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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The University of California, Davis, and the China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC) have entered a new agreement to work together to help speed the commercialization of plug-in and fuel cell electric cars in China. Signatories to the MOU include UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi and CATARC Director Hang Zhao.

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AUGUST 2, 2009

Changes in the attributes (clockwise from upper left, weight, power, fuel economy and torque) of the Honda Accord over time as an example of fleet trends in the US. In contrast, fuel economy actually increased by 15% during that period. Knittel, 2009. Click to enlarge. Knittel, Christopher R.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

—Amy Davis, Cummins Vice President and President of New Power, the company’s alternative power business. Already a leader in advanced diesel, natural gas and battery technologies, Cummins is rapidly growing its capabilities to support the overall hydrogen economy.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Lew Fulton, Co-Director, NextSTEPS Program at the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California at Davis. Meanwhile, significant gains in vehicle fuel economy over the coming decades are possible and very much needed globally in order to address pressing issues of climate change, energy security and sustainable mobility.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

A study by researchers at UC Davis suggests that a properly designed vehicle scrappage (i.e., Cash for Clunkers”) program could maximize greenhouse gas emissions savings by using fuel-economy based eligibility requirements rather than age-based requirements. Earlier post.). Allan et al.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

The federal government’s Cash for Clunkers aims to stimulate the economy, provide relief for automobile manufacturers and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Knittel did not analyze the program’s other key objectives: stimulating the economy and providing relief for automobile manufacturers. However, the. pollutants.I

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MARCH 2, 2010

However, research suggests that most consumers have little experience or understanding of electric drive, and have difficulty quantifying their valuation of fuel economy. Willingness-to-pay presumes consumers have preferences about the attributes available in a given choice. Axsen et al.

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JULY 29, 2021

These experts include Ballard Power Systems, Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District, UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies, Railpower Tech LLC, OptiFuel Systems LLC, Valley Vision, Velocity Strategies, and Frontier Energy.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

An analysis by a team from the University of California, Davis, MIT and Yale suggests that households that buy a fuel-efficient vehicle tend to compensate for that purchase by buying a bigger, more powerful second vehicle. This unintended effect could erode goals of fuel economy standard policies by up to 60%. Just as Anderson et al.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This facility will better position us to provide critical support to customers in Europe and strategically strengthen our position to be a leader in shaping tomorrow’s hydrogen economy. —Amy Davis, President of New Power at Cummins.

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DECEMBER 8, 2015

Worldwide, the vehicle fleet is not making enough progress on fuel economy and is failing to reach global targets aimed at reducing CO 2 emissions, cutting oil consumption and improving energy efficiency according to a new report from the Global Fuel Economy Initiative (GFEI) ( earlier post ) released at the Paris COP21 Climate Summit.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

—Amy Davis, Vice President and President, New Power at Cummins. This includes development of a solution that is highly manufacturable and scalable with a proven range of 300 miles or more and improved fuel economy over current heavy-duty trucks.

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MAY 12, 2022

Our collaboration in this market is an important milestone for both companies as we work to accelerate the shift to a carbon-free economy. —Amy Davis, Vice President and President of New Power at Cummins. Hydrogen fuel cells are a promising solution for the demanding requirements of heavy-duty trucking.

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MARCH 26, 2014

Most of us think "Honda" and bring up economy cars, perhaps lawnmowers, or even portable generators. Yesterday, though, the Japanese carmaker opened its Honda Smart Home US in Davis, California--demonstrating its ideas for how Americans might live a zero-carbon life in the 21st Century. Complete houses aren''t usually on the list.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Cummins’ three-year project aims to automate the manufacturing of SOECs to make production of the electrolyzer systems more efficient, reducing capital costs and facilitating the scale-up of the hydrogen economy. —Amy Davis, Vice President and President of New Power at Cummins.

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MARCH 5, 2013

Vehicle size, a key determinant of fuel economy, has shown a reduction in OECD countries, while the non-OECD trend is toward bigger vehicles. The analysis, an update of an earlier work using data from 2010 and 2011, found that the global average for light-duty vehicle fuel economy was 7.2 Source: GFEI. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 14, 2018

With 75% of the fleet expected to serve low-income and disadvantaged communities, Envoy provides equitable transportation for drivers running personal errands, as well those looking to participate in the gig economy and generate income that is 30% higher than the minimum wage.

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JULY 13, 2021

Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and the University of California, Davis Institute of Transportation Studies analyzed four scenarios to understand how COVID-19 and other political, economic, social and technological drivers may impact transportation activity and global oil demand.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Switching from diesel fuel to natural gas may hold advantages for the US heavy-duty trucking fleet, but more needs to be done to reach the full environmental benefits, according to a new white paper released by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, and Rice University.

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DECEMBER 23, 2021

This joint venture brings together Cummins’ and Sinopec’s innovative spirits and pursuit of a more sustainable tomorrow, enabling a carbon-free economy. —Amy Davis, Vice President and President of New Power at Cummins. As a pioneer of the hydrogen economy, it has a mature hydrogen energy industry chain.

