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The mayor of California's city of Los Angeles has put forward an
aggressive target for shifting the city to electric vehicles (EVs).
According to a Los Angeles Times report, including 80% of
the city's vehicles to run on electricity or zero-emission fuel,
80% of that electricity comes from renewable sources, and for city
residents drive 2,000 fewer miles each year by the mid-2030s. The
report notes that the plan is an update of a 2015 sustainability
road map, and has been in development for several years. Among the
new elements are new targets and a focus on transportation changes
to meet them, as well as building changes. To reduce the amount of
time city residents spend driving to an average of 13 miles per day
by 2025, the plan includes an ongoing build-out of public transit
and a proposed congestion pricing pilot. The plan includes moving
cars in the city to 25% EV by 2025, 80% by 2035 and 100% by 2050.
Supporting that effort, the city is setting a target for 28,000
publicly available EV chargers, up from 2,100 today, including
streamlining permits, expanding rebate programmes and requiring
more chargers through building codes. Another element of the plan
as presented would be to ensure all autonomous vehicles used for
sharing services are electric by 2021. The mayor, Eric Garcetti, is
quoted as saying, "Most people will be primarily getting into
autonomous vehicles if we look 20, 30 years out. If we mandate that
autonomous vehicles have to be electric, then we will move people
into electric vehicles."
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