Electric buses: crucible of change | Electric Vehicles Research
Buses are the demons of the piece when killing thousands of Londoners and making Oxford Street the most NOx polluted road on Earth as they belch nose to tail. Over broader areas, China is even worse but there the government is making the bus into a savior. It banned the very polluting two stroke engines on two wheel vehicles so pure electric bikes became the way 140 million people get to work. That was not enough, so electric buses and trains get the big money with the hybrid interim stage increasingly being leapfrogged with pure electric versions of even double deckers.
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