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.
March 11, 2025
“The state of California is supposed to get couple of 100 millions out of it. The idea of this program was not just to send money to one company that install all the charges and get the best value for charger, but to create the capacity in every state,” said Gil Tal the Director of the Electric Vehicle Research Center.
KMPH
March 7, 2025
“For EVs in the U.S., this is somewhere between problematic and a disaster,” said Dan Sperling, a former California Air Resources Board member and director of the Institute for Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis.
POLITICO
March 1, 2025
“It’s certainly compelling,” said professor Daniel Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis. He noted that the fees could yield two benefits at once: “capturing the value” of curb space — a scarce resource in San Francisco — while also managing traffic.
SF Chronicle
February 26, 2025
“They would have been totally in the red if it were not for the incentives,” said Alan Jenn, an assistant professor at the Electric Vehicle Research Center at the Institute of Transportation Studies. “That is the thing that has really kept them afloat.”
Washington Post
February 19, 2025
“The charging experience can be very, very easy if you drive a Tesla. You just go there and you don’t need to figure out payment or anything, plug and leave.”
UC Davis Unfold Podcast
February 17, 2025
“’It was excessively ambitious,’ said Daniel Sperling, a professor at the University of California, Davis, who specializes in sustainable transportation, referring to the program that made truckers buy green rigs.”
The New York Times
February 15, 2025
“A report from the National Center for Sustainable Transportation found that a roadway capacity expansion matches the increase of vehicle miles traveled, long term.”
WDBO
February 11, 2025
“We’re joined by Gil Tal, professor of Environmental Science and Policy and the director of the EV Research Center director at UC Davis, and Jessica Caldwell, head of insights at Edmunds, an online resource for automotive inventory and information based in Santa Monica.”
LAist
February 7, 2025
“Fewer chargers may affect consumer appetite to buy electric vehicles in the long term, said Gil Tal, director of the Electric Vehicle Research …”
Washington Post
February 1, 2025
“… Susan Handy. How did that come about? “I had nothing to do with the decision to select Susan Handy and Alexandre Bayen for honorary doctorates.”
Delta TU Delft
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