Bangkok moves towards becoming the electric transportation capital of Asia

[snoop1130]

 

Bangkok, 11 June, 2021 – With electric ferry boats now plying the Chao Phraya River, an electric monorail in operation, and electric tuk-tuks accessible by app, Bangkok is well on its way to offering commuters a much-welcomed – and environmental-friendly – interconnected urban transportation system. 

 

In its 20-year plan to develop the nationwide public transport system, the Thai government is promoting the use of electric vehicles to help reduce air pollution in the metropolitan areas and cut down on carbon emissions everywhere. It wants 30 percent of the transport system to be electrified by 2035. 

 

In Bangkok, the efforts towards achieving seamless urban transportation connectivity include the linking of electric trains, buses and boats. Already, passengers can switch between the MRT subway and BTS Skytrain networks and electric river ferries thanks to the close proximity of selected stations and boat piers.

 

Full Story: https://www.tatnews.org/2021/06/bangkok-moves-towards-becoming-the-electric-transportation-capital-of-asia/

[Shuya]

Hub! Hub! Hub!

[JamieM]

Damn this headline just doesn't feel right without the "hub" ???? have we killed the hub headlines?

[Surelynot]

14 minutes ago, JamieM said:

Damn this headline just doesn't feel right without the "hub" ???? have we killed the hub headlines?

I think they have twigged...........it all got too much. Going to be........."capital of" .....at least for a while.

Edited June 11, 2021 by Surelynot

[Patong2021]

So what if  transport is  powered  by "electric".  In Thailand, it is no better than other fuel system. Most of Thailand  electricity is generated from burning fossil fuel; 20% is coal, 65% is natural gas. Even hydro electricity  results in significant  environmental damage as the dams and reservoirs destroy natural wetlands, forests and environment.  Hydro power plants heat water killing off ecosystems. 

Very easy to blame  conventional fuel, but  the reality is that conventional  fuel is here for next 25+ years. The target must be to cut down the dangerous emissions from the dirty exhausts of the vehicles on the road now. Removing many of these dirty  vehicles will deliver immediate results. Maybe someone has pointed out that Thailand carbon emissions are increasing and someone in Ministry of BS felt it necessary to distract with silly media release.

[RobMuir]

3 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

So what if  transport is  powered  by "electric".  In Thailand, it is no better than other fuel system

Nah, I don't know if you have ever been to Bangkok but the old diesel buses and trucks, petrol tuktuks etc stunk the place out.

 

The more electric vehicles the better.

 

Much quieter also.

 

It will be a great improvement.

 

 

 

[bendejo]

Fake news!!!

If this were a real report someone would be pointing at the boat.

 

 

[vicbkk]

The monorail is a complete useless system. It doessn''t do anything to help most of the residents of Charoen Nakorn Rooad who had to endure years of jams and delays 

[Asquith Production]

Here in the N.E you cant even buy an electric bike unless its a cheap Chinese import with a lead acid battery.

[nervona81732]

13 hours ago, Shuya said:

Hub! Hub! Hub!

HUB BUB!

[TKDfella]

Sure glad they don't try anything electric where I live...we've had five power cuts in ten days. Local office says it's because birds nesting inside junction boxes.

[hotchilli]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

With electric ferry boats now plying the Chao Phraya River, an electric monorail in operation, and electric tuk-tuks accessible by app, Bangkok is well on its way to offering commuters a much-welcomed – and environmental-friendly – interconnected urban transportation system.

Pleaseeeeeeee stop it.

[newnative]

I'll believe it when motorcycles are required to be only electric in the city limits.

[Peterw42]

Better crank up the output from those fossil fuel power stations, Oh, and maybe remove the 300% duty on imported electric cars and bikes. But otherwise its all good.

[Excel]

Don't knock it. Everything electric will mean that when BKK subsides beneath the waves in 50 years  it will be of no use anyway.

[Gandtee]

Not another claim to fame! An electrical hub? I thought pride was frowned upon in Buddhism ????

[Mansell]

14 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

So what if  transport is  powered  by "electric".  In Thailand, it is no better than other fuel system. Most of Thailand  electricity is generated from burning fossil fuel; 20% is coal, 65% is natural gas. Even hydro electricity  results in significant  environmental damage as the dams and reservoirs destroy natural wetlands, forests and environment.  Hydro power plants heat water killing off ecosystems. 

Very easy to blame  conventional fuel, but  the reality is that conventional  fuel is here for next 25+ years. The target must be to cut down the dangerous emissions from the dirty exhausts of the vehicles on the road now. Removing many of these dirty  vehicles will deliver immediate results. Maybe someone has pointed out that Thailand carbon emissions are increasing and someone in Ministry of BS felt it necessary to distract with silly media release.

