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In the Race to Electrification, the Humble Bus Is in the Lead
By 2032, about half of the world’s buses will be battery-powered, a milestone that will take an additional decade for electric cars.
La Rolita electric buses parked at the Perdomo depot in Bogota, Colombia.
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All over the world, buses are quickly and quietly going electric.
By 2032, about half of the world’s buses will be entirely battery-powered, as will almost three out of four buses sold, according to BloombergNEF’s seventh annual Electric Vehicle Outlook. It will take another 10 years for the global fleet of passenger vehicles to reach 50% EVs, and commercial trucking is decades away from that threshold. Even scooters are moving slowly on the road to electron-driven transport.