E-TRIKES LAUNCHED — Electric tricycles or e-trikes start to ply along San Fernando City, La Union this week. Ten e-trikes were launched on Tuesday in Barangay Tanqui as part of the city's environment-friendly mode of transportation program. (Erwin G. Beleo)
San Fernando City, La Union — In its bid to promote environment-friendly modes of transportation, the city launched the other day the new route of 10 electronic tricycles or e-trikes in this province’s capital.
“The plan is to have an organized system of transportation here,” said Noel Dimaano, the sales and division marketing of Bemac Electric Transportation Philippines Inc., during the launch in Barangay Tanqui, here.
Dimaano said the city government designated the fixed routes of the e-trikes so that passengers can be conveyed to key government offices and tourist attractions around the city.
The City Government of San Fernando partnered with Bemac, a subsidiary of Japanese firm Uzushio Electric Co. Ltd., for the launching of the e-trikes.
Under the partnership, Bemac allowed the e-trikes to ply the routes for free in the next three months so that passengers can have a feel of the new mode of transport.
Dimaano said that after this phase, passengers will have to pay P15.00 each for a 6-kilometer long ride along the designated routes.
Community Environment and Natural Resources Officer Katherine Muller confirmed that the company has been given authority to operate in the city. “When its trial run becomes successful, there will be a need to form an association of e-trike drivers who will handle the units,” she said.
Rose Ann Valdez, City Environment and Natural Resources Office coordinator, said the e-trikes have their own designated routes to avoid competition with fuel-powered tricycles.
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The electric tricycle or E-Trike program of Manila Mayor Joseph “Erap” Estrada finally kicked off on Wednesday with the formal turnover of 50 environment-friendly tricycles to the first batch of driver-beneficiaries in Binondo.
Estrada hopes his E-trike project will help uplift the lives of the city’s “poorest of the poor” by providing them with an alternative and sustainable source of income.
The Estrada administration is launching its E-trike project to combat air pollution and improve the livelihood of some 1,500 legally franchised tricycle drivers in the city.
"This is primarily a livelihood program with the main objective of providing our poor tricycle and 'kuliglig' drivers an upgraded public transport vehicle which they can call their own, and from which they could earn more," the Manila mayor pointed out.
"Here, they don't need to pay any 'boundary' [installment payments]," Estrada added, "and the costs of charging their E-trikes' batteries will even be subsidized by the city government."
The Estrada administration is launching its E-trike project to combat air pollution and improve the livelihood of some 1,500 legally franchised tricycle drivers in the city.
Aside from these, there are about 25,000 colorum tricycles, pedicabs and kuliglig or motorized pedicabs operating in the city.
The city government has bought 280 units of E-trikes, at P400,000 each, for distribution this year. The Manila Electric Co. or Meralco has constructed several charging stations, the first in Binondo.
The Japanese-manufactured E-trikes run on gel-type batteries than can be fully charged in just five hours. It can carry up to six passengers and has a maximum speed of 40-45 kilometer per hour (kph).
Estrada said the city government will procure "thousands" more of these E-Trikes to gradually replace fuel-run tricycles in the coming years, thus complementing the city government's efforts to reduce air pollution in the city.
"They would be driver-operators in a matter of four years. How much to they need to pay daily? (A small amount). They'll even charge their batteries for free," he added.
The E-trikes will be financed through a "boundary-hulog" system where the driver-owners will only pay the city government P250 a day for four years at zero interest, Manila Traffic and Parking Bureau chief Dennis Alcoreza said. The E-Trikes will have exclusively franchised routes, so as not to compete with fuel-run tricycles, he added.
The first batch of 50 beneficiaries were all residents of District 3, which has been chosen as the pilot site for the E-trike project. The district covers the areas of Binondo, Quiapo, San Nicolas, and Sta. Cruz.
E-Trikes will also be introduced in Malate, Ermita, and University Belt, per Alcoreza.
"This project is entirely a livelihood program for the masses. The city of Manila is not intending to profit from this livelihood program, unlike other financing institutions. We'll have no profits, no add-ons," Alcoreza stressed.
"We just want to provide the poorest of the poor the opportunity to earn more for them to improve their kind of living," he added.
BEMAC Electric Transportation Philippines Inc. has signed a memorandum of understanding with the City Government of Puerto Princesa for a pilot operation of two electric tricycles within the city.
BEMAC is giving the e-Trikes to Puerto Princesa for free and shall operate them until the end of 2016. Puerto Princesa Mayor Lucilo R. Bayron signed the MOU with Yvonne Palomar-Castro, Bemac Electric Transportation Philippines vice president for Sales, Marketing and After Sales.
Puerto Princesa has a history of undertaking projects to promote environmental sustainability and preservation. The United Nations declared the city as a "Biospheric Reserve," and is acknowledged to be the country's last ecological frontier.
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DAVAO City and Manila—The first thing one hears on an electronic motorcycle—e-trike it's called—is nothing. The e-trike fails to produce the ear-piercing screams of revved-up motorcycle engines running on fossil fuels.
Earlier this month, the Philippines once again participated in the annual international Earth Hour Event, switching off lights for one hour to promote the reduction of carbon emissions. World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the organizer of the event, held the main stage at the Quezon City Memorial Circle. The organizers intended the event to be a showcase of climate solutions, featuring renewable sources of energy.
Kinumpirma ng Uzushio Electric na sila ang nanalo sa bidding ng 3,000 units ng E-Trike sa Pilipinas para palitan ang tradisyonal na tricycle at madagdagan ang kita ng mga drayber at mabawasan ang polusyon sa bansa.
Ayon sa pahayag ng Uzushio Electric na naka-base sa Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture, natanggap nila ang abiso na nagsasabi na sila ang nanalong bidder para sa E-Trike Project ng Department of Energy (DOE) at Asian Development Bank (ADB) sa contract price na $30,747,000.
MANILA – The Department of Energy (DOE) said it is ready to offer the electric-tricycle (e-trike) program to growing tourist areas and economic zones.
”The DOE remains open to all local government units (LGU) as E-trike off-takers of their respective localities to be used in tourism growth areas and mixed-use economic zones,” it said.
TAGUIG CITY, Feb 29 – The Department of Energy (DOE), committed to push for alternative transport, recently awarded the contract for the procurement of electric tricycles under Package 1 of the Market Transformation through Introduction of Energy-Efficient Electric Vehicles (E-Trike Project) Program. The said contract was awarded to Uzushio Electric Company, Limited at the ceremonial signing held on February 15, 2016.
Energy Secretary Zenaida Y. Monsada said, “One way of reducing our carbon emissions is through transforming our transportation system, in which we are looking at the E-trike project as a catalyst to encourage entry of more efficient modes of public transport.”
This Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded project is also envisioned to revitalize the public transport sector and support the nascent industry by offering energy-efficient electric vehicles in the market.
Following the ideal timeline of the project, the E-trikes will ply the streets of the National Capital Region, and Region IV-A & B on or before May 2016 for the initial roll out of 3,000 e-trikes units.
After the conduct of the international competitive bidding consistent with and after obtaining ADB’s no objection, Uzushio emerged as the lowest evaluated and substantially responsive bid among those who joined the bidding for the E-Trike Project on May 06, 2015. Uzushio, a Japanese firm, is represented locally by BEMAC Electric Transportation Philippines, Incorporated. The DOE remains open to all local government units as E-trike off-takers of their respective localities to be used in tourism growth areas, mixed-use economic zones, wide swath of campuses as well as residential enclaves. (DOE)
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