Thread: Transport Ministry mulls over electric bus purchase plan

BANGKOK, 18 April 2015 (NNT) – Deputy Permanent Secretary for Transport Phongchai Kasemtaweesak disclosed that he would propose a plan to buy the first batch of 500 electric buses instead of NGV buses to Transport Minister Prajin Juntong next week after a study shows that electric buses are more cost-effective in the long run.

The Deputy Permanent Secretary for Transport said a comparative study of cost-effectiveness between electric and NGV buses indicated a future decline in maintenance cost for electric buses compared to NGV ones.

Although an electric bus can cost as much as 15 million baht per unit which is three times more expensive than an NGV-run counterpart, Mr. Pongchai explained the fuel cost of electric buses tends to lower due to their increased popularity in many countries, whereas the fuel cost of NGV buses is likely to go up owing to the shrinking resource of NGV.

Mr. Pongchai said the Metropolitan Electricity Authority would undertake the construction of charging stations, if the Minister of Transport approved his idea. The Transport Deputy Permanent Secretary plans to replace the second batch of 2,694 NGV buses, which the Ministry of Transport previously considered buying with the electric buses.

The Ministry of Transport earlier approved the first batch of 489 NGV buses. The procurement is still in the process of bidding.

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Although an electric bus can cost as much as 15 million baht per unit which is three times more expensive than an NGV-run counterpart, Mr. Pongchai explained the fuel cost of electric buses tends to lower due to their increased popularity in many countries...

I'm so glad Mr. Ping Pongchai cleared that one up.

The economic arguments against this madcap scheme are so colossal they could only be ignored by an imbecile or a crook.

Mmmmm....

...an electric bus can cost as much as 15 million baht per unit...

Give them to the same apes to drive, yes.

fuel cost of electric buses tends to lower due to their increased popularity in many countries

... a classic non sequitur... well done, sir.

why not overhead wires?

Now, where should I start ....???

Originally Posted by JayZee

Now, where should I start ....???

Here is a point to ponder, bring back the trams then you only need to string one wire, LOL

Now, the question is who is in the government has the exclusive rights to import those buses...

air pollution levels in bangkok must be horrendous.

watching people on the way to banglampoo having dinner outside on the pavement with red buses puking out all that black shit.

and we suck it up. deadly indeed.