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ASU research finds that Cash for Clunkers rebates were too high to prompt car upgrades

Green Car Congress

New research from a team at Arizona State University shows that even when receiving a big rebate from the government, consumers won’t always behave in expected ways. It was a great opportunity to get some insights from this natural experiment about trade-in promotions and the effect of trade-in rebates that nobody had looked at before.

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Study finds deploying EVs isn’t enough—reaching emission goals requires early retirement of polluting trucks – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Pathways to zero emissions in California’s heavy-duty transportation sector ,” written by researchers from Stanford and Arizona State Universities and published in Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, finds that the state must also remove older, less efficient vehicles from the roads in order to meet emissions targets.