Emissionless Mobility

👟❤️🩹 LACI is dedicated to uplifting founders who are working toward a greener economy and more sustainable city for all. Today, we'd like to amplify another LACI portfolio company that is actively assisting Angelenos affected by the LA fires, AGS LABS INC. / ALES GREY™. Ales Grey is paving the way for local green manufacturing in the USA and North America with circular products made from future-focused materials. During the LA fires, Ales Grey launched the Shoes of Hope drive to benefit more than 100 families affected by the fires, with multiple sites in Altadena and Pacific Palisades. Ales Grey Founder "Sneaker" Steve Patiño shared, "We teamed up with Max Yergan at Emissionless Mobility to help deliver the shoes to nonprofit groups working directly with impacted communities." It's inspiring to see our portfolio companies working together to support communities in need. Great work, AGS LABS INC. / ALES GREY™!

Back at it again today, this time helping get 200 more meals to the Venice Family Clinic. Same meals (John & Vinny’s, goop Kitchen, Badmaash, Tacos 1986, and Danny Boy's Famous Original Pizza), different wheels. Today we used a Rivian R1S that I rented through Turo for the past week - bringing it back to the rental lot now. Putting out an open call for help (orgs needing additional supplies, meals, whatever) and helpers (people willing to lend a hand). Get in touch! Max@emissionless.co // 9732879636 text is best. Emissionless Mobility #LosAngelesFires #PalisadesFire #SunsetFire #EatonFire #HurstFire #KennethFire #FeedTheHeroes #LookForTheHelpers

Today we helped transport 200 meals to first responders on the front lines in Calabasas CA. As Mr Rogers says, look for the helpers. Today I met several of them - real life superheroes at the LA County Sheriff’s department Malibu / Lost Hills station who are working 18 hour days (!) to keep us safe, the team at Jon and Vinny's who coordinated the meals across five different restaurants, the linemen working to secure electrical wires throughout the city, and last but not least….. Four high school juniors from Brentwood who decided to get up, get out, and help. Their school burned down this week. Their community and homes are at risk. And these “kids” decided to get up and do something about it. They showed up at Jon & Vinny’s in Brentwood eager to do whatever. They helped me load the truck and even followed me all the way to Calabasas to help unload at the sheriffs station. They just kept saying “we just want to help, we just want to help” it really blew me away. I’d be lying if I said my eyes aren’t tearing up as I write this. “The kids are alright” as they say. Shoutout to John & Vinny’s, goop Kitchen, Badmaash, Tacos 1986, and Danny Boy's Famous Original Pizza for keeping the heroes fed. Let’s do it again tomorrow. You know what would go great with all that delicious food?? A nice tall can of Liquid Death water. It’s not too late Mike Cessario, let’s make this happen. Emissionless Mobility #LosAngelesFires #PalisadesFire #SunsetFire #EatonFire #HurstFire #KennethFire #FeedTheHeroes #LookForTheHelpers

Hey Liquid Death - if you guys want to donate some water to the brave folks on the front lines fighting the Palisades fire, we will make sure it gets there. We can take as much as you’re willing to give, we can pickup anywhere in LA county. LinkedIn community, do you think we can peer pressure Liquid Death into making a donation? Let’s find out. Tag them in the comments. If you’re a brand and have ANY supplies to offer up, we will pick them up and get them where they need to be. This includes fresh / hot food, packaged food, water, coffee / tea, or whatever else you think would go to good use. If you’re connected with any community orgs in the area, we are here to help move stuff. This includes emergency shelters and pet rescues. Get in touch - Max@emissionless.co // 9732879636 (text or email is best). Emissionless Mobility #LosAngelesFires #PalisadesFire #SunsetFire #EatonFire #HurstFire #LookForTheHelpers

As we enter 2025, the #GrandNationalExperimentTour comes to a close - we have reached our destination, Los Angeles CA! The tour took us through 16 states and covered nearly 6,500 miles during the month of December. We went from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, following a long ribbon of interstate highways to California from the New York island. We made it across the plains, over the mountains, and through the deserts. We did it through the snow, sleet, rain, hail, and fog. We made it through The Grapevine, Grants Pass, Snoqualmie Pass, and fought 55+ MPH headwinds through the Great Plains. We did it in December, with temperatures typically ranging from 25 - 45 degrees, often times below 15 degrees. We pushed the boundaries of commercial EV performance and overcame the challenges of the nation’s EV charging network. And as far as we know, we were the first ones to do it, but we won’t be the last. So, is all-electric, cross-country, long-haul trucking possible in December 2024? Yes. Is it practical? Not yet. Especially not in December. We had no major issues along the way, but the conditions surely made things more challenging and much more time consuming. We are excited for the future of sustainable logistics, the industry as a whole will take some major leaps forward in 2025. Consider this a call to action. Think you can do it faster than us? Think you can go farther than us? Think you can do it in a bigger truck? Prove it! As this was a first-of-its-kind cross country run, we set some records around fastest and furthest all-electric and solo all-electric commercial truck runs, but records are made to be broken. We’ll see you out there! #GNXRoadTrip #2024GrandNationalExperimentTour #EVRoadTrip #CoastToCoast #NYCtoLAX #FOAK #AllElectric #ElectricLongHaul #Class3EV #Brightdrop #PoweredByElectrons #RunningOnSunshine

