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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
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2017, @04:27PM
China has 1.4 billion inhabitants, compared to 81 million in Germany and 0.33 billion in the United states. So China has 31 watt solar capacity per inhabitant, compared to 470 watt per inhabitant in Germany and 84 watt per inhabitant in the United States.
Always remember that Chinese numbers tend to be big simply because there are so many people there.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday February 06 2017, @06:48PM
True, but also keep in mind that energy needs of the average Chinese are a lot lower than their Western counterparts (half of a German, and a quarter of an American, but rising fast).
The accelerated trend for nuclear, wind and solar deployment in China (as well as dense public transport) should lead them in a few years to remember their big smog days the way L.A. remembers theirs as a bad memory, now a rare event, and a cautionary tale.