Electric Bus Pilot Project Coming to Belize City

Bernard Wagner

Belize City Mayor, Bernard Wagner, says the council is exploring several ventures as new streams of income. The first being an electric transit system. The Mayor says three buses will be placed on an identified route in a one year pilot project.

Bernard Wagner, Mayor, Belize City Council

“First one we are looking at. As you may know, we recently launched along with the E.U., and our implementing partner U.N.D.P., the e-transit, electric bus transit system. That is an initiative that has been long in the making and it towards low carbon and e-piloting type transport, really transforming the entire transport sector in the country and in Belize City. Belize City has been chosen as one of the cities that will identity a route. So, we will be receiving three buses, electric buses to run a route. But, it is a pilot project that will run for one year. During that time we will be able to gather the required data. We want to see how these electric buses take to the terrain of Belize City, to the climate and how the charging station mechanism work, the timing of the route. We will use the three busses on the route to get the timing down, because we want to put a system that is reliable, efficient so that when it becomes reliable the residents of the City, those professionals people, those workers can now rely heavily on it and say instead of me driving to work I know this bus will be there in the next ten minutes because it will be completely Wi-Fi, had all the information, the next bus coming in the next ten minutes. That is the type of vision we have for this electric bus system.”