Electric buses in Shenzhen, China. Photo by Kyle Field | CleanTechnica.
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Much or most of the news about the electrification of transportation is about personal transportation: e-bikes, cars, SUVs, pickup trucks, and electric motorcycles. This focus makes sense because many online readers are interested in such vehicles so content about them gets clicks, reads, and social media engagement. There may be far less interest, generally speaking, in fleet vehicles.
However, electrified fleet vehicles operate many hours per day and provide many benefits when they replace highly polluting gas and diesel fleet vehicles. Diesel buses move huge numbers of people, but they generate vast amounts of toxic air pollution that harms human health, contributes to premature human deaths, and contributes to climate change. Fossil fuels are the primary contributor to climate change, and fossil fuels regularly spill in water bodies and on land, harming wild creatures and contaminating habitats. Fossil fuels are also connected to geopolitical instability, corrupt politics, and dumb wars that have tremendous costs financially, environmentally, and to human lives.
