Green Car Congress
JANUARY 6, 2020
Since 2011 , I have periodically examined changes in the proportion of persons with a driver’s license as a function of age. The previous study compared data for 1983 (as the baseline) with those for 2008, 2011, 2014, and 2017. That was followed by modest increases in the licensure for all age groups between 2014 and 2017.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 11, 2020
In the previous analysis , I examined the data from 1984 through 2017. The focus in this series is on vehicles per person, as opposed to total number of vehicles (which depends, in part, on the continuously increasing size of the U.S. The main findings (summarized in the table below) are as follows: Vehicles per person increased by 18.2%
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Clean Fleet Report
APRIL 13, 2025
2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV – Bolty When I heard about GMs plan to produce a new EVwith a much better rangeI was thrilled. I arranged to pick up the car a couple of days later, in the first week of January of 2017. The post Personal: My Ongoing EV Adventure first appeared on Clean Fleet Report. feet of cargo capacity.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
In this analysis, I compare the age composition of buyers of new light-duty vehicles (cars and light trucks) in 2007 and 2017. The main findings are as follows: Middle-aged persons purchased proportionally fewer vehicles in 2017 than in 2007 (down from 29% to 14% for those 35 to 44, and from 24% to 20% for those 45 to 54).
Green Car Congress
MARCH 6, 2014
Toyota’s i-Road 3-wheeled electronic personal mobility vehicle (PMV) ( earlier post ) has begun public road trials in Toyota City, Japan as part of “Ha:mo”, Toyota’s optimized urban transport system. Later this year, i-Road vehicles will be part of a vehicle-sharing project in Grenoble, France, that will last until 2017.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 2, 2019
The analysis used the following data for cars and for SUVs: Average real-world vehicle fuel economy for model year 2017 vehicles (based on the information from the Environmental Protection Agency ). Average vehicle occupancy in 2017 for privately operated household vehicles (from Oak Ridge National Laboratory ).
Green Car Congress
MARCH 7, 2019
The latest edition of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) annual Automotive Trends Report finds that Model Year (MY) 2017 vehicle fuel economy was 24.9 Most large manufacturers used banked credits, along with technology improvements, to maintain compliance in model year 2017. Estimated Real-World CO 2 and Fuel Economy.
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