Reports about climate change make it very, very clear that the world needs to act now if we would like there to stillOne recommendation that seems within reach is switching from gas-guzzling cars to electronic vehicles. And the City of L.A. recently started to do just that —
but instead of putting their brand-new fleet of EVs onto the streets, the Los Angeles Department of Transportation My colleague Ryan Fonseca reports that the vehicles sat idle because city officials hadn’t acquired the requisite charging stations.Collectively, the cars are worth more than $384,000. The news about the city’s parked EVs came about as a result of an investigation by the City Controller Office’s Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Unit. The finding: LADOT’s decisions wasted city resources.