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Podcast: News Bites
Episode: Electric Buses, Immortal Jellyfish, Tea Health
Description: In today's news, with Clifford and Trevor:
Taiwan's buses go electric, scientists study a creature that can live forever, and tea helps prevent serious disease.
Stay tuned for more on those stories, coming up next.
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台北公車2030年實現全電動化
Taipei Buses to go All Electric by 2030
Electric vehicles have become more and more popular in recent years.
近幾年電動車越來越受歡迎。
They don't burn gasoline (汽油) or diesel (柴油), so they don't directly produce any CO2 (二氧化碳).
In fact, many countries and local governments are banning the sale (禁止銷售) of new gas or diesel vehicles in the future.
The Taiwan government is also getting in on the trend (趨勢).
This year they announced that all of the public buses on the island would be electric by 2030!
So...