Staff Reporter :
Currently, there are about one million electric vehicles, locally known as “Easy-Bikes”, that are transporting 2.5 crore passengers in both townships and rural areas across the country every day, a study report revealed this at a seminar in the city on Thursday.
It said though the growth of Easy-Bikes’ market is expanding rapidly, there is no policy in this regard with a view to controlling the vehicles’ movement and providing standard license.
According to the study report, private entrepreneurs are importing and assembling the vehicles in the country and consuming around 450MW electricity for charging batteries daily.
Lack of state level policy and fixed charging stations, vested groups are involved in illegal electricity trading. As a result, the government has been losing a huge revenue each year.
The volume of Easy-Bikes’ market is about 17,500 crore which includes 5,000 crore battery requirement every year, the study report said.
The Asia Foundation and Rahimafrooz Solar have pursued the study titled, “Promoting Standard and Energy Efficiency of Mass Transport Electric Vehicles to SDG Goals” which is presented by advocate Md. Mahboob Murshed in the seminar.
Supreme Court’s lawyer Md. Mahboob Murshed and Lecturer of Department of Development Studies of Dhaka University Ebney Ayaj Rana jointly conduct the study paper.
BUET Professor Ijaj Hossain, Head of access to Rahimafrooz Quazi Ahmed Faquque and Deputy Director of BSTI Md. Sajjadul Bari, among others, spoke in the seminar.
The study suggested that combustion of fossil fuel in the transportation sector results in
increasing emission of greenhouse gases. But the locally assembled Easy-Bikes have shown potentials of immense opportunity in conserving environment, use of green energy, generate huge employment, developing local automobile industry and a revolution in the mass transportation system in Bangladesh.
The Easy-Bike gave enormous financial, social and environmental opportunities in the aspect of over populous Bangladesh. Despite huge potentiality, Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) is unable to register Easy-Bikes as motor vehicles, provide licence, route permits and fitness certificate for them for some procedural and mechanical short comings, the study find.
On a stopgap arrangement, Easy-Bikes are now plying on roads with parking number given from City Corporation and even from Union Parishad.
The study explored the current status of Easy-Bike as an environmental-friendly transportation system in Bangladesh, especially in rural areas. It also stressed for regularizing Easy-Bikes by removing mechanical and legal short comings to make them as a means of efficient mass transportation system in Bangladesh.
It also revealed regional and international experiences of introducing electric vehicles as a public transportation system.
Currently, there are about one million electric vehicles, locally known as “Easy-Bikes”, that are transporting 2.5 crore passengers in both townships and rural areas across the country every day, a study report revealed this at a seminar in the city on Thursday.
It said though the growth of Easy-Bikes’ market is expanding rapidly, there is no policy in this regard with a view to controlling the vehicles’ movement and providing standard license.
According to the study report, private entrepreneurs are importing and assembling the vehicles in the country and consuming around 450MW electricity for charging batteries daily.
Lack of state level policy and fixed charging stations, vested groups are involved in illegal electricity trading. As a result, the government has been losing a huge revenue each year.
The volume of Easy-Bikes’ market is about 17,500 crore which includes 5,000 crore battery requirement every year, the study report said.
The Asia Foundation and Rahimafrooz Solar have pursued the study titled, “Promoting Standard and Energy Efficiency of Mass Transport Electric Vehicles to SDG Goals” which is presented by advocate Md. Mahboob Murshed in the seminar.
Supreme Court’s lawyer Md. Mahboob Murshed and Lecturer of Department of Development Studies of Dhaka University Ebney Ayaj Rana jointly conduct the study paper.
BUET Professor Ijaj Hossain, Head of access to Rahimafrooz Quazi Ahmed Faquque and Deputy Director of BSTI Md. Sajjadul Bari, among others, spoke in the seminar.
The study suggested that combustion of fossil fuel in the transportation sector results in
increasing emission of greenhouse gases. But the locally assembled Easy-Bikes have shown potentials of immense opportunity in conserving environment, use of green energy, generate huge employment, developing local automobile industry and a revolution in the mass transportation system in Bangladesh.
The Easy-Bike gave enormous financial, social and environmental opportunities in the aspect of over populous Bangladesh. Despite huge potentiality, Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) is unable to register Easy-Bikes as motor vehicles, provide licence, route permits and fitness certificate for them for some procedural and mechanical short comings, the study find.
On a stopgap arrangement, Easy-Bikes are now plying on roads with parking number given from City Corporation and even from Union Parishad.
The study explored the current status of Easy-Bike as an environmental-friendly transportation system in Bangladesh, especially in rural areas. It also stressed for regularizing Easy-Bikes by removing mechanical and legal short comings to make them as a means of efficient mass transportation system in Bangladesh.
It also revealed regional and international experiences of introducing electric vehicles as a public transportation system.
