r/electricvehicles • u/Splenda • 9h ago
News China’s EV Transition Is Four Different Transitions
https://cleantechnica.com/2026/10/17/china-ev-transition-use-cases/2
u/flyfreeflylow '23 Nissan Ariya Evolve+ (USA) 9h ago
Aside from not really understanding the difference between a "coach" and a "bus" it's four (or three if one lumps coaches in with either buses or trucks) different transitions everywhere else too.
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u/Bard_the_Beedle 8h ago
A coach is a long distance “bus”. You can’t group them together because the coach has the complexity of needing a battery that allows it to run for hundreds of km nonstop, while a city bus spends enough time at the station to be charged. And you can’t group it with a truck because it serves a very different purpose.
It’s four almost everywhere else. Some countries are small enough to not have the coach issue. But also, in most places the transition is slow in every segment, which makes it very different from China’s.
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u/flyfreeflylow '23 Nissan Ariya Evolve+ (USA) 7h ago
The distinction for electric city vs. intercity buses makes sense. In the US in general conversation we call both of those "buses". "Coach" could be a touring bus (typically nicer than the bus lines that run between major cities, like Greyhound) and is also used to refer to motorized RVs, which are generally built on conventional van, bus or truck chassis (all still ICE at present).
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u/Levorotatory 6h ago
Some city buses drive around for a few hours in the morning and a few hours in the evening and spend the rest of the day in the garage, but others are on the road from early morning until after midnight.
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u/Bard_the_Beedle 6h ago
Yes, but they have stops. It’s always feasible to charge them at some point, as opposed to coaches.
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u/CloudZ1116 8h ago
So many AI-isms in this article but it's still informative and makes some interesting points.
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u/isights 4h ago
Five. Or six. Or seven. Photo shows trains which are heavily being electrified but aren't mentioned. Then there's also been electrification in super heavy construction/mining equipment, and shipping.
China is going to electrify their nation to the point where their already impressive economies of scale are going to increase even more so. They're going to pay pennies to ship goods electrically, while the US spends dollars more on diesel.