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A Pivot to China Saved Elon Musk. It Also Binds Him to Beijing.
The New York Times

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.

Here Comes the Flood of Plug-In Hybrids
Wired

“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.

How Toyota, a Laggard on Electric Cars, Got Its Fight Back
The New York Times

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.”

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