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MIT Study on EVs
Source: Can today’s EVs make a dent in climate change? | MIT News
The study, which found that a wholesale replacement of conventional vehicles with electric ones is possible today and could play a significant role in meeting climate change mitigation goals, was published today in the journal Nature Energy by Jessika Trancik, the Atlantic Richfield Career Development Associate Professor in Energy Studies at MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), along with graduate student Zachary Needell, postdoc James McNerney, and recent graduate Michael Chang SM ’15.
“Roughly 90 percent of the personal vehicles on the road daily could be replaced by a low-cost electric vehicle available on the market today, even if the cars can only charge overnight,” Trancik says, “which would more than meet near-term U.S. climate targets for personal vehicle travel.” Overall, when accounting for... -
Electric Vehicle Shopping Experience
Source: https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploads-wysiwig/1371%20Rev%20Up%20EVs%20Report_09_web%20FINAL.pdf
To learn more about what is working well and what could be improved in
the plug-in electric vehicle (EV)1 marketplace, the Sierra Club launched
Rev Up EVs — the first-ever multi-state investigation into the consumer
EV shopping experience. Based on surveys from Sierra Club volunteers
who called or visited 308 different auto dealerships and stores across ten
states to inquire about EVs, we found that there is tremendous room for
improvement among the dealerships and the automakers.
. . .
Note that we did not include Toyota, Cadillac,
or Mitsubishi in our study because they currently sell such
low numbers of EVs each month nationwide, and we did
not expect our volunteers to find EVs at many of their...
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