@PJ_Evans @AdrianVolt @mekkaokereke @tess
It's s start!
There were 5,269 battery electric buses and 211 fuel-cell electric buses in the United States as of 2022.
https://electrek.co/2023/02/04/us-zero-emission-transit-buses-2022/
There are 16,000 electric buses in Shenzhen alone: one city.
https://www.wired.com/story/shenzhen-electric-buses-public-transport/
China wide: half a million e-buses.
The difference is not about the tech: its about whether or not there is #CarBrain
@CelloMomOnCars @PJ_Evans @AdrianVolt @tess
And to the point of this thread, the top electric bus maker in China, and Europe, and the US, and the world is... drum roll please... BYD. Not Tesla. Stella Li, not Elon.
And she builds those BYD buses profitably, in California, in a union factory, while employing Black and brown and women employees, and promoting them to positions of leadership.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ipV1H43-c8I
That's just too many narrative violations for the US to process!