California Requires New City Buses To Be Electric by 2029 (nytimes.com)

California has became the first state to mandate a full shift to electric buses on public transit routes, flexing its muscle as the nation's leading environmental regulator and bringing battery-powered, heavy-duty vehicles a step closer to the mainstream. From a report: Starting in 2029, mass transit agencies in California will only be allowed to buy buses that are fully electric under a rule adopted by the state's powerful clean air agency. The agency, the California Air Resources Board, said it expected that municipal bus fleets would be fully electric by 2040. It estimated that the rule would cut emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases by 19 million metric tons from 2020 to 2050, the equivalent of taking four million cars off the road. Environmental groups said the new regulation was an important step in cutting tailpipe emissions, which are a major contributor to global warming and California's notorious smog.

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good, they can import more energy than

[pgmrdlm]

https://www.eia.gov/todayinene...
You do notice that this is from the U.S. goverment. Unbiased enough for you?

n 2016, the California grid region, which covers most of the state and a small portion of Nevada, imported a net daily average of 201 million kilowatthours (kWh) throughout the year from other western regions, or about 26% of its average daily demand. Those imports were supplied by the other two regions that make up the Western Interconnect (WECC). The Northwest region of WECC, which includes most of Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming, Washington, and a small area of northern California, supplied a daily average of 122 million kWh. The bulk of the remaining imports to the California region, 68 million kWh per day on average, came from the Southwest region of WECC, which includes much of Arizona, New Mexico, and small portions of Nevada and Texas.

I'm only posting this link because it is from the California Goverment, and it provides a break down of how the energy they produce is broken down. Good information.

https://www.energy.ca.gov/alma...

Re:Cool. Runs on coal.

[willaien]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

I mean, maybe in general. But this is California we're talking about.

Re:Cool. Runs on coal.

[matthewd]

It's not "cleaner" CO2. Burning natural gas simply produces /less/ CO2 than burning coal to generate the same amount of electricity.

I'm old enough to remember when environmentalists viewed natural gas as a "bridge" fuel on a path to reducing CO2 emissions. Then of course fracking resulted in an abundance of natural gas supply and it became bad.