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The End of Diesel: Europe’s Buses Are Going Fully Electric — Fast

cleantechnica.com The End of Diesel: Europe’s Buses Are Going Fully Electric — Fast - CleanTechnica

Europe’s electric bus revolution is unstoppable. Battery models dominate new sales as hydrogen fades. Cities are embracing cleaner, cost-effective transit.

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The Netherlands, which had once allocated 20% of its new city bus purchases to hydrogen in 2021, has now completely phased it out.

The earlier we accept that hydrogen is a dead end for most road-related use cases, the better. Good that new city buses now run mostly electric.
- A while ago I was talking to someone form Toyota's sustainability team and they were FROTHING over hydrogen. I don't know much about it, but that surprised me.
  
  Because Japan needs to import most of its energy, it makes more sense to burn the energy at the wheels then behind the wires
I haven't seen a single electric bus in czechia

we do use a lot of trams and trolleybuses, but still quite a lot of loud busses
- All the trams are electric and from my experience (Brno) there's lots of those.
- Czechia is slower to migrate to electric buses than most EU countries.
  
  Great chart! Who are "EU27"? Total average?

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