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August 30, 2024
Researchers at UC Davis have found that more than half of ride-hail trips in California replace walking, biking, carpooling, and public transit trips, or are trips that otherwise wouldn’t happen. They have ideas to make it more sustainable.
Streetsblog Cal
August 29, 2024
Fraser Shilling, who directs UC Davis’s Road Ecology Center, said vehicle collisions with large animals have cost Californians $1.6 billion since 2016 — including vehicle repairs, hospital bills, and insurance costs.
LAist
August 28, 2024
“The study was funded primarily by the California Air Resources Board. Additional funding was provided by the 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program of UC Davis.”
UC Davis News
August 24, 2024
“Oregon isn’t alone in its effort to track roadkill this way. There have also been projects in Europe, Utah and California. Fraser Shilling is the director of the Road Ecology Center at the University of California, Davis. He’s been asking people to upload roadkill data for 15 years now, and says it’s been used to make some interesting findings around the state.”
SDPB/NPR
August 22, 2024
“According to Dr. Gil Tal, UC Davis professor and director of the Electric Vehicle Research Center,, one or two downed chargers might not matter, “but if an entire station is down, that’s a different thing.” Dr. Tal reviewed the data and findings that ChargerHelp collected and wrote the foreword to the company’s report. He is certain that the biggest contributor to the issues ChargerHelp identified is straightforward. “The main issue, the reason for the low reliability, is that it’s a new technology,” Dr. Tal says.”
Pocket Lint
August 19, 2024
“If you had one strongly opposed, then you’d run into problems,” said Dan Sperling, a former CARB board member who himself advocated for a stronger cap earlier this year than what CARB landed on.
Politico
August 16, 2024
In order to combat consumer hesitancy, electric vehicles need to be offered at every price range, according to Alan Jenn, an assistant professor at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies.
ABC News
August 14, 2024
“The previous Trump administration tried to remove California’s waiver, and that is the avowed goal of Donald Trump today,” Daniel Sperling, director of the Institute for Transportation Studies at UC Davis, told CalMatters ahead of the hearing. “So gaining the waivers before November is important.”
CalMatters
August 13, 2024
“Elon has his business interests that he’s going to definitely support. So one would imagine he would definitely want to keep the waiver,” said Dan Sperling, a former CARB board member who directs the Institute for Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis.
Politico
August 12, 2024
“He actually banished anyone from UC Davis and any of my grad students from coming to the Tesla factory,” said Dan Sperling, a former CARB board member who directs the Institute for Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis. “That’s how petty he was.”
Politico
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