It’s not just electric cars that are good for the environment. There are also trucks, forklifts and excavators. A Tesla semi tractor truck is on display Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, during the Zero-Emissions Showcase + Ride & Drive at Fairplex in Pomona. (Photo by John Valenzuela, Contributing Photographer) A Class 8 Nikola battery-electric semi-truck is taken for a test drive Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, during The Zero-Emissions Showcase + Ride & Drive at Fairplex in Pomona. (Photo by John Valenzuela, Contributing Photographer) A Battle Motors electric refuse truck is taken for a test drive Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, during the Zero-Emissions Showcase + Ride & Drive at Fairplex in Pomona. (Photo by John Valenzuela, Contributing Photographer) Dean Tedtaotao, from Los Angeles County Public Works, uses a battery-electric Bobcat mini excavator Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, during the Zero-Emissions Showcase + Ride & Drive at Fairplex in Pomona. (Photo by John Valenzuela, Contributing Photographer) Wiggins Lift Co. service technician Mark Lizama watches over Daniela Chang as she operates an electric forklift Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, during the Zero-Emissions Showcase + Ride & Drive at Fairplex in Pomona. (Photo by John Valenzuela, Contributing Photographer) Takuya Kaito, from KDDI America, sits inside a Tesla semi during the Zero-Emissions Showcase + Ride & Drive at Fairplex in Pomona on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024. (Photo by John Valenzuela, Contributing Photographer) Cenntro’s Deepstar 864 electric tractor truck is seen Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, on display during the Zero-Emissions Showcase + Ride & Drive at Fairplex in Pomona. (Photo by John Valenzuela, Contributing Photographer) Show Caption1 of 7A Tesla semi tractor truck is on display Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, during the Zero-Emissions Showcase + Ride & Drive at Fairplex in Pomona. (Photo by John Valenzuela, Contributing Photographer) Expand That’s the message sent at a Wednesday, Nov. 13, event at Fairplex in Pomona, where these types of vehicles were displayed. Called the Zero-Emissions Showcase + Ride & Drive, it was co-hosted by the California Air Resources Board and CALSTART. Related Articles Local News | Earth’s biggest polluters aren’t sending leaders to UN climate talks in a year of weather extremes Local News | Trump has vowed to kill offshore wind in the US. Will he succeed? Local News | Trump 2.0 will alter global climate fighting efforts. Will others step up? Local News | Carbon pollution from high flying rich in private jets soars Local News | European climate agency says this will likely be the hottest year on record — again The demonstration was a chance for businesses to test drive zero-emissions vehicles, learn about their charging and explore funding incentives that might lead them to add the vehicles and equipment to their fleets, a news release states. Also on display were heavy-duty trucks, transit buses, garbage trucks, delivery vans and tractors.