Electric cars sit charging in a parking garage at the University of California, Irvine January 26, 2015. “The Irvine Smart Grid Demonstration”, a $79 million project funded half by federal stimulus money and half by Edison and partners like UC Irvine, was launched in 2010. The $12 billion utility's research team Southern California Edison is testing everything from charging electronic vehicles via cell phone to devices that smooth out the power created by rooftop solar panels. Those are some of the roughly 60 projects in the works at Edison's Advanced Technology division. It has a small $19 million annual budget, but its influence far exceeds that. (Photo by Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)

Fans and community members gather around a LAPD car along the procession route for Nipsey Hussle after his memorial at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, April 11, 2019. 4 people shot and 1 dead during the procession LAPD reported on late April 11, 2019 The Grammy-nominated artist was killed in front of The Marathon Clothing store he founded in 2017. (Photo by Kyle Grillot/AFP Photo)

Aerialists Luka Owen and Daniel Connor perform with a Fork Lift Truck to mark the handover of the former Daimler Car Factory to Imagineer by the Wigley Group on April 14, 2021 in Coventry, England. The building will include a sound recording studio and edit suite, as well as a Sprung Dance Floor and Vertical Dance Wall. As well as providing a home for Imagineer’s innovative education and training programmes aimed at young people and people with disabilities. (Photo by Darren Staples/Getty Images)

People wear face masks while participating in the annual Memorial Day Parade on May 25, 2020 in the Staten Island borough of New York City. Dozens of cars and nearly 100 members of the patriotic motorcycle group Rolling Thunder joined the event. This year’s parade was diminished in size and in person-to-person contact due to the coronavirus outbreak. Across the country, events honoring the nation’s veterans have been cancelled or scaled back as America continues to experience high numbers of deaths and new cases of COVID-19. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Vervet monkeys Higgins, left, and Andor fight playfully atop a car in the Park 'N Fly parking lot which lies adjacent to the swampy mangrove preserve where the monkey colony lives, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Dania Beach, Fla. For 70 years, a group of non-native monkeys has made their home next to a South Florida airport runway, delighting visitors and becoming local celebrities. (Photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo)

An Asian elephant called “Plai Deaw” goes for a walk on a mountain road in Nakhon Nayok, Thailand on July 11, 2022. The bull has become well known in the area for his taste for venturing out from the deep forest and emerging among cars and village homes. Thailand has an estimated 2,000 Asian elephants living in the wild but there is often conflict when they come into contact with humans on roads and in villages. A similar number of elephants are kept captive where they work in zoos and are hired out for religious festivals and weddings. (Photo by Mongkol Pitakmoo/ViralPress)

Flames quickly grow as firefighters set a backfire on the eastern front of the Park Fire, which has grown to 360,141 acres and is 12 percent contained, on July 28, 2024 near Chico, California. Strong winds and dried vegetation fueled the fire that exploded 70,000 acres in the first 24 hours after a man allegedly pushed a burning car into a ravine to intentionally set the blaze. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

A Peugeot 408 car is displayed during the 2011 (15th) Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macao International Auto Show at Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center on June 2, 2011 in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province of China. The 6-day Auto Show will be held from June 2 to 7 with total exhibition area of 110,000 square meters. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images)