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China on Track to 100% Electric Bus Fleet in 5-10 Years

posted by cmn32480 on Monday February 06 2017, @01:43AM   

An Anonymous Coward writes:

In the end of 2015, China had 170.000 of the 173.000 ebuses circulating in the World. That's right, 98% of them were in zooming in The Big Red Giant, which i think says it all about the role of that country on the change happening towards eMobility.

[...] Just focusing on all-electric Buses, sales grew to 115.700 units in 2016, which represents some 20% market share, with Yutong still in the lead, followed by BYD and Nanjing.with the first growing 36% YoY and the second more than 50%.

With this kind of growth and market share, it is expected that China goes all-electric in this category in less than 10 years, maybe five, so it is no wonder that large cities like Shenzen are already envisioning an all-electric 15.000 fleet of Buses...In 2017.

https://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2017/01/china-buses-2016.html

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• Re:Ok Re:Ok (Score: 3, Interesting) by WalksOnDirt on Monday February 06 2017, @03:27AM

  by WalksOnDirt (5854) on Monday February 06 2017, @03:27AM (#463277) Journal

  China may be leading, but California is following closely. I think electric buses for short trips will sweep the country soon. Long haul buses will take longer.

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• Re:Ok (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2017, @04:15PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2017, @04:15PM (#463479)

  So California will get one electric bus per square mile?

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• Re:Ok (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2017, @07:31PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2017, @07:31PM (#463583)

  Long haul buses will take longer.

  They always have.

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