Lessons from San Francisco: 150 years of electric public transport

San Francisco has been a pioneer of electric public transport systems for more than a century. As more countries around the world look to electrification of public transit to decarbonize, many are hitting the same barriers: large upfront costs and a lack of strong local or national policy. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is not only the country’s oldest public transit agency, but also its longest operator of electric fleets.