Worlds’ Buses Moving Away from Fossil Petroleum

My colleague Jon LeSage serves as Editor and Publisher of Green Auto Market, which tracks the business of green cars, fuels, and technologies.  As shown in the bar chart below, pure diesel buses now account for less than half of the total market, and, if the trend holds, will experience zero sales somewhere around 2030.

This applies only to the U.S.; not surprisingly, other countries are making much better progress, particularly with respect to electric drive trains.  Jon notes, “All-electric metro buses have seen a wave of growth in recent years — including 32 percent in 2018. There are about 430,000 of them in operation today — about 17 percent of the world’s buses. But about 99 percent of them are in China, according to a report last year by Bloomberg’s New Energy Finance. (The good news is that) cities in North America and Europe are (starting to) bring them in, and California is requiring all new bus purchases to be zero emissions by 2029. Europe has seen an increase from around 200 e-buses to 2,200 over five years.”