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FEBRUARY 27, 2023
The US Department of Transportation announced that the National Center for Sustainable Transportation ( NCST ), housed at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), would receive $20 million to lead a group of seven universities studying transportation effects on the environment. Earlier post.)
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JUNE 26, 2020
Fewer wild animals, including threatened mountain lions, are becoming roadkill during shelter-in-place orders, according to a study on three states from the University of California, Davis. —report author Fraser Shilling, director of the UC Davis Road Ecology Center. If anything, there is usually an increase in spring.
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JULY 16, 2021
Unitrans, the University of California, Davis transit system, has purchased six Xcelsior CHARGE battery-electric, forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses from NFI subsidiary New Flyer of America Inc. UC Davis utilized the California Department of General Services (DGS) contract for the procurement.
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MAY 3, 2021
A new study by Scott Hardman and Gil Tal at the University of California, Davis has found that discontinuance occurs at a rate of 21% for California plug-in hybrid adopters and 19% for California battery electric vehicle adopters. UC Davis: National Center for Sustainable Transportation.” —Hardman and Tal. Hardman, S., & Tal, G.
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JUNE 18, 2020
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have found a link between traffic-related air pollution and an increased risk for changes in brain development relevant to neurodevelopmental disorders. Their study, based on rodent models, corroborates previous epidemiological evidence showing this association.
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DECEMBER 6, 2018
BMW is providing the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis with ten battery-electric, BMW i3 models for 18 months. Eight of the pre-owned vehicles will be available soon for UC Davis faculty and staff to rent through the campus’s UC Drive program, which is managed by the Fleet Services department.
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APRIL 3, 2019
San Jose-based Shanghai Automotive Industrial Corporation’s (SAIC) Innovation Center is demonstrating its automated, all-electric shuttle around a defined loop of the solar-panel-lined West Village community as part of an agreement between the auto company and UC Davis. —Maxwell Huang, president of SAIC USA and SAIC IC/VC.
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JULY 9, 2020
Replacing a gasoline-powered ride-hailing vehicle with an electric vehicle can deliver three times the carbon benefits of a personally owned electric vehicle, according to a study by a University of California, Davis, researcher of Uber and Lyft data. The paper is published in the journal Nature Energy.
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
The Davis Dam Grade, located along a stretch of State Route 68 between Las Vegas and the Hoover Dam, ascends from 550 feet elevation to 3,500 feet in just 11.4 The Davis Dam Grade test is the basis for an actual Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) test. It’s a demanding climb in any vehicle; but it’s more than that.
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JUNE 30, 2020
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JANUARY 4, 2019
A research report submitted to the California Legislature this week by the University of California, Davis’ Institute of Transportation Studies proposes switching EVs to a mileage-based road-funding fee (road user charge, RUC) while continuing to have gasoline-powered cars pay gasoline taxes.
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JANUARY 15, 2015
Dan Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis, and member of the California Air Resources Board, has been appointed the 2015 chair of the Transportation Research Board’s Executive Committee, which provides independent scientific advice to the nation on transportation issues.
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AUGUST 26, 2014
Zipcar has introduced a 2014 Honda Fit battery electric vehicle (EV) at The University of California, Davis’ (UC Davis) West Village , the largest planned zero net energy community in the United States. Zipcar has had vehicles on campus at UC Davis since 2009.
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DECEMBER 5, 2016
The US Department of Transportation recently selected the National Center for Sustainable Transportation, led by the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies, to receive a five-year grant totaling approximately $14 million ($2.8 million in the initial year) to advance a more sustainable transportation system.
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MAY 8, 2011
BP and Davy Process Technology announced collaborations with three EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) contractors to promote the commercialization of the BP/Davy Fischer-Tropsch (FT) Process. The BP/Davy fixed-bed FT process produces diesel, jet fuel (JP8) and naphtha from natural gas, biomass- or coal-derived syngas.
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JULY 24, 2018
A team at UC Davis has optimized the levulinic ester self-condensation reaction and the efficient conversion of its products—which are highly branched cyclopentadienes—into a mixture of substituted cyclopentanes with high octane ratings and excellent density and flow properties.
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JANUARY 14, 2012
A better understanding of how algae can be used to make biofuels is the aim of a new joint project between UC Davis and the University of Tokyo, Japan. UC Davis’ share will be about $1.5 The four grants, totaling $12 million (¥960 million), will be divided between the Japanese and US laboratories.
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JANUARY 9, 2023
The three Dome deposits that support the Mineral Resource Estimate are Cade, Davy and Heller. Lithium exploration drilling, local geology and structural interpretation of the Dome North Project area – Cade, Davy and Heller. Mt @ 1.16% Li 2 O containing 129,000 lithium tonnes.
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FEBRUARY 4, 2014
Researchers at the University of California, Davis have developed a process for the production of branched C 7 –C 10 hydrocarbons in the gasoline volatility range from biomass-derived levulinic acid with good yield, operating under relatively mild conditions, with short reaction times. Source: Mascal et al. Click to enlarge. gallons US).
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MARCH 20, 2014
Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies Ltd. (JM JM Davy), a global provider of advanced process technologies and Rennovia, Inc., JM Davy has its headquarters in London, England, a technology centre in Teesside in the North of England and a client support office in Beijing, China. on which its proprietary processes are based.
