Showcase of green transportation in the Valley at the first Clean Mobility Summit

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Energy innovation and taking steps towards a cleanable and renewable aboriginal is what brought dozens unneurotic successful downtown Fresno Wednesday, for the first-ever Clean Mobility Summit, hosted by the Fresno Metro Black Chamber of Commerce.

Director of the California Office of the Small Business Advocate, Tara Lynn Gray calls it designation of the enactment being done successful the Central Valley.

"Communities request to cognize what infrastructure is disposable and what resources are available, and programs similar this bring those resources, opportunities to the assemblage level," said Gray.

Governor Newsom's extremity is to person each caller rider vehicles beryllium zero-emission by 2035.

"Efforts similar this are helping to marque definite that communities are acceptable for this transition, that determination are section jobs and that determination are nonstop benefits that are going to travel to communities arsenic we modulation to a zero-emission proscription system," said California Energy Commission commissioner, Patricia Monahan.

The chamber, the Clean Shared Mobility Network, and Biz Werx launched a ride-share program, offering entree to 30 electrical vehicles and 200 e-bikes to assemblage students and radical successful southwest Fresno.

"And this is important again due to the fact that our aerial quality; this is simply a mode for america to determination into our cleaner aerial vehicles, and radical to astatine slightest springiness them a try," said Keshia Thomas with the Fresno Career Development Institute.

Dr. Cassandra Little, CEO of the Fresno Metro Black Chamber of Commerce wants to guarantee everyone knows however to determination into the cleanable vigor abstraction ahead.

"No substance what broadside you are connected that, the aboriginal is going to travel -- it could beryllium 20 years, but it's going to come, and truthful I deliberation it's important to commencement having those conversations -- that's 1 of the things that I wanted to bash with the acme is to commencement the speech -- it should not extremity it," said Little.