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Ive wanted this for very long. Ofc its a very small number, not even enough for a single city but a good step.
Even better would be to produce them locally. One of our biggest environment issue causing EXTREME smog and terrible air quality is the way oil is refined, so solar is very useful, we're also heavily using of for power.
PS. Take a look at the global air quality index....
400 buses is a good number for a city of half a million or so.
Karachi is 18 million or so.
Lahore is 15m.
This is 400 buses for the BIGGEST province. Which lahore is a part of.
Pretty sure the definition of city is not being one of the 30 largest settlments in the world.
Article says 400 buses for all of Punjab, I say it isnt even enough for a single city in the province. How on earth are you turning this into a pedantic and pointless argument
Because I have looked up bus fleet sizes before and 400 is a good number for a smaller city. The E12PRO they are buying seats 40 and has 30 standing places, so a capacity of 70 people if full. 400 buses * 70 people capacity = 28,000 people, which can be transported in those buses at the same time. For a small city that is plenty.
China has about 900,000 buses and a population of 1.4billion so a bit less then 0.7 buses per 1000 people. So the 400 buses would be enough for 570,000 people, which is a pretty decent size city.
I mean TBF, article says some of them are 9 meter buses to, so back of the napkin math is obviously off, but also like, as a starting off point its good, Charging infrastructure is a longer term investment to build up the whole supply chain, Delhi is only now going to stop its older CNG buses this year after starting of with a few hundred buses back in 2019ish