National Drive Electric Week

Gina Coplon-Newfield, director of the Sierra Club's Future Fleet & Electric Vehicles Initiative, and Zan Dubin-Scott of Plug In America, reported on Huffington Post:

In 152 cities and 39 US states, more than 90,000 people attended events last week associated with the 2014 National Drive Electric Week. Getting people into plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) to experience the fun, quiet, and clean air benefits of EVs first-hand was part of the point. ...

Cupertino's celebration peaked when a judge with GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® pronounced a new record for most all-electric vehicles in a parade: 507.

Inspiring Citadis tram video

The latter part of this video of the new Alstom Citadis X05 tram does a lot to illustrate the vision of livable communities inspiringly served by transit!

Also see these great photos of trams in French cities.

California's potential 2030 GHG target

This is excellent news from California's Governor Jerry Brown at the United Nations (Sacramento Bee):

Brown said California will meet its goal of reducing carbon emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and within six months will set a new goal for 2030 “that will be more ambitious, that will require more technology and will also require heightened political will.”

I’d expect his starting point will be this chart and the discussion about updated climate science in ARB’s Scoping Plan Update last spring, which established the idea of this curved path from 2020 to 2050. At 5.2% per year that would be a 42% reduction from 2020 to 2030.