• Dan Sperling -- director, UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies and chair of the national Transportation Research Board's alternative transportation fuels committee, (916) 752-7434 (office) or (510) 524-0698 (home).Sperling studies the market for electric cars -- "Yes, there is a market," he says -- as well as related public-policy and infrastructure issues. In his upcoming book, "Future Drive: Electric Vehicles and Sustainable Transportation" (Island Press, 1994), Sperling predicts that "the efforts by automakers to dilute and delay the ZEV mandates will fail." Sperling's research group will present its latest research findings to CARB May 12-13, examining the current electric vehicle market and cost.