Re:China's e-buses dent oil demand more than electric cars do
by Blackbeard_ on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @05:35AM
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Yeah, right on.
To put some numbers behind that it seems only ~1% of London's buses are electric whereas about a third are hybrid.
Re:China's e-buses dent oil demand more than electric cars do
by magduf on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @12:54PM
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Considering that most of a city bus's use is at low speed, constantly braking and accelerating from stops, the hybrid should be a huge improvement environmentally; it's the perfect use-case for a hybrid powertrain (where the ICE just runs at constant speed and charges the batteries, known as a serial hybrid vehicle).
If you were on the bus its engine probably started a minute later, it's still an improvement, and I assume that environmentally not spewing fumes at bus stops helps a little with local air quality, but it's not usually an electric bus.