Electric Public Transportation
with Kent Minault

June 10, 2021 at 7:00 PM

Enjoy the program again on YouTube

As Kent discusses adopting
Electric Public Transporation in Tennessee

SIerra Club has asked us to continue presenting programs virtually until is is safe for us to resume in-person events later this summer
Please watch for more about that on our website. We hope to all be together in just a few more weeks.

Kent Minault, Co-Chair of the Tennessee Chapter's Transportation Committee, tells us about the progress in adopting electric vehicles in public transportation and leads our discussion. 

Electric vehicle adoption is ready to soar.  Learn how to help schools, transit districts, businesses, as well as friends and neighbors both urban and rural, take advantage of the growing opportunities to get off fossil fuels.  The federal government, the state, utilities and municipalities are making many of the right moves.  Occasionally they need help.  Kent reviews the winning policies from around the country and the world. 

Let’s figure out how to educate our neighbors and win some successes here in Tennessee.

February 13, 2020 - An electric bus - supported by the WestSmartEV project led by Pacificorp - waits for passengers at a transit center in Park City, Utah
(Photo by Margaret Smith / Akimeka)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory(c)

Kent Minault has been a long time organizer since his early days in California in the 1960's. In 2010, he volunteered with the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign. After getting Los Angeles off coal, he joined the LA County Electric Bus Coalition and got LA Metro to transition to electric buses by 2030. He organized EV events in Watts and helped found the Watts Clean Air Committee, installing rooftop solar and helping residents enter union apprenticeship programs.

Here in Tennessee, he organized an EV event in East Knoxville in collaboration with SEEED.
He’s Vice Chair of the Harvey Broome Group’s ExCom and is the Group’s Political Chair.