The Chinese EV company Yutong has just delivered 400 battery electric buses to Pakistan. It's the largest single order of 'new energy' buses in the country to
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
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