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# Fact Check on David Lee’s Claim
- URL: https://goodoil.news/fact-check-on-david-lees-claim/
- Published: 2019-07-09T01:00:58.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-09T01:00:58.000Z
- Author: Guest Post
- Tags: NZ, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

By **Straight arrow**

**The Claim:**

> Lee said the preferred trackless tram solution for Wellington could be 10 years away.  
>  
> **In Shenzhen, China they accomplished a fully-electric bus fleet of 20,000 buses in just two months.**  
>  
> “In the west we tend to be quite sluggish because money is a big factor,” Lee said.  
>  
> [Stuff](https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/113788343/green-candidates-say-they-want-wellington-to-become-a-plastic-free-city?ref=goodoil.news)

  
**Factcheck:**

> In just **eight years**, Shenzhen became the first city to electrify 100 percent of its public buses—**16,359,** to be exact.”  
>  
> [citylab.com/transportation](https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/05/how-china-charged-into-the-electric-bus-revolution/559571/?ref=goodoil.news)

  
David Lee is a Green councillor.