Green Car Congress
JANUARY 7, 2021
No change between 1991 and 2004 (19.6 mpg for both years). A modest increase between 2004 and 2008 (from 19.6 Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. A modest increase between 1973 and 1991 (from 12.9
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 30, 2019
No change between 1991 and 2004 (19.6 mpg for both years). A modest increase between 2004 and 2008 (from 19.6 Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. A modest increase between 1973 and 1991 (from 12.9
Green Car Congress
JUNE 23, 2009
A new report released by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute ( UMTRI ) analyzes critical choices faced by automakers and finds that broad, deep, fast change is necessary for success in the context of the worst financial crisis in the history of the domestic automobile industry. mpg) and 50% (40.4 Fuel Economy.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 13, 2011
Proterra’s EcoRide BE-35 battery electric bus ( earlier post ) is averaging up to 24 mpg (diesel equivalent) in service, a more than 600% improvement over a typical diesel bus. was founded in 2004 and is currently manufacturing buses in a temporary plant in Greenville, S.C. —Jon Lauckner, president of GM Ventures. Proterra Inc.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 17, 2010
Working with the US Department of Energy, X PRIZE will award $10 million in September 2010 to the teams that win a competition for clean, production-capable vehicles that exceed 100 MPG energy equivalent (MPGe). Since 2004, public and private entities have invested more than $1.5 GLXP is the largest international prize ever offered.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 29, 2009
Professor Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley. Winner of the 2004 Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Planning. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University. CAFE mpg US (cars / trucks). Cervero, The Scandinavian Model: Strings of TODs, Urban Land, May, 2004, p.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
How does this sound: 100+ MPG in a regular vehicle? A PHEV with only a 20-mile all-electric range is 62% lower (see printed page 95 in the 2004 study ). At $3 for a gallon of gas, driving a non-hybrid car costs 8-20 cents/mile (depending on MPG). CalCars produced the worlds first plug-in Prius (the PRIUS+) in 2004.
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