This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
A new study by Scott Hardman and Gil Tal at the University of California, Davis has found that discontinuance occurs at a rate of 21% for California plug-in hybrid adopters and 19% for California battery electric vehicle adopters. of those that discontinued BEV ownership are unlikely to purchase a BEV in the future; 10.5%
A study by researchers at the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis finds that buyers of plug-in vehicles (PEVs) are substantially less satisfied with the dealer purchase experience than buyers of conventional vehicles—with the notable exception of Tesla buyers. In some cases, dealers outright discouraged PEV purchases.
Unitrans, the University of California, Davis transit system, has purchased six Xcelsior CHARGE battery-electric, forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses from NFI subsidiary New Flyer of America Inc. UC Davis utilized the California Department of General Services (DGS) contract for the procurement.
The University of California, Davis and the BMW Group released the largest publicly available study of electric-car users yet conducted, including more than 120 families who drove the fully electric MINI E automobile more than 1 million miles in California, New York and New Jersey from June 2009 to June 2010.
UPS plans to purchase approximately 700 liquefied natural gas (LNG) trucks and to build four refueling stations by the end of 2014. An initial investment of more than $18 million to build fueling stations will be supported by the purchase of the 700 LNG tractors and continued expansion of the natural gas fleet in the US.
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.
Research from the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California at Davis (ITS-Davis) suggests it will take more than a reasonable price and good information to get consumers to make more sustainable transportation choices, such as the purchase of a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). —Axsen and Kurani.
While this sounds like an all-too-logical conclusion, the study reports a 57% reduction in the benefits of driving the fuel efficient car for carbon emissions purely based on the purchase of the second vehicle. What we really wanted to do is see how households are making decisions when they purchase and own more than one vehicle.
program is paying nearly 10 times the projected price of carbon credits per ton in the best-case scenario, according to an analysis of the implied cost of carbon dioxide reductions under the program by UC Davis transportation economist Christopher Knittel. However, the. Economic Impact?
For example, the individual federal tax incentive of $2,500 to $7,500 for the purchase of an electric-drive vehicle only applies to vehicles with a battery pack larger than 4.0 Axsen et al. These findings have significant implications for policymakers, Axsen et al. kWh in capacity.
Elon Musk’s Boring Company has been linked to a 73-acre land purchase in Bastrop County, Texas. According to Bastrop County property records , Gapped Bass LLC purchased 73 acres of land in May. The strongest link Gapped Bass LLC has to TBC, however, is Steve Davis. The Teslarati team would appreciate hearing from you.
Jonn Axsen from Canada’s Simon Fraser University and Kenneth Kurani of the University of California, Davis, US surveyed three different types of American car buyers: conventional new vehicle buyers; hybrid vehicle buyers; and plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) buyers. —Jonn Axsen.
whereby Vitol would purchase 100% of the gasoline produced from MBFP’s industrial gasification and liquefaction facility located near. Other key elements include Selexol acid gas removal and Davy Process Technology (methanol synthesis). to purchase the CO 2 for use in their EOR operations. Medicine Bow, Wyoming. Earlier post.)
The most extreme case, Severin Borenstein and Lucas Davis found through their examination of tax return data from the IRS, is the program aimed at electric vehicles—the top income quintile received about 90% of all these credits. Source: Borenstein and Davis. —Borenstein and Davis (2015). —Borenstein and Davis.
Nikola Corporation announced that an institutional investor has agreed to make a $200-million investment in Nikola through the purchase of Convertible Senior Notes. Funds advised by Antara Capital LP have agreed to purchase $200 million aggregate amount of 8.00% / 11.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2026. —Nikola CFO Kim Brady.
A status review of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) ( earlier post ) for the period of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012 by Dr. Sonia Yeh at the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis and Julie Witcover found that regulated parties in the LCFS—i.e., cents per gallon of gasoline produced, they calculated.
Standardizing PEV batteries could reduce the purchase and ownership costs of PEVS, as well as addressing additional consumer issues such as maintenance and safety. University of California, Davis was awarded $900,000 to investigate emissions and leakages within California’s natural gas infrastructure.
Participants, such as car manufacturers, continue storing the data in their own data centers and only share specific data sets upon purchase directly with the buyer. —Phil Davis, President Hybrid IT, Chief Sales Officer, HPE.
On 20 April, Dr. Ken Kurani of the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies will present findings from a study commissioned by the California Air Resources Board (ARB) assessing consumer attitudes, barriers, and motivators toward purchasing zero, near-zero, and low-emission vehicles.
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. —author David Rapson, UC Davis. —Archsmith et al.
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. —Dan Sperling, director of the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies.
This program will be designed to integrate with CARB’s recently announced “one-stop-shop,” which focuses on incentives for the ZEV purchase itself, and together these offerings will provide customers support throughout the entire purchase process.
Although consumers will spend far less on their combined vehicle and plus fuel purchase costs, they won’t ever experience the higher net costs that would have occurred under a no-fuel-economy-improvement case. Lew Fulton (2013) How vehicle fuel economy improvements can save $2 trillion and help fund a long-term transition to plug-in vehicles.
