Here in Norway the trend is toward battery electric buses via diesel hybrids and gas (not gasoline). But even the diesels are quieter than the buses I have see

Here in Norway the trend is toward battery electric buses via diesel hybrids and gas (not gasoline). But even the diesels are quieter than the buses I have seen in the US and certainly a lot cleaner. Buses in both the US seem stuck in some alternate reality where clean fuel and quiet motors are somehow impossible. I realize that this might well be an unwarranted generalization from my experience in the Raleigh-Durham Triangle, perhaps it's better elsewhere.