Positive Future #429 (Feature photo – BYD Electric Bus – By 写意人生 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18318429)
Dozens of nations have set or are contemplating an end to the sale of new fossil-fuel vehicles in their countries. Within the context of this changing political and regulatory environment, the infiltration of electric buses into the world’s transportation fleets underscores the coming new reality.
What makes electric buses important is that their construction adds to the development and refinement of technologies that will spill over to heavy equipment in agriculture, truck transport and ocean transport.
Making news today is BYD (a company from China) that set up a manufacturing facility for electric buses in California. The company is celebrating the production of its 300th electric bus. You can see the celebration in the following video: