When you have your tour in Beijing first, you will be interested in the numerous trolley buses running on the streets in the city center of Beijing. There are totally 21,000 Beijing public buses. Beijing trolley buses are getting increasingly popular because it is powered by electricty. The smog-choked Bejing government has annouced its ambitious plan to phase out old oil burning buses by 2017 and introduce more buses driven by elctricity, or natural gases and low-emission diesel.

The world’s first passenger-carrying trolleybus appeared at Bielatal in Germanyon 10 July 1901 . About 56 years later, that was on February 26, 1957, Beijing’s first trolleybus began commercial operation from Beichizi and Fuchengmen. By 1966, trolley buese had replaced all the trams in Beijing.

Beijing plans to purchase the lastest models of trolleybuses that will be driven either through overhead cables or onboard lithium ion batteries. The trolley bus will be able to be operated for 8 to 10 hours offline, becoming an important par of Beijing City transportation.