1 Comet Electric Vehicle 2 Mantra
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For decades, the dirty diesel-burning jeepney has been the colorful face of public transportation in the Philippines. That may by about to change, with the introduction of the COMET (City Optimized Managed Electric Transport): a new approach to the traditional system, based around an eighteen-passenger electric vehicle.
Not only does COMET do away with the diesel, it also aims to improve on practically every other aspect of the customer experience. Produced by Global Electric Transport (GET) in partnership with American firm Pangea Motors, these battery-powered people movers are each equipped with CCTV cameras for safety, WiFi and a cashless payment system called TITO (tap in, tap out) for convenience. Operators will not only get additional training to help avoid some common dangerous driving practices, they will be paid salaries (with benefits and bonuses) in an effort to discourage unsafe fatigue from extra-long work days. Additionally, a financing program for owners will make it easy to replace their current jeepneys.
The vehicle itself is similar to the traditional jeepney, with no side glass for that open-air feeling and bench seating. It's said to have enough range to go 100 kilometers (62 miles) between charges and uses an AC motor to take advantage of regenerative braking and lower maintenance. Top speed is regulated at 60 kph (37 miles per hour) for safety.
The first half-dozen vehicles are just now being completed, but with an agreement in place for 10,000 more for transport group Pasang Masda, the company is hopeful it can reach its goal of producing 20,000 over the next five years. That would certainly be a step toward hitting the country's goal of one million electric vehicles by 2020.
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Sanskrit - Human Culture and Civilization
December 8 at 12:23am
Saḿgacchadhvaḿ Mantra
When we look back and examine the period from 10,000 years ago to 5,000 years ago, we find that the speed of human progress had greatly accelerated. At intervals of every two or three hundred years some new discoveries were made. As a result of frequently facing new challenges, the human mind underwent revolutionary changes: animal husbandry gave way to agriculture and scattered communities evolved into more compact societies.
Yet in the period from 10,000 years ago to 5,000 years ago, nowhere do we find a well-knit social order, although we do find comprehensive efforts to build a society.
The Vedas present a vague picture of the varied advances made during that 5,000 year period which, judged by modern standards, cannot be called rapid progress. The Vedas are the literary reflection of the psychic characteristics of that time. In that age, when rays of light gradually began to pierce the darkness, people started to realize the need to move together more rapidly.
In some of the mantras and hymns of the Vedas, particularly in the Saḿgacchadhvaḿ mantra (from Rg Veda, ca 12,000 years old), the seed of this collective dynamism was sown.
For decades, the dirty diesel-burning jeepney has been the colorful face of public transportation in the Philippines. That may by about to change, with the introduction of the COMET (City Optimized Managed Electric Transport): a new approach to the traditional system, based around an eighteen-passenger electric vehicle.
Not only does COMET do away with the diesel, it also aims to improve on practically every other aspect of the customer experience. Produced by Global Electric Transport (GET) in partnership with American firm Pangea Motors, these battery-powered people movers are each equipped with CCTV cameras for safety, WiFi and a cashless payment system called TITO (tap in, tap out) for convenience. Operators will not only get additional training to help avoid some common dangerous driving practices, they will be paid salaries (with benefits and bonuses) in an effort to discourage unsafe fatigue from extra-long work days. Additionally, a financing program for owners will make it easy to replace their current jeepneys.
The vehicle itself is similar to the traditional jeepney, with no side glass for that open-air feeling and bench seating. It's said to have enough range to go 100 kilometers (62 miles) between charges and uses an AC motor to take advantage of regenerative braking and lower maintenance. Top speed is regulated at 60 kph (37 miles per hour) for safety.
The first half-dozen vehicles are just now being completed, but with an agreement in place for 10,000 more for transport group Pasang Masda, the company is hopeful it can reach its goal of producing 20,000 over the next five years. That would certainly be a step toward hitting the country's goal of one million electric vehicles by 2020.
#mantra
Sanskrit - Human Culture and Civilization
December 8 at 12:23am
Saḿgacchadhvaḿ Mantra
When we look back and examine the period from 10,000 years ago to 5,000 years ago, we find that the speed of human progress had greatly accelerated. At intervals of every two or three hundred years some new discoveries were made. As a result of frequently facing new challenges, the human mind underwent revolutionary changes: animal husbandry gave way to agriculture and scattered communities evolved into more compact societies.
Yet in the period from 10,000 years ago to 5,000 years ago, nowhere do we find a well-knit social order, although we do find comprehensive efforts to build a society.
The Vedas present a vague picture of the varied advances made during that 5,000 year period which, judged by modern standards, cannot be called rapid progress. The Vedas are the literary reflection of the psychic characteristics of that time. In that age, when rays of light gradually began to pierce the darkness, people started to realize the need to move together more rapidly.
In some of the mantras and hymns of the Vedas, particularly in the Saḿgacchadhvaḿ mantra (from Rg Veda, ca 12,000 years old), the seed of this collective dynamism was sown.
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