croso –you get the power from the sun,and wind.and these cars take less maintenance than regular cars less moving parts you see.
don’t understand comment about ;
1) We have proven that we cannot and choose not to service current technology and implement simple processes for improvement

2) Mass electric motors are simply another way to utilize energy.
i fixed your misspelling of utilize for you.
you just don’t get it do you?
any way it is out there .
do nothing and perish,or move ahead with technology and improve your lives.
your all decision.
why do i feel like banging my head against the wall now.lol

The simplicity of it all does not connect with the reality for one people are so attached to their cars and the abilty to move at faster pace that one would be hard press to see little johhny and mary giving up their auto mobile for a scooter. Sargeant is making salient points in addressing the overall cost in the long term and as much as man like to be greedy the poor little guy would always be suckered punch left holding the bag with all kind of outrageous charges

@ Harry callihan | August 25, 2012 at 7:38 AM |

Harry the dirty callihan, no need to be pedantic between an “s” and a ‘z”.

Focus on the major issues. You have a solid argument to defend so stick to your ground and I will continue to support you in this cause. What you are proposing is the future of transport in Barbados.
Never mind the naysers and doubting Thomases. Yet these same people with the typical Bajan attitude of “da can’t wuk bout hey” have said nothing against the government’s propaganda of greening policies and strategies to wean the country off fossil-based fuels. None of them, especially ac, has dared speak out about the energetic dichotomy flowing forth from the hypocritical tanks of both political parties.
So because we have incompetents currently running things both at the operational and administrative level we should not embrace new technologies. Why not get rid of the incompetents and fix the road infrastructure instead of bashing the technology of the future ad nauseam, ad absurdum?
These luddites would even oppose and find reasons why a very interesting proposal that was already put to the government but resuscitated on this blog by Beverly Yearwood | August 24, 2012 at 3:24 PM cannot be implemented or is workable.| “Suggestion that almost nobody in Bim will ever take seriously: the Bermuda approach. Maximum one car per household, no exceptions. Get a scooter. And enforce the law.”

What do you guys want? To complain ad nauseam and when alternatives are put on the table shoot them down like sitting ducks? Suppose Henry Ford had given into his critics, would we have a mass land transport system today or would we still have jackass carts and, in the Colonel’s case, horse and buggy? What about solar technology? Would we have solar water heaters in light of the initial opposition?
“Those who dare, win”! Nothing ventured, nothing gain!
Technology is the only means by which man’s existence becomes bearable and convenient enough for him to artistically think of a future. Adapt or perish. And as sure as night follows day, man will perish unless he stops overfilling the carbon sinks. Man has put more carbon in the atmosphere in the last 200 years than Nature took millions of years to remove to accommodate mankind’s short existence on this planet.
Think on these things before dishing dirty harry’s suggestions!

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@ ac | August 25, 2012 at 11:33 AM |
“but what some of us are talking about is cost until a drastic reduction in the overall cost is found to implement all of what harry is talking about we will be four steps forward and six steps backward cost and implementation is a driver behind technology”

You have just been hung by your own petard and sown the very seeds to destroy your own argument.
Every new technology is always faced with initial high costs. It is by buying into and widening its usage that unit costs of production and distribution are reduced over time.
Ac, do you remember when the PC first came on the market? What is the cost of a PC today?

Reinvent the wheel and come again with you totally poor appreciation manufacturing economics and marketing of technologically new or innovative products.

@miller”These luddites would even oppose and find reasons why a very interesting proposal that was already put to the government but resuscitated on this blog by Beverly Yearwood | August 24, 2012 at 3:24 PM cannot be implemented or is workable.| “Suggestion that almost nobody in Bim will ever take seriously: the Bermuda approach. Maximum one car per household, no exceptions. Get a scooter. And enforce the law.”

What do you guys want? To complain ad nauseam and when alternatives are put on the table shoot them down like sitting ducks
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Good lord. Yuh cyan read man? THE POINT IS one cannot talk about such things when the underlying infrastructure is not in place.

Specifically, as an example, your Bermuda approahc, how can that work when man and wife work and the transport system ispissily inefficient, when both may have travelling jobs, when no one in their right minds in bim would drivea motor scooter, knowing they will likely be waiting to get killed, that is not hearsay, fact. Only today a transport board bus pass me like a freight train on a narrow road.

