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UC Davis, ITDP report finds shared mobility essential for realizing full benefits of electrification and automation

Green Car Congress

A new report from a team at the University of California, Davis, and the New York-based nonprofit Institute for Transportation & Development Policy (ITDP) has concluded that shared mobility is a critical enabler for realizing the benefits of electrification and autonomous driving.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Davis Illingworth, a senior vice president with Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., By 2020, [Masatami Takimoto, executive vice president in charge of powertrain development] said he expected hybrids to become the standard drivetrain and account for "100 percent" of Toyotas vehicles.He said in a statement.

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