Where are the Electric Buses?

Well they do have hybrid busses.

But nobody really cares about the CO2 output because it doesn't cause a problem. In fact it's plant food.

In Vancouver, BC and San Francisco and I think Seattle has them too. Many major cities have them. The correct name is trolleybus, and they travel long distances, they can go fast (when there aren't any overhead switches), and have LOW co^2 emissions. Battery-electric buses are another thing, but it makes much more sense to just use trolleybuses.

Buses have always been one of the places used for trials and to advocate new ideas:

It was buses that were used to destroy the extensive electric trolley lines in the US in the National City Lines scandle: http://www.almankoff.com/0322scandal.shtml

The first electrified buses were another outgrowth of the electric trolley lines. They don't use batteries and in some cities have been around for decades. Instead they have used overhead wires and electricity is transmitted to them. They sometimes go under the name of trams, trackless trolleys or trolleybus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus

To extend such systems and to change the routes some places began using a kind of electric hybrid technology. Buses that could get their power from the lines and have some electrical storage for the places where the electric wired did not continue. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/11/altairnano-pr...

And perhaps one of the most interesting is a plan to put the wires under the pavement for induction pickup: in is sometimes called the online electric vehicle (OLEV) http://www.kaist.edu/english/01_about/06_news_01.p...

The first application for flywheel energy storage electric buses was in Switzerland over 50 years ago and later in the UK: http://www.commentary.net/view/atearchive/s76a4325...

With its short stops ultracapacitors have been considered an ideal energy storage for regenerative braking in buses. Singapore now has buses that go even further and charges a bank of ultracapacitors at stops for its electric buses: http://www.sciencebuzz.org/blog/ultra-capacitor-bu... here is the same story in written form: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/23754/

They're called trolleys, or street cars, and they're in a lot of places.

There's also passenger trains and subways, both are electric.

And they emit less co2 then a regular bus, even if you calculate for pure coal power, which isn't the case in the real world.

yes it's about time something is moving in the right direction

we cannot carry on as business as usual or future generation will pay a bigger price

supply usually meets the demand. change is often slow.