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FEBRUARY 19, 2013
The California Air Resources Board and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) released a report they commissioned by investigators at the University of California, Davis that looks at how to distinguish health effects caused by different types of fine and ultrafine airborne particulate matter (PM) from different sources.
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AUGUST 15, 2014
Researchers at the Institute of Transportation Studies University of California, Davis suggest that a number of positive trends indicate that we may be seeing the beginning of a real hydrogen transition in transportation, despite earlier starts that fizzled.
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OCTOBER 12, 2014
A study by researchers at the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis finds that buyers of plug-in vehicles (PEVs) are substantially less satisfied with the dealer purchase experience than buyers of conventional vehicles—with the notable exception of Tesla buyers. Cahill, Eric, Jamie Davies-Shawhyde, Thomas S.
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
The University of California, Davis, and the China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC) have entered a new agreement to work together to help speed the commercialization of plug-in and fuel cell electric cars in China. Signatories to the MOU include UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi and CATARC Director Hang Zhao.
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JUNE 2, 2010
The University of California, Davis announced the appointment of Professor Nicole Woolsey Biggart of the university’s Graduate School of Management to the Chevron Chair in Energy Efficiency. Professor Biggart joined the UC Davis Graduate School of Management in 1981, and she was awarded the Jerome J. Chevron Corp.
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OCTOBER 26, 2013
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, and Stanford University are proposing a reaction mechanism for one of the key steps in assembling the hydrogen-generating bacterial catalyst hydrogenase. They report on their work in a paper in the journal Science.
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APRIL 23, 2022
University of California, Davis (Davis, CA). Ohio State University (Columbus, OH) / Wilberforce University (Wilberforce, OH). University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL). University of California, Riverside (Riverside, CA). University of Texas, Austin (Austin, TX). University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada).
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NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Fuel economy for many conventional gasoline-fueled vehicles also continues to rise, according to Stacy Davis, who leads the fueleconomy.gov and Fuel Economy Guide projects at ORNL. Gone are the days when consumers who wanted the most fuel-efficient vehicle were urged to drive the smallest cars available, Davis said.
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JULY 17, 2012
Two professors from MIT and UC Davis have released a paper challenging the recent claims by the Renewable Fuel Association (RFA) and US Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack that ethanol production decreased gasoline prices by $0.89 Smith is an Associate Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis.
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AUGUST 14, 2009
BMW of North America and the University of California at Davis (UC Davis) are partnering on a year-long field study to determine the viability of electric vehicles. Tom Turrentine, director of UC Davis’ PHEV Research Center.
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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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JANUARY 30, 2023
The study, commissioned by the Climate and Community Project, a climate policy think tank, used UC Davis research (first spotted by Green Car Congress). Reducing the size of EV batteries and generally lowering levels of car ownership and use could have a significant environmental impact, according to a new study.
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SEPTEMBER 3, 2012
Hyundai Motor Group signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Davis to establish the Hyundai Center of Excellence. Hyundai will also work with top research institutions, including UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and Stanford University.
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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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JUNE 13, 2009
University of California, Davis researchers will receive $2.8 These environmental impacts are not fully documented, according to Tom Tomich, director of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis. million in new grants to study the use and impacts of escaped nitrogen from agricultural production.
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DECEMBER 30, 2013
Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis, Research Report UCD-ITS-RR-13-23. Cynthia Lin (2013) “ A Report on the Economics of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard and Cost Containment Mechanisms.” LCFS Policy'
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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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014
Fulton, UC Davis, examines how major changes in urban transport investments worldwide would affect urban passenger transport emissions as well as mobility by different income groups. —Lew Fulton, co-director of NextSTEPS Program at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies. The study by Michael Replogle, ITDP, and Lewis M.
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FEBRUARY 27, 2014
Chemists at the University of California, Davis think they''ve cracked it, though, using a new technique to make "biogasoline" from plant waste. Plant-based diesel has been available for many years now but making a true gasoline-like hydrocarbon from plant oils has proven a lot more difficult. Biodiesel will be familiar to many readers.'
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NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Station (Oak Harbor, OH). Energy Harbor is working to demonstrate a low-temperature electrolysis system at the Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Station. The project will be the first nuclear-powered clean hydrogen production facility in the US and will use the hydrogen to help cool the plant.
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NOVEMBER 18, 2011
The California Energy Commission has awarded $398,662 to the University of California, Davis to develop a forecasting tool that can be used by the state’s grid operator to respond to sudden changes in wind power production. UC Davis and its partners are providing an additional $109,364 in cost sharing funds.
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JUNE 13, 2011
The University of California, Davis and the BMW Group released the largest publicly available study of electric-car users yet conducted, including more than 120 families who drove the fully electric MINI E automobile more than 1 million miles in California, New York and New Jersey from June 2009 to June 2010.
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JANUARY 8, 2013
A research team from the University of California, Davis has engineered a 2,3-butanediol (23BD) biosynthetic pathway in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC7942 to establish design methods for efficient exogenous chemical production in cyanobacteria—a technology area that is still in its infancy compared with model fermentative organisms, (..)
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