The first electric bus has arrived in Jamaica, as part of the Government’s pilot project to replace diesel buses with more environmentally friendly ones.
Speaking with Our Today, Robert Morgan, minister without portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for information, said: “What JUTC is doing, they are testing to see how it can manage the Jamaican terrain compared to the diesel buses.”
Morgan said the Government’s aim in introducing electric buse is to assist in improving the environment as wel as the commuting experience of citizens.
“They are testing the ratio between diesel buses and electric buses. Electric buses are different from diesel buses. They do not pollute the environment, but we have to see how it affects our transportation system.”
Morgan said the government will not be importing any more diesel buses.
The minister further stated that the buses were to be ordered from 2019, as part of the electric vehicle policy developed by the Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology.
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