[sustran] Re: This is what happens when "green (private) cars" are promoted in the North

[Todd Edelman]

Eric,

I was only saying that they made a vehicle which will be probably be 
used privately, though I hope it used for informal or even formal 
carsharing. It would be great if it was "This is vehicle to use for when 
the big electric bus is inappropriate", and so on.

But, for example, will the tyres need to be imported from outside 
Africa? If I imported tyres to Uganda I would financially support a 
private electric vehicle project.

- t

  On 11/08/2011 11:17 AM, Joachim Bergerhoff wrote:
> The synthesis is clear: it is good news that there is an African 
> competence in innovative vehicles.  It would be better if this 
> competence was applied to sustainable transport systems, like BRT, for 
> instance.
>
> Why are Africa's large cities not equipped with BRT ?  Because there 
> are no functional and inexpensive mass transit systems on the market.  
> African public transport riders cannot afford an imported copy of 
> Curitiba and one cannot do BRT without a thought through high capacity 
> vehicle/station system.  Hence, the real challenge and best news would 
> / will be the re-engineering of the BRT concept to meet the capacities 
> and needs of the African manufacturing industry and mass urban 
> transport market.  Anybody working on this ?
>
> Joachim
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> 2011/11/8 eric britton <eric.britton at ecoplan.org 
> <mailto:eric.britton at ecoplan.org>>
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>     World Streets
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>     I appreciate your point Todd, but I think a bit differently about
>     this.
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>     The path to sustainable transport and sustainable cities, passes by
>     sustainable lives. Now what I like about this project is not that
>     it is an
>     EV and we all know of course by now that E-vehicles are more than
>     a bit of
>     hype when it comes to their claim as sustainable transport.
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>
>
>     But what I like about their project is the fact that a group of young
>     Ugandan students are putting their heads together to create
>     something that
>     is different and that is a great laboratory for learning and team
>     work.
>     It's not a sustainability project per se, but that they can learn
>     as a next
>     step.
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>     I see this as a step in a process and bravo to them (and to their
>     wonderful
>     University, Makerere, which thought all the turmoil's of these
>     recent hard
>     decades in Uganda has somehow endures when so much else fails and
>     suffers).
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>     Thanks for drawing this to our attention Todd.
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>
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>     Eric Britton
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>     -----Original Message-----
>     On Behalf Of Todd Edelman
>     Sent: Monday, 07 November, 2011 21:55
>     To: 'Sustran List'
>     Subject: [sustran] This is what happens when "green (private)
>     cars" are
>     promoted in the North
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>     Uganda’s First Electric Car Built by Makerere Students
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>     http://inhabitat.com/ugandas-first-electric-car-is-built-by-students/
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>     A group of 25 Ugandan students from Makerere University’s College of
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>     Engineering, Art and Design have built Uganda’s first electric
>     car, the
>
>     Kiira EV. Initially designed in 2009, the fabricated car was taken
>     for a
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>     public test drive last week. Most of the parts of the two-seater,
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>     including the core body and combustion system, were designed and built
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>     locally...
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>     Click on link for full story....
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