{"id":248826,"date":"2024-04-15T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/zion-national-park-has-gone-electric\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T07:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T07:00:17","slug":"zion-national-park-has-gone-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/zion-national-park-has-gone-electric\/","title":{"rendered":"Zion National Park Has Gone Electric"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>I would argue that the 6-mile route up Zion Canyon in Zion National Park is the most beautiful place in the world (see Figures 8 and 9). Way back 25 years ago, Zion National Park went \u201cgreen.\u201d The National Park Service decided that automobile traffic in Zion Canyon had become so bad that it banned automobiles in the canyon during all but a few months in the winter. Park Service replaced the automobiles with buses, not just any buses, but \u201cgreen\u201d (for the time) propane-fueled mostly tandem buses. (See Figures 2 and 3.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_329535\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-329535\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-329535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1: My wife with my ebike and our Tesla Model 3 plus bike rack. Top of Tunnel Road, Zion National Park, Utah. January 10, 2022. Photo by Fritz Hasler.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Spectacular Zion Canyon \u2014 Cars Prohibited 7 Months a Year<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The 6-mile road up Zion Canyon is the non plus ultra&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/04\/14\/zion-national-park-has-gone-electric\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at cleantechnica.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! I would argue that the 6-mile route up Zion Canyon in Zion National Park is the most beautiful place in the world (see Figures 8 and 9). 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