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OCTOBER 18, 2020

Partners include Algenesis, BASF, Pepsi, Reef, and University of California – Davis. The following projects were selected under Topic 3: BOTTLE Consortium Collaborations to Tackle Challenges in Plastic Waste: University of Delaware (Newark, DE) - Circular Economy of Composites enabled by TUFF Technology – DOE Funding: $2,499,983.

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MARCH 3, 2021

Published in The RAND Journal of Economics and funded by the California Air Resources Board, Archsmith collaborated with Kenneth Gillingham of Yale University, Christopher Knittel of MIT, and David Rapson of the UC Davis Department of Economics to examine vehicle purchasing behaviors using California-based data. —James Archsmith.

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JULY 11, 2018

—Austin Brown, Executive Director of the UC Davis Policy Institute for Energy, Environment and the Economy. Reusing batteries as backup for charging is a win-win for the economics and the environmental benefits of EVs. The second-life battery system integrates two BMW i3 battery packs into a single housing.

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DECEMBER 11, 2010

The 2011 Ford F-150 EcoBoost won in a head-to-head powertrain performance exercise while towing a 9,000-pound (4,082 kg) trailer against the Chevy Silverado and Dodge RAM with much larger displacement V8 engines during a demonstration staged by Ford near Davis Dam in Arizona. The head-to-head contest was the latest phase of the new V6 3.5-liter

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JUNE 30, 2014

EDI was co-founded by Professor Andy Frank from UC Davis—a key figure in the development of the PHEV concept and technology—in 2006. EDI’s solution can improve the fuel economy of a conventional CNG-powered medium-duty truck by more than 40%, the company said.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

At the University of Oxford’s Department of Engineering Science, Dr. Martin Davy will lead the project on compression ignition in diesel engines. We are on a very positive trajectory to reduce vehicle emissions and improve fuel economy.

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AUGUST 6, 2014

However, increased dilution leads to increased combustion instability resulting in reduced fuel-economy benefits. Davis (UC Davis), R.Sankaran (ORNL). Some strategies to reduce emissions include running the engine highly dilute, with excess air or with recirculated exhaust gases as part of the combustion charge. Description.

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

Staff also briefed the Board on staff’s assessment of the effects of the economy on emissions from In-Use On-Road and In-Use Off-Road regulations. Tran had falsely claimed a doctorate in statistics from UC Davis. He has a master’s degree in the subject from UC Davis. “Dr. Economy alone does not achieve needed PM reductions.

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JUNE 8, 2017

At the close of the meeting, Governor Brown and Chair Nichols agreed to establish a new working group through the China-US ZEV Policy Lab at UC Davis to expand cooperation with Chinese zero-emission vehicle and battery technology companies. We need a great leap forward. —Governor Brown. [In

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APRIL 22, 2021

Those policy options, when combined, could lead to a zero-carbon transportation system by 2045, while also improving equity, health and the economy. The University of California demand study was conducted by researchers from the UC Institute of Transportation Studies , a network with branches at UC Davis, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, and UCLA.

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MARCH 9, 2010

—Darryl Davis, Boeing Phantom Works president. The Ford engine earned better than expected fuel economy while demonstrating complete airflow and torque control across the engine's operating range. The jig load assembly, model of a liquid-hydrogen engine and fuselage skins for Boeing’s Phantom Eye demonstrator in St.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2009

—Scott Davis, manager for Eaton’s Hybrid Power business unit in North America. When electric torque is blended with engine torque, the stored energy is used to improve fuel economy and vehicle performance for a given speed or used to operate the vehicle with electric power only.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

The demand for oil in 2015 will drop to its lowest level since 2002 because of an oversupply of crude and stagnant economies in China and Europe, according to OPEC’s latest forecast. by Andy Tully of Oilprice.com. And that’s just one of several sour estimates. OPEC’s monthly report said demand for the cartel’s oil will fall to 28.9

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JUNE 28, 2018

You can demand that the country cuts CO 2 production by 60%, but to do this successfully you need to have a good idea of how to cut pollution at a local level without devastating local economies. Rather than creating low-carbon pathways at a national level, we need a pathway for each city. 6, eaaq0390 doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaq0390.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

A program like this also continues to move us toward a carbon free economy by enabling higher levels of renewable generation to be integrated with the grid. This first-of-a-kind program will help address peak energy demands, minimize impacts to the grid and support the expansion of EV charging in our community.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

Huq, Davis R. Hafenstine, Nabila A. Conklin, Matthew R. Wiatrowski, Xiangchen Huo, Qianying Guo, Kinga A. Unocic and Derek R. Vardon (2020) “Single-phase catalysis for reductive etherification of diesel bioblendstocks” Green Chemistry doi: 10.1039/D0GC00939C.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

In their study, they used three different alternative powertrain/fuel models: less aggressive, moderately aggressive and very aggressive, applied across four developed economies (United States, Western Europe, Japan, and South Korea) and four developing economies (Brazil, Russia, India, and China). evolutionary thinking.

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