China Promises Made Promises Kept: 93% of world’s electric buses are driving in China, about 470,000 e-buses…

This is in line with China’s 2030 CO2 peaking and 2060 carbon neutrality programs, aiming to fully electrify its public bus fleet by 2035. At this stage 70% of China’s fleet has been electrified in about 10 years time with some cities already 100% such as #Shenzhen leading the way having 17,000 #ebuses on the roads.

China’s current electric bus fleet is estimated to save 270,000 barrels of diesel every day. This is over three times the volume saved by all the #ecars in the world.

In comparison, #Europe sees about 8,500 e-buses driving in their cities (2021) and in the #USA a little over 3,500 e-buses (2021).

But greening public transport and mobility is obviously not just about the #electrification of #buses and other public vehicles such as #taxis, waste and cleaning service vehicles or couriers. The large-scale electrification is just one part of the ambitions and challenges in the whole circle of this public transport #greeneconomy; including among others #batterycharger and #energy (#greenenergy) sources, #recycling (especially for batteries), public #infrastructure and a wider transformation to public and private #smartmobility and #greenmobility along with its regulations.

Read more in Sebastian Ibold 塞八仙 post about an extensive study in for the optimization of the public bus network for #Tianjin, a 14 million city in the north of #China and part of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cluster or #JingJinJi Metropolitan Region with about 110 million people. A blueprint for other cities in China and beyond.