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April 6, 2024
The Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California Davis has highlighted a potentially significant but overlooked use of bicycles and other forms of micromobility.
Cycling West
March 27, 2024
Tesla and China built a symbiotic relationship, with credits, workers and parts that made Mr. Musk ultrarich. Now, his reliance on the country may give Beijing leverage. Yunshi Wang, director of the China Center for Energy and Transportation at the University of California, Davis, weighs in.
The New York Times
March 25, 2024
“Now, automakers have a few more years to finalize their full electric portfolio,” says Gil Tal, who directs the Plug-In Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Research Center at UC Davis.
Wired
March 22, 2024
Despite the EPA’s decision to extend the timeline for implementing its new emission limits, Alan Jenn, a researcher at the Electric Vehicle Research Center at the University of California, Davis, remains confident that the new standards will “nevertheless push electrification nationwide.”
The Conversation
March 22, 2024
In recent years, Toyota has lobbied hard against stricter pollution regulations that favored electric vehicles over the auto giant’s hybrid vehicles, but experts question their reasoning. Gil Tal, director of the Electric Vehicle Research Center at the University of California, Davis’s Institute of Transportation Studies, said that while hybrids were “very efficient on lowering emissions a little bit, they’re not very effective in bringing us to zero emissions in the long run.”
The New York Times
March 21, 2024
The issue, according to Gil Tal, director of the EV Research Center at the University of California-Davis, US, is that these municipalities depend on fuel taxes to pay for public infrastructure and services.
BBC
March 14, 2024
“Initially, we were surprised that there was so much use of Uber and Lyft,” says Caroline Rodier, a researcher at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies.
Next City
March 14, 2024
California-inspired renewable diesel is booming across the country. As the industry grows, however, it’s having some unintended consequences.
Los Angeles Times
March 10, 2024
If Toyota embraced EVs sooner, it would push others in the same direction, said Daniel Sperling, founding director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California.
CNN
March 4, 2024
The Clean Mobility Options and the Sustainable Transportation Equity Project programs have institutional barriers to distributing funding and facilitating projects, according to research by UC Berkeley Othering & Belong Institute and UC Davis Institute of Transportaion Studies.
The Daily Californian
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