--- title: Why Electric Trucks and Buses Are the Next Green Revolution description: Why electric trucks and buses are the next green revolution, how the cancer moonshot could work and more. canonical: https://time.com/4276076/electric-trucks-buses-next-green-revolution/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-30T16:01:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:11.555Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why Electric Trucks and Buses Are the Next Green Revolution og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4276076/electric-trucks-buses-next-green-revolution/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Electric Trucks and Buses Are the Next Green Revolution twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why Electric Trucks and Buses Are the Next Green Revolution by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 30, 2016 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 30, 2016 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**When bigger is better: Electric trucks and buses will take a big bite out of emissions.**](http://e360.yale.edu/feature/when%5Fbigger%5Fis%5Fbetter%5Fpush%5Fis%5Fon%5Fto%5Felectrify%5Flarge%5Fvehicles/2976/) By Cheryl Katz in Yale Environment 360 **2\.** [**‘Carpet bombing’ our enemies isn’t as simple as it sounds.**](http://warontherocks.com/2016/03/getting-the-law-right-on-carpet-bombing-and-civilian-casualties/) By Charles Dunlap in War on the Rocks **3\.** [**If we’re going to beat cancer, this is how.**](http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-03-30/curing-cancer-is-within-reach) By Vice President Joe Biden and Michael R. Bloomberg in Bloomberg View **4\.** [**This is the conversation we actually need to have about NATO.**](http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/25/opinions/nato-future-debate-stavridis/index.html) By James Stavridis at CNN **5\.** [**Like data-driven journalism? Thank Florence Nightingale.**](http://thisisstatistics.org/florence-nightingale-the-lady-with-the-data/) By This Is Statistics  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4276076/electric-trucks-buses-next-green-revolution/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4276076/electric-trucks-buses-next-green-revolution/"},"headline":"Why Electric Trucks and Buses Are the Next Green Revolution","datePublished":"2016-03-30T16:01:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:11.555Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4276076/electric-trucks-buses-next-green-revolution/","keywords":["Innovation","Cancer","ISIS","Journalism","Electric Cars","NATO"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4276076/electric-trucks-buses-next-green-revolution/","name":"Why Electric Trucks and Buses Are the Next Green Revolution"}}]}] ```