Just a few years ago, electric buses routinely faltered in cold conditions, reinforcing doubts about whether they could replace diesel and natural gas-burning fleets in northern cities. Now, with better batteries and strategically placed chargers, Madison is at the forefront of a small but growing number of cities testing whether those doubts still hold. Making the technology work through a long Midwestern winter could reshape how others approach electrification. Some 3.6 million commuters nationwide rely on buses to get around. With transportation accounting for roughly 28 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, transit agencies are looking for alternatives to polluting machinery that creates a particular health risk around bus stops.
Electric school buses have been shown to improve school performance of the kids that ride in them. Breathing fewer diesel fumes would be beneficial to anybody.
The same kids littering school yards with vape pens?
Whataboutism.
Yes. But even better for the kids would be to not breath the fumes from the 20% emissions coming from passenger vehicles and the 37% from non-passenger work vehicle family passenger vehicles (credit to Rollie Williams for that term)
Having more public transport and especially more electrified public transport would definitely help with that. I still don’t really know what you’re getting at here.
Removing the 57% of transportation emissions from individualized transit is more important than the <2% from public transit.
Not that we can’t do both, just where priorities and performance measures should lie.