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Ethiopia - Trolley bus Factory in Debre Markos on track
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Ethiopia - Trolley bus Factory in Debre Markos on track
Ethiopia - Electric bus manufacturing on track
By Andualem Sisay
Capital
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - RusAfro Trolley, the first electric bus in Africa which is soon planned to be manufactured in Ethiopia, will arrive in Addis Ababa on August 18, 2007.
“Besides solving the public transportation problems of Addis Ababa, it also contributes a lot in protecting the environment from pollution,” says Engineer Getachew Eshetu, Manager and owner of Afro-Asia Technical Trading Enterprise and 70 per cent share holder of Ethio-Russia electric bus. One Russian company works on the body of the trolley bus, while another other deals with the electrics.
The company is scheduled to discuss on Tuesday with the Ethiopian Electric Power Light Authority and decide on the first line for the trolley bus. One trolley bus costs around 100,000 USD in Europe but the company is planning to manufacture the buses at less cost. It also plans to reduce the cost to bus users in Addis Ababa by half.
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The agreement to manufacture electric buses in Ethiopia was signed among the three parties last October: two Russian companies with 15 per cent shares each and 70 per cent from Engineer Getachew Eshetu. Currently the factory is under construction in Amhara Region, Debre Markos on 40,000 square meters. Except for some electrical components all the parts will be manufactured locally, according to Engineer Getachew.
When the factory becomes fully operational it is expected to create jobs for 5,000 employees and the cost of transportation is also expected to decline by then. According to the study conducted by the manufacturers, Addis Ababa needs 1,200 trolley busses to give service for the ever-increasing residents of the city by reaching at least one station in every 15 minutes.
The company plans to manufacture 500 trolley buses per year and is also undertaking studies to provide for other African countries. Uganda, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania and Nigeria are the countries that the company is planning to undertake studies to introduce its products.
Back ground about electric bus from the Internet will be added.
Trolley bus powered by two overhead wires, from which it draws electricity using two trolley poles. Two poles are required in order to accommodate the return current, which cannot pass to the ground as in the case of an electric tram (also called an streetcar) since trolleybuses use rubber tires, rather than steel wheels on rail.
The history of the trolleybus dates back to April 29, 1882, when Dr. Ernst Werner von Siemens ran his “Elektromote” in a Berlin suburb. This experimental demonstration continued until June 13, 1882, after which there was little progress in Europe, although separate experiments were conducted in the USA.
The next development was when Lombard Gérin operated an experimental line at the Paris Exhibition of 1900 after four years of trials. Max Schiemann made the biggest step when on July 10, 1901. The world’s first passenger-carrying trolleybus operated at Bielathal (near Dresden) in Germany.
The first trolley vehicle in Russia was built in Saint Petersburg in 1902 at Frese machine building factory. It utilized a carriage-type current receiver like the early von Siemens prototypes. There was no attempt to organize passenger or cargo services at this time.
The first operational trolleybus service was introduced in 1933 in Moscow. In Soviet cities with underground metropolitan railways, trolleybus systems were intended to replace tramcars. In reality such plans were partially performed in the 1950s rather than in the 1930s. The first Soviet-made passenger trolleybus LK-1 was named after Politburo member Lazar Kaganovich. It was a dangerous and unreliable vehicle, quickly replaced by more advanced YaTB vehicles.
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ጥሩ ጅምር ነው ነገ ደግሞ እንደመስፍን ኢንጅነሪንግ ቆመ እንዳትሉን እንጅ መቸም ያሁን ጊዜ መንግስት በተስፋ ነው የገደለን፤ አለ አይደል ለክ እንደ የዚህ ሃገር ባለሃብት ኢንቨስት ሊያደርግ መንግስት ጋር ተዋዋለ አይነት….ቂ ቂ ቂ ቂ ቂ ቂ ቂ ቂ
if we have a chance we will folow you one day !!!!
Thank you for your GOOD JOB !!
It is possible (Yechalal)
Forget other sterile engineers My boy Getachew Eshatu is a real engineer and one of the builder of modern Ethiopia.
I don't know about making it from domestic products. Only the wooden seats could be totally local the rest needs some form of sheet metal and copper wires that are not produced, however there will be a value added from a partially processed imports too. In addition to this there will be a huge saving on foreign oil that consumes a lot of foreign exchange money. The annual repair cost of roads in rainy Addis Ababa, that needs a make up job now and then like a prostitute face is minimized. The trolley is a real mass transportation system. It only needs to increase or decrease the number of cars from the line, in busy hours and low need hours hours respectfully. It will be on time on every station at the scheduled time it has the right of way and does not encounter traffic jam. People will not be left like a full bus or uncertainty of when the next bus comes will be gone. It is one of the most important addition to decrease pollution, economic of scale brings down the price people will pay per trip.
One thing is not clear, it must be known it will not be an easy task to lay the rail line on the ground in the Addis Ababa terrain. One needs to make sure the initial investment coast will not be that cheap and needs to make the right assumptions in the feasibility study. It is the type of project that a small entrepreneur could be able to finance it. Unless one assumes to sale stock or share to the public to raise capital. The Ethiopian Electric power Authority is another possible stock holder and the federal government or the Addis Ababa city government that is going to assume the cost of compensation to the land that will be reclaimed from land lords or public land, could be other partners. It takes away the precariousness of the bus and will decrease the waiting time which will increase the productivity of every employer and employe and the city state at large.
This is a project with several merits most important of all being that it is an investment that favors the public well. Good lack and God bless this great vision of yours. Engineer Getachew Eshetu.
Before they the providers of Tanks and planes Now the trolly Bus .
I remeber when i was just in Rusia driving in the Russian Cities with Trolly Buses .
May be its not Bad to deal with them about the Rail ways they have the best rather than any country in the world .
God Bless Ethiopia !
I am sure that one day i will come back home country and do some thing Special for my Ethiopia.
ART.
Give power to the elected.
persimist.
God bless you and our country.
Long levee Ethiopians !!!
the good news,however,is that the long forgotten town of debre markos has finally been put to the glare of media. God bless!
"One thing is not clear, it must be known it will not be an easy task to lay the rail line on the ground in the Addis Ababa terrain." -> If you read the article well, you would have noticed that the topic was about Electric bus not "Trams". They don't need rail road!
Debelo or lather ther is no difrence
jump for the development of Ethiopia ,
so let us do some thing for our people,instead of talking about politics etc.
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