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MAY 2, 2012

The UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation and the UC Davis Plug-In Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Research Center will host the World Electric Vehicle Cities and Ecosystems Conference on 5 May, just prior to EVS 26.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

The report says that reordering the US transportation system through policy and spending shifts to prioritize public and active transit while reducing car dependency can also ensure transit equity, protect ecosystems, respect Indigenous rights, and meet the demands of global justice.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

These are the observations in an in-depth study of the industry by management professors at the University of California, Davis, and Dartmouth College. —Hemant Bhargava, a professor of technology management at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. Bhargava, UC Davis Graduate School of Management; Jonas Boehm and Geoffrey G.

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APRIL 9, 2011

Yunshi Wang, Jacob Teter and Daniel Sperling from the University of California Davis Institute of Transportation Studies report that the growth rate of China’s vehicle population could reach 13-17% per year—roughly twice the 6-11% widely forecast for annual growth. Their analysis is published in the journal Energy Policy.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

Global technology and power solutions leader Cummins Inc. —Amy Davis, Cummins Vice President and President of New Power, the company’s alternative power business. They can also be used to decarbonize multiple sectors including zero-emission transportation, industrial processes and the green chemicals sector.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

will open a new facility in Herten, Germany, which will initially focus on the assembly of fuel cell systems for global transportation leader Alstom’s hydrogen trains. Four testing stations will supplement existing global fuel cell and hydrogen production research and development capabilities. Cummins Inc.

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MARCH 17, 2020

Co-author Steven Davis, UCI associate professor of Earth system science, noted that earlier studies on the impact of climate warming and ambient ozone on the state’s ability to grow food have focused on high-volume staple crops such as wheat, soy and rice. —Steven Davis. Mueller, N.D., Burney, J.A.

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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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JUNE 17, 2016

Current ozone levels in the San Joaquin Valley are predominantly caused by local emissions, but as air quality standards become lower, any contribution from global ozone levels needs to be understood. An ozonesonde is a balloon which measures ozone from the surface to more than 10 kilometers above the ground.

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MAY 5, 2021

Published in Nature Energy on April 26th by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, the study found that PHEV buyers in California were abandoning the technology at a rate of […]. Electric vehicles are one way to carbon neutrality.

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APRIL 15, 2016

On 14 April, the transport ministers of all 28 EU member states signed the Amsterdam Declaration , laying down agreements on the steps necessary for the development of connected, autonomous driving technology in the EU. Dutch transport minister Melanie Schultz. Amsterdam Declaration. to ensure data protection and privacy.

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MARCH 23, 2010

Mitloehner said that focusing on meat and dairy is not only scientifically inaccurate, but also distracts society from embracing effective solutions to global climate change. Transportation creates an estimated 26% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the US, whereas raising cattle and pigs for food accounts for about 3%, he said.

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MARCH 25, 2014

Honda marked the opening of Honda Smart Home US, showcasing technologies that enable zero net energy living and transportation, including Honda’s home energy management system (HEMS), a proprietary hardware and software system that monitors, controls and optimizes electrical generation and consumption throughout the home’s microgrid.

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JANUARY 24, 2019

Sacramento’s SMUD, the US’ sixth-largest community-owned, not-for-profit, electric service provider, will develop a model for a future Mobility Center that will foster innovation in the clean transportation sector and serve as a catalyst for carbon reduction and inclusive economic development.

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JANUARY 30, 2010

These findings show that stratospheric water vapor represents an important driver of decadal global surface climate change. Over the last century, global average surface temperatures have warmed by about 0.75 °C (0.42 °C), with much of it occuring the last half. Credit: Solomon et al., Click to enlarge. —Solomon et al.

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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. California accounts for more than 50% of sales in the United States.

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JANUARY 5, 2010

Global GHG mitigation potential from aviation and marine transportation. Aviation and marine transportation combined are responsible for approximately 5% of total GHG emissions in the United States and 3% globally and are among the fastest growing modes in the transportation sector. Source: McCollum et al.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Ethylene—a valuable commodity two-carbon chemical that can be oligomerized into transportation fuels—is the most widely produced petrochemical feedstock globally. Interested companies include those in the business of producing ethylene or transportation fuels, as well as firms that build photobioreactors.

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JUNE 18, 2013

Myriant Corporation, a global renewable chemicals company, announced the successful start-up at its flagship bio-succinic acid plant located in Lake Providence, Louisiana. Globally, the annual worldwide market for succinic acid is estimated at approximately $7.5 billion in new and existing applications.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2012

trillion) through to 2050 and can help cut the world’s road transport energy use and CO 2 emissions by nearly half in that same time, by improving vehicle fuel economy, according to an opinion paper recently published by the Commonwealth Advisory Bureau (CAB) and sponsored by the Global Fuel Economy Initiative (GFEI). disaster.

