Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 11, 2017
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh have found that the air pollution and greenhouse gas costs of shipping crude by rail are nearly twice as large as those for oil pipelines. Idling, especially in major cities such as Chicago, is very costly. —Clay et al. 23852 doi: 10.3386/w23852.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
155 hours) ranked as the most congested two cities in the US—more than 15 hours per year more than the next most congested cities, Chicago (138 hours) and Seattle (138 hours). 2,161), Seattle ($1,932), Chicago ($1,920) and New York City ($1,859). had the lowest cost of congestion among the US cities studied at $304 per driver.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
The new guidance tool helps consumers compare the cost of owning different electric-drive powertrain technologies, as well as the environmental impact of these vehicles. Midwest EVOLVE launched in early 2017 with more than 60 partners, including automakers, utilities, state agencies, municipalities, dealerships, and dealer associations.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 25, 2019
Thaler, a professor at the University of Chicago, won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2017. The Cash for Clunkers data is important because it showed how much people upgraded when they bought the new car—defined as the difference between the cost of the new car and the inflation-adjusted value of the old car.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 14, 2017
Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. ZEV access initiatives (under development), and an additional approximately $25 million spent on the operational costs of running Electrify America (e.g., personnel, other business expenses).
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 18, 2012
In October, strategy consultancy Roland Berger updated its 2010 report on the Li-ion battery business in which it warned that only six to eight global players in rechargeable battery business would survive through to 2017. Wendt, Partner at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants’ Chicago office.
Charged EVs
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
Taking a component that was almost one-third of the volume cost of the bus and reducing that as much as possible was critical [in order to make] a competitive product. Secondarily, on that battery decision, I think we looked a lot at cost. The initiation of the Proterra Energy business unit was around late 2017.
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