Vehicle Content

California Roadkill Report Maps Costs, Hot Spots and Solutions

Katherine E Kerlin — August 07, 2019 - 9:34am

California drivers lost about $232 million to costs associated with wildlife-vehicle conflicts in 2018 and over $1 billion since 2015, according to the sixth annual Wildlife Vehicle Conflict report from the Road Ecology Center at the University of California, Davis.

The Diet Soda Effect of Buying a Fuel-Efficient Vehicle

Katherine E Kerlin — September 26, 2017 - 2:28pm

Like ordering a diet soda with a side of fries, households who buy a fuel-efficient vehicle tend to buy a bigger, more powerful second car to compensate. This tendency, combined with the changes in driving behavior that result, may reduce up to 60 percent of the expected future gas savings from increased fuel economy in two-car households. That is according to a recent white paper from the University of California, Davis, MIT and Yale.

Why the hydrogen fuel cell vehicle rollout may now succeed

IET WebDev — August 14, 2014 - 10:15am

A convergence of factors is propelling a market rollout of the hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, according to a new study from the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis. A key to hydrogen’s potential success is a new smart solution that clusters hydrogen fuel infrastructure in urban or regional networks, limiting initial costs and enabling an early market for the technology before committing to a full national deployment, suggests the study.