Transportation Fact of the Week - 2021 Archive

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1218	Study Shows Transit Buses Idle for an Average of 3.7 Hours per Day	December 27, 2021
1217	Thirteen New Electric Vehicle Battery Plants Are Planned in the U.S. Within the Next Five Years	December 20, 2021
1216	Plug-in Vehicles’ Share of New Light Duty Vehicle Sales in Europe More than Tripled in 2020	December 13, 2021
1215	Data from the First Quarter of 2021 Show Nearly 10,000 Workplace Chargers Have Been Installed	December 6, 2021
1214	Electric and Fuel Cell Heavy-Duty Trucks Could Have Lower Total Cost of Ownership Than Diesels in the Future	November 29, 2021
1213	Education about Electric Vehicles Increases Likelihood Buyers Will Consider Purchasing Them	November 22, 2021
1212	High Adoption of Shared Micromobility in the U.S. Can Save 2.3 billion Gasoline-Equivalent Gallons per Year	November 15, 2021
1211	Energy Zones Mapping Tool Now Allows for Locating New Electric Vehicle Charging Stations with Equity Considerations	November 8, 2021
1210	Sixty Percent of Electric Vehicle DC Fast Charging Ports Had Power Levels Greater Than 50 kW in the First Quarter of 2021	November 1, 2021
1209	California, Washington, and Hawaii Had the Highest Share of Transportation-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions in 2018	October 25, 2021
1208	Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions for a 2020 Electric Small SUV Were Half Those of a Conventional Gasoline Small SUV	October 18, 2021
1207	In 2020 the South-Central Region Had the Highest Share of Heavy-Duty Diesel Trucks Equipped with Technologies to Reduce Nitrogen Oxides and Particulate Matter	October 11, 2021
1206	DOE Estimates That Electric Vehicle Battery Pack Costs in 2021 Are 87% Lower Than in 2008	October 4, 2021
1205	Fourteen Different Models of Plug-in Electric Small SUVs Were Available in Model Year 2021	September 27, 2021
1204	Fuel Wasted Due to U.S. Traffic Congestion in 2020 Cut in Half from 2019 to 2020	September 20, 2021
1203	Light-Duty Plug-In Electric Vehicles Displaced 500 Million Gallons of Gasoline in the U.S. in 2020	September 13, 2021
1202	U.S. Light-Duty Electric Vehicle Miles Traveled Reached 13.7 Billion Miles in 2020	September 6, 2021
1201	Eleven Gasoline Powered Light-Duty Vehicle Models Achieved 50 MPG or Higher in 2021	August 30, 2021
1200	Sales of New Electric Vehicles in the U.S. Were Up for 2020 While Conventional New Light-Duty Vehicle Sales Were Down	August 23, 2021
1199	U.S. Monthly Gasoline Price Has Averaged $2–$3 per Gallon Since December 2014, when Adjusted for Inflation	August 16, 2021
1198	Average Age of U.S. Light-Duty Vehicles Reached a New High of 12.1 Years in 2020	August 9, 2021
1197	Petroleum Use by U.S. Transportation Sector Declined to 12 Million Barrels per Day in 2020	August 2, 2021
1196	Estimates for Model Year 2025 Diesel Trucks Show Class 4 Delivery Trucks Have Lowest Total Cost of Driving, but Tractors with Sleeper Cabs Have Lowest Per-Mile Cost of Driving	July 26, 2021
1195	The Small SUV Segment Has Seen the Greatest Improvement in Fuel Economy of All Light-duty Vehicles	July 19, 2021
1194	For-Hire Freight Volume Was Not Impacted as Severely as For-Hire Passenger Volume During Pandemic	July 12, 2021
1193	Nearly 76 Gigawatt-hours of Battery Cell Capacity Was Produced for U.S. Plug-in Vehicle Market from 2010 to 2020	July 5, 2021
1192	Most U.S. Light-Duty Plug-In Electric Vehicle Battery Cells and Packs Produced Domestically from 2018 to 2020	June 28, 2021
1191	Fourteen States Considering Zero-Emission Light-Duty Sales Requirements	June 21, 2021
1190	Battery-Electric Vehicles Have Lower Scheduled Maintenance Costs than Other Light-Duty Vehicles	June 14, 2021
1189	U.S. Net Petroleum Imports Negative for 2020	June 7, 2021
1188	Consumers Can Estimate Upstream Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Electric and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles	May 31, 2021
1187	The Share of U.S. Workers Who Work from Home Grew from 20% to 71% in 2020	May 24, 2021
1186	The National Average Cost of Fuel for an Electric Vehicle is about 60% Less than for a Gasoline Vehicle	May 17, 2021
1185	Nearly One-Third of All Light-Duty Trucks and 7% of Cars Produced in Model Year 2020 had 9- or 10-speed Transmissions	May 10, 2021
1184	Half of all States Now Have at Least 1,000 Non-residential Electric Vehicle Charging Units	May 3, 2021
1183	New Cars Purchased with Low Fuel Economy Ratings Continue to be Assessed a Gas Guzzler Tax	April 26, 2021
1182	Nearly 50 Light-Duty Plug-In Electric Vehicle Models Were Available in Model Year 2020	April 19, 2021
1181	Gross Domestic Product and Vehicle Miles Traveled Declined in 2020	April 12, 2021
1180	U.S. Vehicle Miles Traveled in April 2020 Was 40% Below April 2019	April 5, 2021
1179	All-Electric Vehicles Have the Lowest Estimated Annual Fuel Cost of All Light-Duty Vehicles	March 29, 2021
1178	Gasoline Direct Injection was Installed on 55% of all Light-Duty Vehicles Produced in 2020	March 22, 2021
1177	Preliminary Data Show Average Fuel Economy of New Light-Duty Vehicles Reached a Record High of 25.7 MPG in 2020	March 15, 2021
1176	The Average Household Spent 3.27% of its Income on Vehicle Fuel in 2018	March 8, 2021
1175	Vehicles Registered in the District of Columbia Averaged 22 Miles per Gallon in 2018	March 1, 2021
1174	Over 20,000 New Electric Vehicle Charging Outlets Were Installed in the United States in 2019	February 22, 2021
1173	California Had the Highest Number of Plug-in Electric Vehicle Registrations per 1,000 People in 2018	February 15, 2021
1172	New Light-Duty Vehicle Sales Declined by 15% from 2019 to 2020	February 8, 2021
1171	Crude Oil Feedstock is the Dominant Cost Component in the Retail Price of Gasoline, Exceeding Costs of Refining, Distribution, Marketing, and Taxes	February 1, 2021
1170	In 2019, Average Annual Retail Gasoline Prices Ranged from a Low of $2.26/gallon in Mississippi to a High of $3.67/gallon in Hawaii	January 25, 2021
1169	Vermont Had the Highest Number of Public Electric Vehicle Chargers per Capita in November 2020	January 18, 2021
1168	Average New Light Truck Price in 2019 was 43% Higher than the Average New Car Price	January 11, 2021
1167	Median Driving Range of All-Electric Vehicles Tops 250 Miles for Model Year 2020	January 4, 2021

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