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Old 11-23-2021, 01:09 AM   #79 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by redpoint5 View Post
Maybe so, but there's enough buses in the world to justify a purpose-built EV design rather than shoehorning in some electrical in place of ICE componentry. That's just 1 example too, and there's plenty of other machines just begging to be electrified and purpose-built, like garbage trucks... and letter carrier vehicles, back to the purpose of this thread.
The entire US bus market (school and transit) is less than 50,000 units per year split over a bunch of manufacturers.

The electric bus market is projected to total 27,000 over the next decade.
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