Some interesting highlights on the current state of US public transit vehicles from American Public Transportation Association. Now we know that there are currently over 1,100 ‘zero-emission’ vehicles in service across various cities and towns in the US. And of particular interest is the fact that 32% of buses on order are ‘battery electric buses’. This represents a great shift in country that’s generally percived to be ‘pro-private car’. And whilst there’s lots of federal money been thrown at adoption of low/zero emission public transit vehicles, efficiency of the US local supply chain when it comes to vehicle assembly and after sales is still posing a very big challenge. With the likes of Proterra and Van Hool going bankrupt, this leaves just only two bus manufacturing companies serving a country half the size of Europe (!). It becomes even more challenging when you factor in the ‘Buy America’ regulations attached to the federal funding. This ‘market distortion’, albeit unintended, has now created an ‘oligopoly’ market structure, which of course impacts pricing. Whilst this might not actually be problem for operators and transit agencies because govt is mostly responsible for writing off the cost of acquition of these buses through federal grants, operators/transit agencies still have to contend with procurement of spare parts (after sales). And with just two companies, we have seen lead time for delivery of parts increase significantly, thus impacting vehicle downtime. So if the US transit system is going to get ahead in this game of bus electrification, then the current friction in the local supply network needs to be fixed. As it is right now, it takes an average of almost one year from order to delivery of new electric bus in the US. Whereas, I can have a new electric bus ordered and shipped to me anywhere in the world from China in less than six months. #publictransit
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2moFor only 1100 no-emissions buses to be in service across the entire US is embarrassing. Although China's bus manufacturing is funded entirely by the govt, America has to find a solid way to get our buses off the assembly line much quicker in order to even try to compete.