6,500 miles later, the journey is over. As we say goodbye to 2024, a new journey starts in 2025. We made it to our new home, Los Angeles CA! On December 3rd we left NYC, marched across Pennsylvania and Ohio, up through Michigan to Detroit, across Illinois to St. Louis Missouri then up to Kansas City, across the windy plains of Kansas to the Rockies of Colorado to Denver, up and over through Wyoming to Salt Lake City Utah, through the rolling timber forests of the PNW in Seattle Washington and Portland Oregon, then finally down the I-5 from California’s political capital to its cultural capital. Sacramento CA reminds me of Denver: a blend of new and old, growing rapidly, divided by interstate junctions. There’s trains everywhere - like Manhattan’s subway network just on the surface level. Old Sacramento feels like a living museum or a movie set, a scene from Gunsmoke. Back on the road, I saw a side of California that you don’t often hear about: California’s Central Valley, home to nearly 20% of the nations irrigated land. Towering evergreens give way to olive trees, almond plantations, citrus groves, and bovine feed lots. Homemade billboards on the farms call on Gavin Newsum to save our dam water and Make California Great Again. Pleas for lower inflation and food and fuel costs sit aside Trump / Vance 2024 signs, as if the coming tariffs won’t make it worse. Smoot-Hawley, but in 2024. Once I passed through the notorious Grapevine, it finally hit me that I’m not going back. That in a few hours and few hundred miles, we can finally just - stop. There’s no charging plan, no new city to research to find metamorphosizing neighborhoods and the best pizza. I write this message from the roof of my Airbnb in DTLA on Spring Street, my home for the month of January while I find an apartment. I allowed myself to be a tourist for a day, trying to view my new home through the same critical lense that I viewed all these other cities over the past month. Los Angeles was once the quitessesntial example of all I felt was wrong about urban design: a sprawling, car-centric city with no public transit and traffic-packed interstates masquerading as a fast and efficient way to get from one end of the city to the other. These same freeways and interstates serving as artificial borders. A historic downtown left to rot and decay - where undesirables are contained to a few blocks like cattle - invisible to the motorists whizzing by over head. But times have changed. The cars are still essential and the traffic still outrageous, but there’s also metro rail lines. There’s micromobility (bikes and scooters) but not yet sufficient dedicated / protected infrastructure. DTLA is evolving. There’s even good pizza now! Maybe just Pizzeria Sei and Brooklyn transplant Roberta’s, but I’ll take it. Los Angeles, I’m home. Emissionless Mobility #GNXRoadTrip #2024GrandNationalExperimentTour #NYCtoLA #CoastToCoast #6500Miles #AllElectric

Back on the road! After a rainy week in the Pacific Northwest, we’ve made it to California. Our first stop was Electric Island - Daimler Truck North America // Portland General Electric’s charging sandbox on Swan Island - the first ever heavy duty charging hub in the USA. I’ve never seen a wider variety of plugs in a single location - Detroit eFill, ABB, ChargePoint, Shell Recharge Solutions, Heliox, and more. I went with the Alptronic hypercharger. Portland is cool. Very unique. There are familiar elements: a visible industrial legacy (timber), ‘hip’ neighborhoods undergoing mixed use transformations (Buckman, Hosford, Kerns), an economically depressed ‘Old Town’ with empty buildings, and swaths of highway / railroads that confine neighborhoods into distinct districts and separate the people from nature and the waterfront. But Portland does many things very well - lots of transit including streetcars, dedicated bike infrastructure, a phenomenal soccer stadium located right in the urban fabric, Voodoo Donuts 🍩, and an inexplicably good pizza scene (Ken’s Artisian, Grana) 🍕 City of Portland - take a peek at what your big brother Seattle is up to. Rip out the highways, starting with the 405 urgently. I-5 will be trickier but maybe build a nice big tunnel from Kenton or Overlook down to South Portland. Old Town has the same potential as Pioneer Square in Seattle. I believe in you! The stretch down I-5 winds through the mountains and along the Willamette. Pretty straightforward until you get into the mountains of south / southwest Oregon. Near Grant’s Pass and the California border, I encountered the thickest fog I’ve ever seen in my life - so thick you could only see about a hundred feet ahead of you, and virtually nothing to the sides of the vehicle where the headlights don’t reach. Fearing that I would get rear ended if I just parked on the shoulder till I could see again, I white knuckled it to the nearest exist - Hilt CA - where I was able to get off the highway and listen to the Knicks game while I waited for the fog to dissipate. Onwards to Weed CA, home to a lovely Pilot Flying J / GM Energy station at the foot of Black Butte. We topped up the battery, got some sleep, and now we’re back on the road to Sacramento. Looking forward to the sunny parts of California, I’ve had enough of the rain and fog. Emissionless Mobility #GNXRoadTrip #2024GrandNationalExperimentTour #EVRoadTrip #CoastToCoast #PNW #Washington #Oregon #NorCal #CaliforniaRepublic #AlmostThere

