The Olympics have been postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, but the planning for the Tokyo Games has already delivered an instructive lesson about the future of clean transportation.
About 100 hydrogen-powered buses are being readied to shuttle spectators to Olympic venues, and plans call for battery electric vehicles to run in a continuous loop through the Olympic Village to transport athletes.
Californians should be heartened by this commitment to clean-fuel diversity, as it affirms the wisdom of the state’s pursuit of carbon-free transportation solutions.
