The People’s Republik Of California is insane
Disneyland must retire gas-powered Autopia cars by February
Disneyland faces a February deadline to retire Autopia’s gas-powered engines or close the 1955 opening day Tomorrowland attraction under a settlement agreement with the state agency that regulates air pollution in California.
MiceChat reports Disneyland faces a state-mandated deadline to retire the gas-powered cars on Autopia by Feb. 1 or shut down the attraction.
Climate Colored Goggles discovered Autopia’s state-mandated deadline for retiring the gas cars after filing a California Public Records Act request with the California Air Resources Board to review a copy of Disney’s settlement compliance plan.
Disneyland plans to update Autopia with fully electric vehicles and retire the gas engines that have powered the Tomorrowland race track attraction since the 1955 debut of the Anaheim theme park.
Disneyland reached an agreement with the Air Resources Board to retire the current Autopia gas-powered engines in early 2027, according to Disneyland officials.
The ride itself goes a whopping 6 miles an hour, and, let’s be honest, with the price of gas in the PRC it would probably be worth replacing them with EV engines in the long term, though, energy isn’t exactly cheap in the PRC. However, it’s simply wackadoodle that the state government is going to essentially force Disney to replace the engines, it’s the definition of Big Government. There’s nothing they won’t interfere in.
Disneyland paid a $56,000 settlement to the California Air Resources Board in 2024 after disclosing the Honda engines on Autopia ride vehicles were operating without certified emission controls.
The California Air Resources Board fine was the result of an administrative oversight that was promptly corrected with no impact to the environment, according to Disneyland officials.
They tiny engines for a ride, good grief. And Disney should have sent some investigators around to the members of the CARB to see if they are driving EVs or still in their fossil fueled vehicles. Remember, CARB is responsible for the California EV requirement.
I would have thought Disney would have redesigned that ride decades ago to reduce maintenance and operating costs if for no other reason.
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