Shenzhen, China has already replaced all their buses with electric buses, and Shenzhen is much larger than KC.The only thing stopping electric buses (and cars) is the cost.earthling wrote:Did a search, looks like one battery bus model can get 45 miles with just a 10 minute charge. Other searches show 120+ miles on a full charge. Sounds like it's ready for prime time.
I think Proterra is in the lead with electric buses right now. They have a bus with an advertised range of 251-426 miles, but they were actually able to get over 1100 with it while hypermiling: https://www.proterra.com/press-release/ ... le-charge/