PROGNOSIS * USA
* Colorado / USA - Report: More than 75,000 Electric Drive Buses Will Be on Roads Worldwide by 2018
Boulder,COL,USA -Pike Research (PR), by Richard Martin -August 22, 2012: -- No other category of heavy duty vehicles has seen more adoption of electric drivetrains than buses. In North America, hybrid models have captured as much as 40 percent of new transit bus purchases in recent years. Electric drivetrains – whether for hybrid systems, battery electric, or fuel cell – hold appeal for the bus market for many of the same reasons they do for light duty vehicles: the promise of moving away from oil, efficiency gains, limiting greenhouse gas emissions, and, in many cases, lower operating costs. According to a recent report from Pike Research, a part of Navigant’s Energy Practice, the global market for electric drive buses is expected to grow steadily over the next six years, with a compound annual growth rate of 26 percent from 2012 to 2018. By 2018, the report concludes, more than 75,000 electric drivetrain buses will be in service around the world...
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