The city of Seoul is going green with the roll out of probably the world’s first electric bus service in the city. The Seoul Metropolitan Government is going all out with working commercial service, developed in agreement with Hyundai Heavy Industries and Hankuk Fiber, and the buses themselves can run up to about 52 miles on a single charge (which takes about 30 minutes). Besides, it can also go up to 62 miles per hour. Though several other cities have small fleets of electric public transportation, Seoul has announced that half of its massive fleet of buses will be electric by 2020. This will be a good start, as South Korea International Expo 2012 is getting near.

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