Green Car Congress
JULY 13, 2021
Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and the University of California, Davis Institute of Transportation Studies analyzed four scenarios to understand how COVID-19 and other political, economic, social and technological drivers may impact transportation activity and global oil demand.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 14, 2009
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. do not discuss the merits of the program in terms of stimulus. However, the.
Plugs and Cars
JUNE 4, 2009
I suspect without some explicit direction from the top, prodded from those of us below, the automakers will do everything to achieve the requirements with conventional vehicles, eschewing the greater near term cost and long-term benefit of transitioning toward plug-in electric drive components and batteries. No plug, no deal!
Green Cars News
AUGUST 18, 2009
With payments of up to $4,500 for motorists willing to swap their ageing gas guzzling vehicles for more fuel efficient ones, it seemed like a ‘can’t lose’ scheme with consumers getting cheaper cars, the automotive industry enjoying more sales and the environment boosted by a reduction in harmful emissions. So is this scheme green at all?
Revenge of the Electric Car
FEBRUARY 18, 2010
Around the same time, General Motors will introduce the Chevrolet Volt, a vehicle able to go 40 miles on electricity before its small gasoline engine kicks in. He predicted that 10 percent of the cars sold would be electric vehicles by 2020. Much of the attention on electric cars has been on the vehicles’ design, cost and performance.
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