electric buses

Plugged-in public transport

Electric buses are buses powered by electric motors rather than internal combustion engines.

They run on batteries charged from the electrical grid, or in some systems draw power continuously from overhead wires.

Cities adopt electric buses to reduce emissions and noise: The transit authority is converting its fleet to electric buses.

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environmental impact

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Inefficient motor vehicles

technological modernity

electric buseshorse-drawn carriages

Vehicles pulled by equines

propulsion/fuel type

electric buseshybrid buses

Vehicles using multiple fuel sources

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G