What is more efficient in terms of greenhouse gases, buses with diesel engines or electric buses charged with Diesel Generators ?
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Buses for long trips in winter with modern diesel engines might be even to electricity in terms of consumption, which would make them better taking into account the production of the batteries. The more trips you make, the better the electric bus gets.
For buses driving around cities, the diesel engine can not compete with the electric one. Bus most buses are operated for a long time bevor getting exchanged, so the electrification will take time.
If you had fixed routes for electric buses with electric cables along the routes, you would get trains. Passengers trains are driving mostly electric for decades (at least in Europe) because they are so much more efficient and therefore cheaper. Diesel trains drive on remote routes with very few passangers because the initial cost for the electrification can only be split between a few passengers.
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