Eviation, a leader in electric planes, has announced that Air New Zealand has signed a letter of intent to purchase the company’s Alise electric aircraft. Air New Zealand’s letter of intent outlines that the airline will purchase 23 Eviation Alise electric planes as part of its “Mission NextGen Aircraft” program.
A study by Jonn Axsen and Ken Kurani from the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis, estimates electricity and gasoline use under three recharging scenarios. These methods represent the purchase of a PHEV as the purchase of a strip of call options based on the price of liquid fuels. —Axsen and Kurani.
Electrify America will purchase an interest in an energy storage program with the utility company. Electric Bus Service – Causeway Connection: Electrify America’s investment enhances bus service between Sacramento and the City of Davis with 12 new electric buses that will run from the main campus to the UC Davis Health campus in Sacramento.
Most of the project’s power output has been contracted for sale to Progress Energy Florida under a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), with a small fraction available for sale on a merchant basis. White Construction and Ford, Bacon & Davis LLC are finalizing the engineering work necessary to enter the EPC phase of the project.
Participating scientists are from several DOE national laboratories, NASA and the University of California, Davis, along with many other academic and research institutions. The data they are collecting will help researchers improve computer models that simulate the climate and project climate changes.
This program will be designed to integrate with CARB’s recently announced ‘one-stop-shop,’ which focuses on incentives for the ZEV purchase itself, and together these offerings will provide customers support throughout the entire purchase process. TDI diesel vehicles in the United States.
Chief Jeff Christiansen and Mayor Jeff Davis believes the Tesla Model 3 is a good investment, stating that the vehicle would save costs in the long run. The Linn Creek City Council approved the purchase of a Model 3 patrol vehicle recently. Chief Christiansen didn’t seem to make the decision lightly. “I
Volkswagen Truck & Bus will purchase from Navistar newly issued common shares representing, pro forma for such issuance, a 16.6% and an aggregate purchase price of approximately $256 million (or approximately €229 million at current exchange rates). stake (19.9% Closing is expected to be completed in late 2016 or early 2017.
Tran had falsely claimed a doctorate in statistics from UC Davis. He has a master’s degree in the subject from UC Davis. “Dr. With fewer new vehicles purchased, the average age of the fleet is increasing, leading to increased emissions. As a result, there are fewer cleaner trucks than the original staff projection.
Intel will purchase a 15% ownership stake in HERE, a global provider of high-definition digital maps and location-based services, from HERE’s current indirect shareholders: Audi AG, BMW AG and Daimler AG. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2017, after obtaining regulatory approvals.
UPS Chairman and CEO Scott Davis. UPS also purchased and deployed a hydraulic hybrid vehicle (HHV). They need accurate information from the industry in order to calculate their own CO 2 inventories and report them to the public. More than a third of its alternative fuel/technology vehicles operate outside the United States.
Daniel Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, member of the California Air Resources Board, and one of the co-creators of the California LCFS. Purchase credits from other regulated parties or use credits banked in previous years. Many options exist for meeting the standard.
LVMs also received extended service credit for allowing consumers to either extend a lease or exercise a purchase option at the end of a lease. For example, LVMs received early introduction multipliers for vehicles introduced in advance of requirements. Neither of these opportunities exists for IVMs under the current regulation.
Dr. Ken Kurani from the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) presented results from the latest in a series of electric drive consumer studies seeking to learn from consumers whether or not PHEVs are a good idea. The net effect of correcting this problem will be pressure on purchase prices first and operating costs second.
Because Neste purchases its feedstock from various Australian rendering plants, it calculated its pathway rendering emissions using data from a sampling of Australian rendering facilities. This is accomplished via reactive distillation using the Davy process.
Demand for battery-powered vehicles has risen steadily as advances in battery technology and production have brought the purchase prices of EVs down. Rapson, a professor at the University of California, Davis. “It (For more on what other countries’ plans are, check out the International Energy Agency’s Global EV Policy Explorer page.)
The city of Davis, California is putting two in. Our home city of Campbell has purchased one, and that’ll be installed in a few weeks. We actually have a bunch of PairTrees being installed this summer. We just sold a system in South Carolina to a commercial product company. There are several other cities pending as well.
Austin’s template calls for cities to initiate citizen petition drives and to encourage government and businesses to issue “soft” orders or expressions of interest in purchasing plug-ins. consumers purchased more than 200,000 hybrid vehicles, which have grown from two models in 2000 to 11 models today. Last year, U.S.
The culprit is more than 60 percent cut in purchase subsidies for NEVs in June of 2019. Non-monetary policies were such as preferential vehicle registration and a sales tax exemption have been as effective as the purchase subsidy at promoting NEV sales in some cities. Public charging posts in Guangzhou.
A paper by researchers at the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), University of California–Davis, to be published in the journal Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment , examines how California may reduce transportation greenhouse gas emissions 80% below 1990 levels by 2050 (&ldqou;80in50”). Yang et al.
Adding renewables to the grid also encourages economic development in West Virginia, as a growing number of companies require that a portion of the electricity they purchase be generated by renewable sources. MW), and Weirton, Hancock County (8.4 For every megawatt hour of solar renewable electricity generated, one SREC is produced.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 5,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content