Bus electrification is a real success story.<p>The EU aims to phase out sales of diesel busses by 2030 but might achieve that several years early, possibly even eliminating diesel from the entire 200K fleet of city busses by that same year.
Does anyone have a good article/vid behind the BYD story? I’ve only heard of them this year and now they’re everywhere (outselling many makers here in Brazil too).
<i>Vox</i> just posted a video called "Why China is winning the EV war: it's the battery":<p>* <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkxMdmipYqM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkxMdmipYqM</a>
London buses spend a lot of time stopped at bus stops. I wonder if it would ever make sense to install a 500kW pantograph charger at each stop to give 3-4 minutes of top up.
Is there any good resource talking about how these companies are addressing any concerns with potential command and control being in China?<p>I would guess they all have companies (and servers) in the EU and the US manned by citizens of these nations and outside of CCP control?<p>I’m not 100% sure because local governments usually don’t care about these things when purchasing products.
Despite a 100% tariff on cars imported to the US by BYD. They are already making buses in the US: <a href="https://en.byd.com/bus/about/" rel="nofollow">https://en.byd.com/bus/about/</a>