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TechInAfrica – Golden Arrow, a leading public vehicle transport services operator in Cape Town, South Africa, has officially sent two fully electric modes of transport to ship passengers starting in July.
The Golden Arrow Bus Service (GABS) has been pushing to reduce fossil fuel byproducts from its transportation fleet and start using more sustainable energy sources. The transport service, which has been reviewing Cape Town workers for over 160 years, launched its eco-friendly energy project in 2016, with cooperation including Golden Arrow, New Southern Energy and the City of Cape Town.
The organization, which carries around 250,000 travelers every day, put in place the two electric modes of transport on Monday with authority. These transports are to operate between Retreat and Cape Town, forcing commuters who have been severely affected by the outage of MetroRail passenger train services on the metro.
The main period of this electric vehicle program included the installation of a limited scale solar power system at Golden Arrow’s main terminal in Epping. The company’s second and third periods extended this durable power system to incorporate 2,500 panels fed by panels based on the top of GABS Multimech stop.
Following the underlying realization of GABS’s solar power system, a one-year trial program was set up to assess the feasibility of sustainable solar-powered transport on the streets of Cape Town.
According to Business Insider reports, the experimentation program found that the fully stacked electric transports had a range of around 300 km before waiting to be powered back on. The pilot project was extensive. It was provided by Chinese BYD with grants from the uYilo eMobility program and was carried out without human travelers.
Two types of transport were attempted, one unfilled, the other loaded with barricades identical to the weight of 44 travelers.
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