High octane gasolines, includang "premium" and midgrade, steadily gained market share in the United States during the 1980s, increasing from 12% of the total gasohne market in 1983 to 15% in 1985 and 30% in 1989. This 18% increase in market share represents an aggregate revenue transfer from...

Electric vehicles (EV) are periodically promoted as quiet, pollution-free alternatives  gasoline vehicles. They have failed each time because of inferior performance and high costs. In this paper, we conduct an updated and detailed evaluation of the performance, costs, environmental impacts,...

The neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV) is a small, electric car designed for low-speed, local trips in neighborhoods and urban areas. The market potenttal for NEVs depends m part on the availability of a network of safe and accessible roads The processes revolved in developing new...

This report explores the incentives currently available for the production, sale, and use of neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs), and suggests other incentives that could be implemented. NEV incentives are needed because the use of NEVs on a large scale would provide significant air quality...

Alternative vehicular fuels are proposed as a strategy to reduce urban air pollution. In this paper, we analyze the emission Impacts of electric vehicles in California for two target years, 1995 and 2010. We consider a range of assumptions regarding electricity consumption of electric vehicles,...

A recent US DOT plan grading IVHS research correctly notes that, "Over the next 20 years, a national IVHS program could have a greater societal Impact than even the Interstate Highway System " But what will those impacts be? What could they be?The primary thrust of current IVHS initiatives to...

Most cars carry one person and are used for less than 1 hour per day. A more economically rational approach would be to use vehicles more intensively. Carsharing, in which a group of people pays a subscirption plus a per-use fee, is one means of doing so. Carshanng may be orgarazed through...

Most automobiles carry one person and are used for less than one hour per day. A more economically rational approach would be to use vehlcles more intenslvely. Carsharing, in which people pay a subscnption plus a per-use fee, Is one means of doing so. Carsharing may be organlzed through affinity...

The California Air Resources Board mandated the production of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) starting in 1998. Other states may follow. Among the types of vehicles that may satisfy the requirements of this mandate are small, neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs) that would be used in urban areas...

On September 29, 1993, President Clinton and the chief executive officer of Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors (the "Big Three") announced the creation of what was to become known as the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV). The primary goal of the partnership was to develop a...