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June 19, 2024
Fraser Shilling, Director of the UC Davis Road Ecology Center, joins KCBS Radio’s Patti Reising and Bret Burkhart to discuss the center’s latest annual report on roadkill.
KCBS Radio
June 18, 2024
“Anytime you get a reduction in roadkill, people think it’s a good thing,” said Fraser Shilling, director of the UC Davis Road Ecology Center, a program of the Institute of Transportation Studies.
UC Davis News
June 18, 2024
The majority of U.S. drivers still drive gas cars, and the majority of them cite two main concerns: sticker price and range anxiety, said Gil Tal, a professor at the University of California, Davis
Marketplace
June 14, 2024
California first began to introduce regulation in the early 1990s, explained Alan Jenn, an assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and researcher at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies.
TechXplore
June 14, 2024
Gil Tal, the director of the EV Research Center at the University of California, Davis said every sale is costing companies thousands per car.
The U.S. Sun
June 5, 2024
Dr. Susan Handy investigates the ideas that have shaped the nation’s car-oriented transportation to help uncover what needs to change to get to a safer, more sustainable system
Streetsblog Cal
June 3, 2024
“It was a slow change when it comes to the environment and climate change,” said Gil Tal, who as director of University of California, Davis’ Electric Vehicle Research Center works with Mexican officials on heavy-duty fleet electrification, charger build out and second-hand EV trade. “We hope for a little bit more push for environmental goals.”
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June 2, 2024
Electric vehicles are thought to represent a partial, but important solution to realizing net-zero emissions goals. Toward this end, the European Union, China, Japan, South Korea, and several U.S. states have declared their intention to ban gasoline and diesel cars. But how realistic is it to move to a fully electric vehicle fleet? And how desirable is this goal? David Rapson joins EconoFact Chats to discuss these questions.
EconoFact Chats
May 28, 2024
Some envision flying cars, but for Dan Sperling, the future is electric.
UC Davis News
May 28, 2024
Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), Institute of Transportation Studies at University of California, Davis (ITS UC Davis), and Swaniti Global on May 23, 2024 announced a partnership to build a first-of-its-kind platform for Global South countries on critical minerals for energy transitions.
Sustainable Energy for All
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