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JULY 5, 2011

It is rapidly expanding energy use, mainly driven by fossil fuels, that explains why humanity is on the verge of breaching planetary sustainability boundaries through global warming, biodiversity loss, and disturbance of the nitrogen-cycle balance and other measures of the sustainability of the earth’s ecosystem.

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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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MARCH 16, 2024

Globally, according to research by the Rocky Mountain Institute , EVs will comprise two-thirds of the world’s car sales by 2030. Thirty-three countries are signatories of the Global Commercial Vehicle Drive to Zero agreement for heavy- and medium-duty vehicles like tractor-trailers, buses, and box trucks. degrees C (2.7 degrees F).”

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NOVEMBER 8, 2013

The GFEI, a partnership of international agencies and top energy policy experts, suggests that these cost savings could in part be used to help offset the costs of developing a global market for electric vehicles over this time frame, since the savings are estimated to be at least four times bigger than these costs. —Lew Fulton.

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JANUARY 21, 2014

China is responsible for only a small percentage of the annual pollution in the US, but powerful global winds known as “westerlies” can push airborne chemicals across the ocean in days, particularly during the spring, causing dangerous spikes in contaminants. —Steve Davis, UC Irvine Earth system scientist and co-author.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Caroline Hammer, a global security analyst at the risk intelligence company RANE , said tourists should interpret the advisories as warnings to exercise caution and avoid specific hot spots for crime, but not as a blanket rule to restrict their travel anywhere in the region. What’s behind the warning for the Bahamas?

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JULY 22, 2010

In a new report released by the California Air Resources Board, scientists from the University of California at Davis and Berkeley estimate that rising temperatures from climate change will increase ozone levels in California’s major air basins. Kleeman of UC Davis, lead author. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 5, 2017

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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JANUARY 9, 2017

However, notes a team from the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis and CATARC (China Automotive Technology and Research Center), just the year before PEV sales were stagnant, despite large subsidies and incentives. China-based BYD is now the world’s leading manaufacturer of PEVs, jumping ahead of Nissan and Tesla.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

International cooperation will be necessary to resolve problems in maritime and air transport, but action on cars and trucks can be taken at a national or state level. International cooperation will be necessary to resolve problems in maritime and air transport, but action on cars and trucks can be taken at a national or state level.

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MAY 15, 2012

It is a scientific partnership led by Lawrence Berkeley Lab and includes the Sandia National Laboratories, the University of California campuses of Berkeley and Davis, the Carnegie Institution for Science, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Different bacterial responses to ionic liquid. Khudyakov, Patrik D’haeseleer, Sharon E.

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MARCH 5, 2013

Worldwide, light-duty vehicle (LDV) fuel economy is not improving fast enough to cut average fuel use by 50% for all new cars by 2030, according to a working paper issued by the Global Fuel Economy Initiative ( GFEI ). mpg US) global average by 2030 for new cars. Globally, cars with medium-sized engines (1.2 Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 17, 2009

California’s global warming legislation requires reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. These models are not suited for the policy analysis demands in the era of global climate change, she concludes. Box plots of combined policy VMT reductions by time horizon. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 8, 2009

Jet A fuel is the leading source of UPS global enterprise CO 2 emissions at 52.6%, followed by diesel at 32.7%. four-million-square-foot heart of UPS’s global air network. customers rely on the transportation and logistics industry as part of their supply chains. UPS Chairman and CEO Scott Davis. —UPS MMT in 2007.customers

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JULY 29, 2014

In March 2014, Honda launched Honda Smart Home US at the University of California, Davis, which seeks to investigate the integration of the home with distributed renewable energy, the smart grid and the electric vehicle. —Dan Bowermaster, EPRI manager of Electric Transportation. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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JUNE 13, 2009

This standard is the required QMS standard for the global automotive supplier base. This certification is key for our focus on the transportation industry. Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis, Research Report UCD-ITS-RR-09-08. Charlie Duncheon, President and CEO of EIG America, Inc.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

If we are adept in this time of change, this region will emerge stronger than ever as the primary source of low carbon technology for the global marketplace. —Dr Dr Geoff Davis, MIRA’s Business Development Director. The LCVTP brings Advantage West Midlands’ investment in low carbon vehicle initiatives £41.2 million (US$64 million).

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