Laguna Beach to look at municipal vehicle options to reduce emissions
Cars travel through Laguna Beach at the intersection of South Coast Highway and Broadway.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)
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Laguna Beach will be considering the possibility of replacing vehicles in its municipal fleet with an electrical option, in an effort city officials hope will lead to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
An agenda item brought by Councilman George Weiss called on the city manager to look at the city’s vehicles and infrastructure to make determinations about the cost and ability to acquire electric replacements.
The Laguna Beach City Council voted unanimously to support the plan at its meeting on Tuesday night.
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The California Energy Commission (CEC) has approved a plan to invest up to $115 million to increase the number of fueling stations in the state that support hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). The funding nearly doubles the state’s investments to date and will help California achieve its goal to ultimately deploy 200 public hydrogen fueling stations.
The plan also supports Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive order phasing out the sale of new gasoline-powered passenger vehicles by 2035 by providing essential infrastructure to meet the fueling needs of the increasing number of zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) anticipated on the road in the next decade. While battery electric vehicles (BEV) are the most common ZEV in the state, more than 8,000 FCEVs have also been leased or sold.