Benjamin Kay, a marine biology teacher at Santa Monica High School and Santa Monica College, holds an “I Love EVs” sign at a rally held by climate activists at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank on Sunday. The company also promised to stop operating the combustion vehicles by fall 2026 — a much firmer commitment than its initial timeline of “in …
When the Walt Disney Co. announced earlier this month that it would at long last ditch the smog-spewing gasoline engines at its beloved Autopia attraction in Anaheim, the company left a few key details to the imagination. After I wrote a story breaking the news about the company’s plans, a coalition of electric vehicle activists launched a campaign to pressure …
In many ways, Disneyland’s Autopia attraction shows what car travel could be if we made better choices. As The Times’ climate columnist Sammy Roth reported this week, Disneyland plans to electrify Autopia — with hybrid or fully electric vehicles isn’t yet clear — in the next few years. ———— To the editor: As people who were quoted in Sammy Roth’s …
Visitors wait in lines inside their idling cars at the end of the ride at Autopia in Tomorrowland at Disneyland. In a move that will finally bring Disneyland’s Tomorrowland back to the future, the theme park has announced it will replace the gas-fueled miniature cars of Autopia with electric models in the next few years. Autopia was a centerpiece of …
Cars get stuck in traffic as they near the exit to Autopia in Disneyland. At the Anaheim park’s opening, Walt Disney called Tomorrowland “a vista into a world of wondrous ideas” and “a step into the future, with predictions of constructive things to come.” He promised it would offer “new frontiers in science, adventure and ideals.” Nearly seven decades later, …
