Column: Disneyland just promised electric cars at Autopia. Gas will be gone by 2026
by Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times— When 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. Would the new ride vehicles be purely electric? Or would they be hybrids that still burned some climate-wrecking, oil-based fuel? And how long would it take for Walt Disney's creative and engineering heirs to make the long-overdue switch? After I wrote a story breaking the news...
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