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There is a chart in there that says that 33% of municipal buses are already electrified. I cannot believe it. Did China secretly electrify its whole fleet?

• hannob 5y ago
  Not secretly, but yes. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/municipal-buses-lead-electrification-effort/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/municipal-buses-lead-...
  • choeger 5y ago
    > This is exactly what happened in China which is home to 98 percent of the world's electric buses. More than 500,000 have been introduced to Chinese streets in a coordinated effort by the Chinese government, while very few are in operation in other countries. So there are only about 1.5M buses in operation world-wide? Germany operates around 80k. If that is somewhat representative for the EU as a whole, and I have no reason to doubt it, there should be around 400-500k buses here alone. This would leave only 500k buses for the rest of the world, which I find hard to believe. On the other hand it might not be off by some orders of magnitude...
    • dx034 5y ago
      From my experience, a lot of buses in Africa and East Asia are run by private companies or individuals, not municipalities. So the number could very well be correct.
    • toyg 5y ago
      The key is probably the word "municipal". Most of the UK for example has public buses, but they are not run by local authorities - only the ones in London are.