I think your way off on your 25 + years. Electric cars are moving very fast literally and figuratively.......already car companies are stating a year when they will quit ICE (internal combustion engine) and move to electrics. Tesla’s latest has a range of 400 miles, and the chargers are solar powered. It took 75 years for most houses to have a phone......it took only 5 years for most houses to have a computer and cell phone. Changes are coming faster and faster. The big plus of an electric vehicle is almost a complete lack of maintenance. This alone saves money and time. A production Tesla car just broke the speed record for production cars, faster than a million dollar Ferrari and a two million dollar plus Bugatti. The times they are a changing.

[Uroller]

Maybe a good time to buy scalextric shares????

[Burma Bill]

18 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

promoting the use of electric vehicles to help reduce air pollution in the metropolitan areas

 

[PETERTHEEATER]

18 hours ago, Shuya said:

Hub! Hub! Hub!

No, no, no. Capital, capital, capital. Hub is sooooo yesterday.

 

 

[bangon04]

9 hours ago, newnative said:

I'll believe it when motorcycles are required to be only electric in the city limits.

imagine climbing over the mountains of discarded electric scooters in the streets

[Surelynot]

5 hours ago, Burma Bill said:

 

Can't beat trams....they are the dogs....no doubt about it.

[newnative]

10 minutes ago, bangon04 said:

imagine climbing over the mountains of discarded electric scooters in the streets

Even better.  I'd rather climb over one than be run over by one.

[MrJ2U]

Wonderful.

 

A new area for Cheap and unreliable Chinese imports.

[Gandtee]

1 hour ago, Surelynot said:

Can't beat trams....they are the dogs....no doubt about it.

Unless you are riding a bike over the tram lines in the rain. Been there. Got the tee shirt.????

[Nojohndoe]

Some extreme and strangely negative opinions here IMO.

It is true that a signifiant amount of electric energy is currently produced using fossil fuels.

But does anyone refer to the efficiency in the use of that in electric  vehicles overall.

Fossil fuel powered vehicles are far  less than 50% ( 47% best achieved ) efficient in conversion to mechanical propulsion and high carbon emissions.

Electric powered vehicles comparative conversion up to 90%.

Fossil fueled electric power plants are 50% upwards with coal being the worst and with carbon emissions.

The transport distribution of fossil fuels inherently has it's own loss at the less than 50% conversion rate and carbon emissions and additional electrical energy for pumping stations for individual refilling  of low efficiency  fossil fuel vehicles.

The distribution of electric energy also has a percentage of energy loss. No carbon emissions.

Charging stations are direct grid based delivery to electric vehicles with some small energy loss.

With carbon emissions being the primary concern with reference to climate change it is obvious that if the world wishes to continue to proliferate and promote the use of private transport that electric vehicles will take the market.

Nobody can deny that the production of various alternative mass electric energy utilizing new technologies does not itself create some quite nasty pollutive waste (rare earth mining/extraction, storage  battery waste etc) but it can be argued that that does not generate the atmospheric  carbon emissions which remain the more immediate concern.

The  genuine focus on utilizing electric energy and the method of producing it is still in infancy compared to the historical and comparative  neanderthalic but lucrative ripping and raping of oil,coal, gas deposits that nature had spent millions of years tucking away underground to provide  the atmospheric conditions the last few  generations of humans had the advantage of .

 

 

[josephbloggs]

11 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Pleaseeeeeeee stop it.

Stop what?  Like it or not, Bangkok IS on the way to having a well connected urban commuter rail network.  What is your issue with that?  Or would you rather just pretend it's not happening?  About 170kms of electric mass transit already running, 125kms more coming online in the next couple of years, and a total of around 540kms by the end of this decade.  That will put Bangkok in the world's top 4-5 commuter metro systems by total length.

After decades of being way behind where it should be Bangkok is actually doing an incredible thing that few cities have done in such a short period of time.  So again, why do you think it's not happening?  

 

 

[Surelynot]

15 hours ago, Gandtee said:

Unless you are riding a bike over the tram lines in the rain. Been there. Got the tee shirt.????

.........or you are stupid enough to confuse the tramlines for the road in the centre of The Hague........very embarrassing !!!!

[Katipo]

Not doesn't. It's years behind other countries in the region. If you mean just Indochina, ok, maybe. You can write an article about the progress Bangkok is making without needing to use the word hub or capital each and every time.

[Gandtee]

2 hours ago, Surelynot said:

.........or you are stupid enough to confuse the tramlines for the road in the centre of The Hague........very embarrassing !!!!

Pardon? I haven't been to the Hague but grew up with trams in London UK.????

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