CA: Futurists Urge Local Cities to Make Way for Electric and Autonomous Vehicles — or Else

Leaders in energy, transit services and urban planning urged local officials to support electrifying the transportation sector or face cataclysmic consequences already developing as a result of global climate change.

About 190 people from San Gabriel Valley’s 31 cities, local utilities and transportation agencies came to the Pacific Palms Hotel in City of Industry on Wednesday to hear presentations from business leaders and environmental experts who said cities must prepare for a paradigm shift in transportation.

Ryan Popple, CEO of Proterra, Inc., manufacturer of electric buses that recently opened a facility in Industry, said rising temperatures and devastating wildfires in western U.S. cities is the result of climate change.

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