2009Oct16: More than a fifth of Beijing’s 20,000 city buses are fueled by compressed or liquefied natural gas, making it the largest such fleet in the world (New York Times).
Reference: New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/world/asia/17beijing.html
Image Description: Beijing buses parked and waiting for the 60th anniversary of PRC parade to end. Photo by Scott meltzer, 2009Oct1. Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:City_buses_on_streets_of_Beijing.JPG Image Permission: The copyright holder of this work, hereby releases it into the public domain. This applies worldwide.
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