned by Chinese carmaker Geely since 2009. “Geely can claim Volvo as part of its group and use Volvo’s EVs to compound that,” said Yunshi Wang, director of the UC Davis China Center for Energy and Transportation.
NPR/Marketplace
June 20, 2017
“Tesla has Elon Musk, who is the Steve Jobs of EVs,” said Yunshi Wang, director of the China Center for Energy and Transportation at the University of California, Davis. “Chinese officials get inspired by Musk.”
Bloomberg News
June 19, 2017
“Electric buses could be a huge market for Chinese companies,” said Yunshi Wang, director of the University of California, Davis’ China Center for Energy and Transportation.
ClimateWire
June 19, 2017
Dan Sperling, founder and head of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis, who is writing a book about revolutions in transportation, says public transit in America is at a pivotal juncture. “The story is of transit under great duress,” he said. “Transit is under great risk of shrinking. That is not in anyone’s interest.”
The Sacramento Bee
June 5, 2017
For the state to reach its environmental goals, “California and the world will need the cost of batteries and electric vehicles to come down,” said Yunshi Wang, director of the China Center for Energy and Transportation at UC Davis, who is in Beijing for a different international clean energy summit this week. “China is a leader in this area.”
Los Angeles Times
June 4, 2017
Lew Fulton, co-director at UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies STEPS program, said that autonomous vehicles won’t fix congestion woes unless a pricing system is put in place that discourages zero-occupancy vehicles. “We are especially concerned about the zero-occupancy that can happen with automated vehicles.”
Business Insider
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