 Welcome back to the breakfast on plus TV Africa and it's time for us to take a look at our first topic Which has to do with the introduction of electric buses for public transportation in Lagos state And I have as my guest mr. Ola reward you or la boy is a software engineer and coding instructor You're welcome to the program. Yeah, good morning. Good morning. All right, so how excited of you about these Electric buses Yeah, I'm super excited about it because Is a Nigeria is taking one of the right step to the future For for a while now many countries of the world are trying to look at what are the impact of Some some activities we do as humans on the environment. How does our CO2 emissions? How do they affect? climatic change how do they deplete the ozone layer and cause greenhouse effects and Many countries even places like Indonesia are trying to have plans a long-term plans to Make sure that their public sector Transportation majorly is moving towards the usage of alternative energy instead of the Conventional combustion based energies which we get from our petroleum so I believe Lagos doing this is is a step in the right direction but I will be asking Many questions about it one is What is like the long-term plan so for instance? Of course, it takes it takes It's easy to get something but it takes more effort to maintain to keep so what is the plan in terms of How to manage it the charging What is it? What is the plan? This is this first set will be used to test run it Okay. Yeah, it will be used to test run it because just like you I have such questions How can it be charged and driven in the rain? Can it be charging driven in the rain? Yeah, I believe so because of course we've all been hearing about Tesla Tesla I haven't driven one, but I'm very sure people out there They drive it in snow come rain come sunshine so far you have enough Energy stored in your battery. So I believe it can be driven in the rain. Of course, it should be Because of course, we are not even in in the in the dry season. We are in the rainy season So it can be driven in the rain But what I would look at is because when I read the news they said they are partnering with Oando energy Limited or something clean energy limited and those are the people that are going to be enabling them to charge this So the question I will be asking is The question I will be asking is how many of such charging stations do we have can they sustain these buses and What are the plans that? particularly from the aspect of Data what are the plans of the Laker State governments in terms of knowing what is what is the because one one very big argument against alternative energy So far is always the cost the cost of Maintaining Storing those energy the cost of maintaining how you How you recharge them maintain I maintain them So it's so what's what's the data saying and what is their plans to track these data? So for instance in a place like Indonesia like I mentioned they have Different people that are like data analysts that have come up with different models to even calculate What is the reduction in the CO2 as a result of? introducing such buses They've even gone to the length of okay Even during COVID-19 they try to do they just try to do an observation and they saw that they are CO2 emission dropped by around 35 to 39% Just because people stopped commuting so what so we should look at it from Replacement point of view we are replacing using this guy to replace the carbon and what's and also I Think those are the next thing to be looking at me. Jolly. You're asking very interesting questions Some of these questions are we had hoped you would answer, but we understand that you are not Government so we can we can understand that but one of the questions though that some people Legations particularly will be asking is will this be cheaper? Than the ones they've been using the BRT they've been using will this be a cheaper option for them Do you do you know to that effect? I don't know But one thing I know the government for is most times when they want things to work they they wouldn't even mind to subsidize The usage for stats. So Is it's going to be cheaper? I don't think so, but I Think we can look at what we can just be on the lookout and see what the legal state government and the the commission in charge of transportation Are going to come up with in terms of the billing for the usage of of these electric buses But if I am to take a guess I will feel like the impact on the government buses is going to be More huge than they actually explained on BRT the conventional BRT we've had but The end price they give to the customers I think they might subsidize is for the beginning to to get more people on board To create because this is also to an extent is going to also create another venue because even the government at this point Since they are not using the conventional buses. They also want to partner with Maybe tech companies to give them real-time dashboards that gives them information about those and I also don't know the technical depth of what is built into This into these buses because it's also possible that the manufacturers have actually made many things like calculating many things about The movement of those buses Yeah, the range of how long it can go on a particular energy level. Yeah So so I think those are the next thing that's but if we can really introduce some things like this on a very large scale I also believe is going to not only I Improved the CO2 emission in Lagos. I believe it's also going to positively affect the health of Lagosians because there is less fumes to You know I was I was reading and I saw that the making of the cars create more emissions And that's contradictory isn't it because if it takes a look creates more emission in the making of a vehicle How sure are we that is going to reduce emissions? Well, you know, you know the role of this it's it's like an argument actually because even at the global stage some head of states we tell you they don't believe in climate a climatic change in all these Global warming we've seen big politicians from different countries say that because because some believe it is an agenda That the climate is just always changing and even from the little we all learned in geography Back then in school like a climate is basically How your weather changes over a longer period of time? So that means giving sufficient enough time Even from what we're taught in school your climate is meant to change. That's just the way it's meant to be so Is this so that is now that now it depends on which side of the fence you are home if you believe Climatic change is a real threat To the environment so our ability to get eroded as a planet. So that is That is your own point of view and if you also believe that it's normal for it to change for instance, I don't know How valid it was I was reading something online that there is maybe a particular town In some country that is trying to go fully virtual because where they are land area is the Ocean is actually encroaching their land. So they have less so they are trying to move out But they don't want to lose like their heritage. So they are trying to create an online platform for their people to stay So we can't say it is entirely a lie, but we also can't say that Yeah, yeah, it's yeah I think it's it's based on it's based on whether you see the glass as our feud or half in empty So that's just my own answer to that. Well, no in endurance as you do and make let's specify Let's be more specific knowing legutions as you do. Do you see them embracing this in terms of psychology? Do you see them in person this yeah, I believe so because one thing is this I There's one thing about Legations it's that Anything that is kind of Trending particularly in the outside world if there is going to be a state or a city in Nigeria that is going to try to adopt It first it's most likely going to be Lagos So so I believe most legations are they are open-minded to new things to new idea It's like the Lagos we kind of so I don't think legations We have issues using it. In fact, it might even make more people when people feel like oh It's easier or it's faster for me to get to work. I'm using these electric buses You see more people even probably deciding to use to use the public buses very well because we also during The introduction the first introduction of PRT it actually did improve the gridlock Situation in Lagos until over over time that many things came into play change of power and even how the overall Implementation of all the rules around the maintenance of the beauty the management of the traffic around it How it's been run since after that time? Took us to where I was taking us to where we are kind of so so so I That that's my own answer to that also. All right. Well, thank you so much for your Insight on this will take a break and come back to take a look at web development, which is your specialty, isn't it? Stay with us. We'll be right back