Beijing aims to vastly increase the amount of electric buses in its fleet by the start of the next decade. The city’s public transportation system has been stressed by massive urbanization projects. File photo by Stephen Shaver/UPI | License Photo Aug. 2 (UPI) — The mass transit fleet of buses in Beijing could expand to roughly 10,000 by the start of the next decade, a director at a public transportation group said Wednesday. Zhong Qianghua, the deputy managing director for the Beijing Public Transport Group, said each new electric bus in Beijing would eliminate about 45 tons of carbon dioxide emissions every year. There are currently 1,000 electric buses utilized in Beijing. “The proportion of buses purely powered by electricity among the total public transport vehicles will increase from the current 10 percent to 60 percent in three years,” he was quoted by the official Xinhua News Agency as […]