IF you can get the ‘culture’ and implement strict changes in transport, THEN AND ONLY THEN, can you implement cost reduced and efficient methods.

THAT is what I said above re smaller cars, etc etc.

But until you get infrastructure changes and cultural changes in place IN REALITY, you are wasting time’

Next point, the electrical car is still in infancy AND a long way from competing monetarily with the petrol and diesel engine.

You all talk about cost this and cost that, but the whole issue in term sof cost, is that the average man cannot and could not afford it.

Even in the US and Canada, petrol and gas still rule.

Why yuh tink?

You all are talking bilge.

Sure, nothing wrong with UWI et al takling a leading rein, but that is in research and devlopment, far from implementaiton, which is currently , under current AND MEDIUM FUTURE scenarios, impractical and unworkable.

So, call people names and pigeon hole, but do not, do not, put in place ioiotic mechanisms (such as that garage road worthy certificaiton) that put the average man at disadvantage.)

At the end of the day, the average man dont care about the environment.

He cares about bread and butter on the table.

But you want environment and cheap? Horse and cart, cheap, environment friendly.

But wunnuh transport board buses would run them all down, passing at 60 mph and cutting.

Learn to balance ideas between theoretical, practical and the unlikely.

And understand the issue, before ranting about ‘bajans doan want tuh change’.

@Crusoe | August 25, 2012 at 6:28 PM |
“But until you get infrastructure changes and cultural changes in place IN REALITY, you are wasting time’ ”

What you have said in your post speaks volumes about the national psyche of Bajans.
Here we have a society that boasts so much about its exceedingly high rate or deep penetration of free education even up tertiary level yet something as important to our socio-economic survival is deemed too much of a challenge to even consider far less meet. What is the purpose of education? Why are we spending so many billions of dollars in education? To boast about our fast falling ratings on the Human Development Index (HDI) and our imaginary “developed country” status?

So what do we do, Crusoe? Be realistic like Man Friday and throw our hands in the air and wait for the culture to change and the infrastructure put in place by some unseen hands? Or should we be bold enough with some so called creative imagination and demonstrate to the world that “size does not matter” while extracting some returns or dividends from that exceedingly large investment in education, especially on the Hill?
Unless we seriously embark on a road of changing the way we do business in this country our standard of living and quality of life would come under tremendous attacks. Many of which would be self-inflicted. Many others, however, would be imposed upon us from outside like the buffeting we are presently and will continue to experience from the international economic adjustments taking place. We either adapt or perish. Waiting for something to change on its own will see us slipping further down the economic slope and the HDI.
The longest journey begins with the first step. Or more precisely: “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”. – Lao-tzu.
What are we waiting for? For the Chinese to lead us by exporting alternative energy solutions to our culturally unprepared financially challenged island with its crumbling infrastructure?

@Crusoe

Research will tell you that the two things against electric cars is the cost compared to conventional vehicles because of the batteries. The cost of the battery for electric cars will come down with mass production. The other is the infrastructure issue i.e. being able to ‘gas’ up on demand. These are issues a creative people can confront. It must be said however that BU’s own preference is the Hybrid model. Miller has made the good point that as a country we can create power sources fueled from alternative sources of energy. Barbados has a solid reputation in the field of solar energy now is the opportunity to take it to the next level. Stop saying can’t.

This is a challenge for Barbados which can be viewed from so many angles. Why not zero rate Hybrids for 1-2 years to allow the market to respond? In the same way many in the market buy gas guzzlers others may want to buy Hybrids to show commitment to greening etc. If the government is serious about the environment it should do all it can to permit consumers to access products which will help. It would also assist in growing knowledge capital about a different kind of product. Other Caribbean islands are already selling Hybrids by the way.

cruso you do work for Simpson don’t you? or you are good at writing a lot of long talk witch amounts to nonsense.
OK lets wait another 10 years so we can be really far behind and still paying too much for electricity and gas..sit and drink you rum.lol

@Das Boot: “our current set of cars are polluting our air, thats why we have such high chonic diseases in barbados.

Could you please support that claim with evidence?

thank you ,it was my idea.i am indeed a forward thinking man.
now if i just had the money to set the thing up before some one takes my idea and steals it.

http://news.barbadostoday.bb/2012/09/15/switch/
dem steal my idea.of course.

http://youtu.be/Zq8VMB3n1-4

ELECTRIC TRUCKS :

http://youtu.be/iLkmfkSy1G8?t=35s

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