10:45am | The California Green Transportation Collaborative, a partnership between Long Beach City College, Costa College, Skyline College and the Career Ladders Project, is teaming with Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal, D-Long Beach, to hold a workshop Friday focusing on government policies and industry trends affecting transportation alternatives in California.with a focus on electric vehicles.
The June 10 workshop will be held from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the board room at the Port of Long Beach, 925 Long Beach Harbor Plaza.
LBCC President Eloy Ortiz Oakley said that “understanding future trends in electric vehicles is important for the future of our economy and our environment.”
Mayor Bob Foster has been tapped to welcome attendees with introductory remarks, an LBCC spokesman said.
Workshop speakers will include Gail Schwandner, dean of Workforce Development at LBCC; John Boesel, president of CalSTART; Dean Taylor, Southern California Edison; Cal Macy, director of LBCC’s Advanced Transportation Technology Center; as well as a representative from an emerging technology manufacturer.
“I am pleased to be a part of this discussion as the chair of the Assembly Transportation Committee,” said Lowenthal in a prepared statement. “I think everyone will find something of interest during this discussion, including how we will train the workforce to work on the up-and-coming electric vehicles that will be hitting our workplaces in the very near future and the movement of freight up the I-710 Freeway on an electric guideway.”
For more information, call 526-938-3151.