Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 12, 2014
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.
Green Car Congress
JULY 9, 2013
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. —Jonn Axsen. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014045.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
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.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 8, 2013
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.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 14, 2011
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.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 13, 2011
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.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 20, 2014
The ZEV Regulation has been amended multiple times since its inception (most recently in January 2012 and October 2013) to reflect the pace of ZEV development, the emergence of new ZEV and near-ZEV technologies, and the need to provide clarifying language in an increasingly complex regulatory system.
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