Our experts are frequently spotlighted in national/local news outlets and widely read blogs. The headlines and summaries below link to the original news articles and features.
December 12, 2024
“A 2018 UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies report found that carpooling and shared services can reduce urban vehicle miles travelled by up to 13%, directly improving air quality through reduced emissions.”
Bangkok Post
December 9, 2024
“This segment of SUVs is where the demand — what people want — and the efficiency of vehicles meet,” said Gil Tal, who heads the Electric Vehicle …
Washington Post
December 4, 2024
“Scott Hardman, assistant director of the EV Research Center, argued during a CARB seminar today that California officials need to dedicate more resources to educating drivers. ‘We’re spending billions of dollars on infrastructure and incentives, but we’re spending very little on actually educating people and even making them aware of those programs,’ he said.”
POLITICO
December 2, 2024
“In an interview with the HPR, University of California Davis professor Dan Sperling noted that these environmental standards were even more important than any economic incentives advocated for by the administration. The standards set clear benchmarks for where the U.S. wanted to be and signaled to the auto industry how the administration wished to see car manufacturing change.”
Harvard Political Review
November 27, 2024
“Gil Tal, director of UC Davis’ EV Research Center, said Tesla’s dominance of the credit program could have suppressed other companies’ developing their own models. He noted, however, that given the state’s recent requirements for car companies to sell increasing shares of electric vehicles, automakers now have to bring them to market either way.”
POLITICO
November 27, 2024
“California has led the United States in electric vehicle adoption, and Tesla was a massive part of that success,” said Daniel Sperling, a transport expert at the University of California at Davis. “But this proposal reflects a shift toward making EVs more accessible to everyday consumers.”
Diya TV
November 22, 2024
“The Council is an initiative established by the UN organisation Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), the Institute of Transportation Studies at University of California, Davis, and social enterprise Swaniti Global. “
msn
November 20, 2024
“With the publication of the report “Addressing European Research & Innovation Challenges for System Transitions in Energy and Mobility”, the authors – Frank W. Geels, Pierpaolo Cazzola, Wolfgang Ketter, Paula Kivimaa
– aim to offer recommendations and insights regarding the priorities to consider for developing research and innovation in the clean energy and mobility sectors.”
FASI
November 20, 2024
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