China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buses, Taxis and Trucks
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#2Relax! These articles remind me of newspaper articles fawning about the cute European mobile phones of early to mid 2000s admonishing us dumb Americans and iPhone happened.
Electric bus is not moon landing.
Edit: I don’t complain about downvoting, downvote to your hearts desire but stop absurdly flagging comments.
Edit2: one of top posts is a guy wishing dictatorship in west so he can get carbon tax, and but my tongue in cheek comment is the one that got flagged.
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#3Mercedes-Benz are starting to get in on the act with their buses and trucks.
Re: China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buses, Taxis and Trucks
#4Relax! These articles remind me of newspaper articles fawning about the cute European mobile phones of early to mid 2000s admonishing us dumb Americans and iPhone happened. Electric bus is not moon landing. Edit: I don’t complain about downvoting, downvote to your hearts desire but stop absurdly flagging comments. Edit2: one of top posts is a guy wishing dictatorship in west so he can get carbon tax, and but my tongu…
Aren't the iPhone's largely made in China though?
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#5Recently returned from China. The abundance of electric vehicles of all types was quite stunning. A lot of them seemed very high quality, too.
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#6Just came back from Shenzen, seemed like most of the taxis were electric. You can tell because they're blue vs the red gas taxis. Another ingenious thing they do is there's an added fee to ride red taxis, so people avoid them like they're plague-ridden when they have other options. I thought that was a brilliant use of taxing externalities, you let customers decide whether paying the fee is worth it.
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#7Relax! These articles remind me of newspaper articles fawning about the cute European mobile phones of early to mid 2000s admonishing us dumb Americans and iPhone happened. Electric bus is not moon landing. Edit: I don’t complain about downvoting, downvote to your hearts desire but stop absurdly flagging comments. Edit2: one of top posts is a guy wishing dictatorship in west so he can get carbon tax, and but my tongu…
Aren't the iPhone's largely made in China though?
The profits are largely accumulated by an American company in the case of iPhone. To the larger point, a state corporation in China is not subject to same laws of finance as a publicly traded company in the west. That is the gap, China does not have a technological or logistical advantage making electric buses.
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#8New Flyer, the US's biggest bus maker, is making battery-electric buses. But sales are low - 40 to Montreal, 10 to Toronto, 35 to Los Angeles. In comparison, Shenzhen recently replaced 16,000 of its buses with electrics, all from BYD.
Shenzhen also replaced all of its cabs with electrics.
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#10Relax! These articles remind me of newspaper articles fawning about the cute European mobile phones of early to mid 2000s admonishing us dumb Americans and iPhone happened. Electric bus is not moon landing. Edit: I don’t complain about downvoting, downvote to your hearts desire but stop absurdly flagging comments. Edit2: one of top posts is a guy wishing dictatorship in west so he can get carbon tax, and but my tongu…
Well the difference is: no consumer cares about the brand of cab/bus they’re sitting in