“Waiting for the electric bus”

Battery-powered urban buses will eventually replace combustion engines in Germany’s public transportation systems, writes Christoph M. Schwarzer in Die Zeit. He says they will be cleaner and become significantly cheaper in the near future. “Rapidly dwindling costs for battery systems provide a decisive push and a source for optimism in the industry,” Schwarzer writes. Dropping prices would enable municipalities to afford electric urban buses, he adds. Since many communities also produce their own energy, the price difference to diesel fuel will become even greater, thereby making “diesel engines no longer competitive in the medium-term”.

Read the article in German here.

For more information on electric mobility see the CLEW-Dossier The energy transition and Germany’s transport sector.

For insight into German carmakers’ efforts in green transportation, see the CLEW-Dossier The Energiewende and German carmakers.