Another positive environment friendly development by UAE

Abu Dhabi (Capital of UAE) will soon have environmentally friendly electric buses plying the roads to transport passengers.

Two fully electric vehicles will be released by the third week of October to obtain passenger responses within the city of Abu Dhabi and its suburbs. The trial vehicles will be in operation for six months, before the DoT (Department of Transportation)determines whether they will become a permanent replacement for the currently used diesel buses.

The benefits of this initiative are many.:

1. these vehicles release virtually no by-product into the atmosphere.

2.the cost of purchase and maintenance is cheaper than the buses we currently use.

3.They are also easier to develop as they are technologically-based.

The lifespan of the electric buses is shorter by 10 per cent in comparison to the hydrocarbon vehicles we normally use, but even then we would only have to replace the battery and not the entire bus.

During the trial phase, surveys will be handed out to passengers to test the buses? level of comfort.

According to a DoT official, the bus takes an average of four hours to be fully charged and can travel an average of 200 kilometres a day under a full load, as opposed to the 120 kilometres per day average of the current fleet.

The best part is they are not going to change the tariffs for the new buses .

 Source :Gulf News