Accelerating Commercialization of Alternative and Renewable Fuels and Vehicles

Alternative and renewable fueled vehicle stakeholders, including governments, the auto industry, fuel suppliers, and consumers, face an uphill challenge in developing a sustainable market. A serious handicap for most stakeholders is the lack of up-to-date data and analysis of consumers' knowledge, beliefs, experience, and valuation of successive generations of alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) and infrastructure design. This project will implement a recurring market survey to inform current and future efforts of California state agencies and AFV/PEV (plug-in electric vehicles) stakeholders on the most effective ways to expand the market for alternative and renewable fuels and vehicles in California and the US. The goal of this project is to develop, on a recurring basis, deep market intelligence about US (and California) car buyers for the AFV/PEV stakeholder community, automakers, utility sector and local, regional, state, and federal agencies., The project will disseminate this intelligence to stakeholders through workshops and "state of the AFV/PEV market" reports that will help them in meeting California AFV/PEV goals, steering a course that results in the greatest market growth and therefore the greatest reductions in CO₂ possible, and producing a sustainable market. The market analysis will measure the effect of policies such as incentives to buyers and drivers like rebates, high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane access, tax incentives. Such analysis can optimize Federal and California public investments to increase cost effectiveness of those investments and accelerate the market.

• Record URL:
  http://ncst.ucdavis.edu/project/ucd-cec-2-2

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $344546.00
• Contract Numbers:

  DTRT13-G-UTC29

• Sponsor Organizations:

  California Energy Commission

  1516 Ninth Street, MS-29
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95814
• Performing Organizations:

  University of California, Davis

  1 Shields Ave
  CA, 95616    United States

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 
• Principal Investigators:

  Kurani, Ken

• Start Date: 20140630
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• Source Data: RiP Project 37026

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air quality; Alternate fuels; Electric vehicles; Motor vehicle industry; Pollutants; Renewable energy sources; Sustainable development; Vehicle fleets
• Uncontrolled Terms: Commercialization
• Subject Areas: Economics; Passenger Transportation; Policy; Research; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01554049
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Center for Sustainable Transportation
• Contract Numbers: DTRT13-G-UTC29
• Files: UTC, RiP
• Created Date: Feb 25 2015 1:00AM