article thumbnail

Light-truck sales declined less during the current pandemic than car sales

Green Car Congress

This note examines the sales of all new light-duty vehicles (cars and light trucks) in the United States in March, April, and May 2020—the first three months of the current pandemic—and compares them with the sales in February 2020. For example, light-truck sales decreased by 46.0% in February to 78.3%

St. Louis 494
article thumbnail

Anheuser-Busch completes first zero-emission beer delivery; BYD and Nikola

Green Car Congress

Anheuser-Busch, in partnership with Nikola Motor Company and BYD Motors LLC, completed its first Zero-Emission Beer Delivery in its hometown of St. Lohr Distributors then delivered the beer to the Enterprise Center, home of the St. Louis Blues, on a BYD electric truck. The 21 BYD electric trucks as well as a 958.5

St. Louis 381
article thumbnail

Differential effects of the current pandemic on the sales of light-duty vehicles and heavy trucks

Green Car Congress

Light-duty vehicles (cars and light trucks) are being purchased primarily by individuals, while heavy trucks by companies. I have shown recently that during this pandemic light-truck sales declined less than car sales.). Light-duty vehicles. by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research. Change from February 2020. March 2020.

Light 186
article thumbnail

WUSTL researchers demonstrate solar-panel-powered microbial electrosynthesis to produce n-butanol from light, CO2 and power

Green Car Congress

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered a new way to train microbes to make n -butanol. The resulting biofuel, n -butanol, is a carbon-neutral fuel alternative that can be used in blends with diesel or gasoline.

Solar 319
article thumbnail

Monthly changes in key transportation indexes

Green Car Congress

Sales of cars and light trucks. Sources of the underlying data: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (sales of cars and light trucks). They are adjusted for both population and 2020 being a leap year (all but price of gasoline) and for inflation (price of gasoline). Month-year. Price of gasoline. Vehicle miles traveled.

St. Louis 243
article thumbnail

Amazon begins deploying its Rivian electric delivery vehicles

Green Car Congress

Amazon has begun deploying its custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian for package delivery, with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities.

St. Louis 510
article thumbnail

Coltura: Federal & state EV policy & incentives must target gasoline superusers to achieve carbon emissions goals

Green Car Congress

Collectively, gasoline superusers burn nearly one-third of all gasoline consumed in the US by light-duty vehicles. Louisiana, Wyoming, and Mississippi are the states with the highest concentration of superusers, while Houston, Detroit, St. Louis have the highest concentration of superusers among US metro areas.

Gasoline 397