Buses Around the World are Going Electric

Humanity is getting closer to zero emission transport.

Buses around the world are going electric!

By 2032, about half of the world’s buses will be entirely battery-powered, as will almost three out of four buses sold, according to BloombergNEF’s seventh annual Electric Vehicle Outlook. It will take another 10 years for the global fleet of passenger vehicles to reach 50% EVs, and commercial trucking is decades away from that threshold. Even scooters are moving slowly on the road to electron-driven transport.

Some of that momentum has to do with the nature of bus fleets: Electrifying just one of them can put thousands of fossil-fuel buses out of commission. Berlin, for instance, is in the process of swapping its 1,600 diesel buses for 1,700 electric versions by 2030. New York City aims to transition its 5,800-bus fleet to all electric vehicles by 2040. US school districts, meanwhile, had about 1,000 electric buses by the end of last year and another 4,000 on the way.

Source: Bloomberg News