{"id":29969,"date":"2023-09-14T23:46:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T04:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev?p=29969"},"modified":"2023-09-14T17:38:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T22:38:33","slug":"belize-city-council-to-launch-e-transit-pilot-project-with-electric-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/belize-city-council-to-launch-e-transit-pilot-project-with-electric-buses\/","title":{"rendered":"Belize City Council to Launch E-Transit Pilot Project with Electric Buses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Belize<\/p>\n

The Belize City Council is in the process of procuring two electric buses as it prepares to launch its E-Transit Pilot Project in December. The council, through the project\u2019s implementing agency, the UNDP, recently concluded a procurement exercise where competitive bids were submitted and reviewed. The Chinese company, Build Your Dreams (BYD), was then selected to supply the first two electric buses for the one-year EU-funded pilot project. The council\u2019s e-transit coordinator, Niel Hall, explained that once the buses are in the country, testing will be done to ensure the launch of the project is smooth and beneficial.<\/p>\n

Neil Hall, eTransit Coordinator:<\/b>\u00a0\u201cWhen they arrive it\u2019s going to be both a relief and a jolt because that\u2019s when the work starts happening all over again. Upon arrival we have several training programs, one that\u2019s technical, the other one that\u2019s for drivers, which by the way we will be looking for drivers so if you know anybody who wants to be a driver of one of these electric buses please tell them to send their information to us. We\u2019d love to hear from them, males and females, but also we\u2019re excited because we are ushering in something new for Belize City. As you know our buses that we use are a little bit on the antiquated side. And these are going to be brand new 2023 buses with the features and amenities of 2023 buses. These are low floor buses, which we\u2019ll be able to accommodate for older\u00a0<\/i>and handicapped passengers to have them to start using the public transportation system and give them greater independence. They\u2019re also going to be, like you said, smarter buses where we\u2019ll be giving you amenities like well, AC is not an amenity that\u2019s smarter, but air conditioning inside the buses. You\u2019ll have ports so that you can charge your phone while you\u2019re in the buses. We\u2019ll also have, we\u2019re working with the telecommunication carriers so that how we can get internet on the buses and we\u2019re just looking forward to bringing municipal transportation, public transportation to that next level. We\u2019re looking forward to when we bring this out and I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve noticed it, but buses in Belize City have actually started to look newer now. So we\u2019re hoping that the introduction of these buses has inspired the other municipal bus operators to start bringing in newer buses for themselves as well.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Neil Hall, eTransit Coordinator:<\/b>\u00a0\u201cThese buses cost over $300,000 US each. That\u2019s a heck of a bet to make to find out if it works. So we\u2019re very fortunate to have the EU to take that investment and to put it in the hands of Belize so that we can test and see if it works. I mean, yes, there are similar buses working in Barbados, which is also a small island state or even better, so it\u2019s an actual small island surrounded by salt water has more or less the same climate as we do here in Belize. And we know that these buses are working all over the world. So just to ensure that it would work in Belize is something that our bus owners, bus operators don\u2019t have to do themselves. After this project is done, that\u2019s when they can step in and say, okay, let\u2019s see how we can incorporate our knowledge, our help, our assistance, and how we can get our businesses to work together. In terms of you mentioned the excitement of having them here. We are truly, truly excited to be moving Belize City towards becoming a green city, to reducing the noise pollution because these buses are practically silent. We\u2019re looking forward to when these buses move forward you don\u2019t have that plume of smoke coming out of the end, causing both greenhouse gasses and carbon emissions that are unhealthy. Because I\u2019m sure, as someone who loves Belize City, you\u2019ve been beside a bus when it took off beside you and you had to, ahem, ahem, where we\u2019re eliminating all of that. Plus, we\u2019re also looking at the fact that these buses should be something that\u2019s economically feasible once they\u2019ve landed, once they start working because in a study done a few years ago, it was pointed out that on one gallon of gas a bus goes something like four miles per gallon. Using a bus like this, even if it goes one mile per kilowatt hour, a kilowatt hour is less than 50 cents so for less than $2, you\u2019re going that same 4 miles that cost you $11 in a regular, we call it ICE, internal combustion engine bus.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

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Belize The Belize City Council is in the process of procuring two electric buses as it prepares to launch its E-Transit Pilot Project in December. 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