Year in Review: Have you heard about the people and organizations in local communities - maybe yours - pushing back against climate change and creating jobs at the same time? Find such stories about solutions in our digital magazine just out this fall, “Quality Jobs, Green Future,” produced in partnership with Jobs for the Future (JFF). Get it at https://lnkd.in/egbrtYvi. #YearInReview #Climate #GreenJobs #QualityJobs #GreenFuture Ares Management Corporation Charitable Foundation World Resources Institute WRI India Arizona State University Inland Empire Labor Institute Lyra Greater New Orleans Foundation Binghamton University The Industrial Commons Portland General Electric Sustainable Pittsburgh Utah State University University of Tennessee, Knoxville Shakir Cannon-Moye Kala Fleming Tinia P. Max Yergan Stefano Alva Kwaku Jyamfi Tara Rodríguez Besosa El Departamento de la Comida Wanda Rios Colorado Cooperativa de Energía La Margarita Abeyno Coop Crystal Díaz Jonathan Castillo Polanco Hispanic Federation Melissa Panzer Joan Lynch Arthur Bilger Lonia Guha Ramona Schindelheim Maria Flynn Kristina F. Taj Ahmad Eldridge Efrem Bycer Brooke Brownlee Lucy Fernandez Molly Hemstreet Kristina Kent Michelle Armstrong

This weekend, after a long stretch of road across the Great Plains of Kansas, up into the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, through the Wild West of Wyoming, across the High Desert Plains of Utah / Idaho / Oregon / Washington, we’ve reached the Pacific Northwest in Seattle! This stretch was challenging. Extreme winds, steep grades, limited visibility, but thankfully no snow! Traveling alongside historic routes like the Lewis and Clark trail, Route 66, Pony Express, and Cannonball Run, we can’t help but reflect on our own journey and what it signifies for the future of electric trucking. Is a cross country trek in a Class 3 Commercial EV even possible? Well, we have proven that the answer is yes. Is it practical? Probably not (yet), especially for a solo driver. We will take a short hiatus over the next few days, spending time with our loved ones for the holidays, then head down I-5 to our final destination and new home - Los Angeles CA. Happy Holidays from Max, Nico, and the rest of us at Emissionless Mobility! #GNXRoadTrip #2024GrandNationalExperimentTour #EVRoadTrip #CoastToCoast #NYCtoSEA #Colorado #Wyoming #Utah #Idaho #Oregon #Washington

We made it to Seattle WA safe and sound. We’re taking a brief intermission here for a few days to spend the holidays with some family before getting back on the road to our final destination: Los Angeles CA. We were wrapped in fog for most of the stretch between Boise ID and Seattle WA, but the parts I could see were stunning. Pretty smooth sailing: an average 1.0 - 1.2 mi/kWh and limited friction with charging. While traveling the historic Lewis and Clark Oregon Trail, I couldn’t help but wonder, how the hell did they (and countless other pioneers who packed up their wagons and went west) do this?? If a single thesis has emerged on this trip, it’s this: highways and byways play a profound, often profoundly detrimental, role in shaping our cities and the communities that call them home. The Downtown Seattle Waterfront was once an example of the problem, but is now a glimmering example of the solution. In 2019, they tore down Alaskan Way Viaduct, an elevated expressway which made everything underneath it feel like Old New York from Futurama (specifically S3E10). Belltown and Pioneer Square down to King Street were once areas you desperately wanted to avoid unless you were visiting Pike Place Market or the stadiums. This area is home to Yesler Way aka Mill Street aka Skid Road - the original of what later became genericized as Skid Row in other cities across North America. Bound in by the I-5 / I-90 junction on one side, the Viaduct overhead, and the industrialized waterfront on the other, this area became notorious - the local McDonald’s earned the new moniker McStabby’s - as it became a haven for folks who had nowhere else to go, many of whom were experiencing homelessness and / or opioid dependency. Just five years on, it’s a different story. There’s sunlight on pavement that sat in darkness since the viaduct was built in 1953. The people can access the waterfront. People are out walking, running, cycling, or walking their dogs. There’s life, activity, and sunshine in places where there was none before. Seattle isn’t perfect, but it also doesn’t pretend to be. This downtown area still has its rough edges, particularly those still ensnared by the cement beams and I-5 / I-90 interchanges that loom overhead. Communities have been displaced and forced out through gentrification, as a booming tech sector pulls in new Seattleites looking to call one of the many Roblox-style medium and high density developments dotting the Emerald City’s hillsides home. Many people are visibly struggling - out in the open for all to see, not swept away into the shadows like in many other places I’ve been. Seattle serves as an example of what’s possible - proving that bold action can reverse the impacts of building for cars instead of building for people - but there’s still work to do. Emissionless Mobility #GNXRoadTrip #2024GrandNationalExperimentTour #EVRoadTrip #CoastToCoast #PugetSound #AlaskanWay #Seattle #OregonTrail #PNW #HappyHolidays