E-Bus in the Philppines

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Korea eyeing collaboration with the Philippines on electric vehicles, smart grids



Published : Friday, June 17th, 2011
By : Manila Bulletin


The “hot technological trend” in this country right now is smart grid which will also integrate the massive deployment of electric vehicles. These are the areas of collaboration that Korea has offered to the Philippines.

“We are hoping that our members would be able to strike collaboration with the Philippines on smart grid or other ventures, such as electric vehicles. And we are also hoping that Korean companies will have greater investments in your country,” Byung-Il Park, director of the business promotion department of the Korea Electrical Manufacturers Association (KOEMA) said.

In the electricity sector, he noted that promotional and business matching activities are already being undertaken with the Philippines, especially in the sphere of reducing system loss for the electric cooperatives.

KOEMA, which counts the big Korean companies such as Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) among its members, noted that new opportunities may arise as “prospective partnership route” for both countries, primarily in the well-envisioned modernization of the electric grids.

Kepco, which also counts the Philippines as the initial base of its overseas investments, is now moving notches ahead in its smart grid investment project in Jeju island.

On alternative transport program, Korea is currently leaning more towards hybrid vehicles. Nevertheless, KOEMA indicated plans for the deployment of some 25,000 electric vehicles (EV) through 2012 – to be spearheaded by Korea’s homegrown carmarker Hyundai.

“Hyundai has the technology and the expertise which it can share with other countries, including the Philippines, if your government will open up opportunities,” Park stressed.

The propagation of electric vehicles will be part of Korea’s solution to reducing the emissions’ contribution of its transport sector. This is in line with its commitment to the Kyoto Protocol and the succeeding international agreement on climate change risk mitigation.

And with the integration of the charging stations/systems with the smart grid project of Kepco, the deployment of EVs is expected to eventually flourish.

The Philippines is also keeping an eye on its EV deployment aspiration – starting with the introduction of electric tricycles; and soon, electric buses.

There is a grand plan to put on the road some 100,000 e-tricycles in a stretch decade; while the ascend of e-buses in Metro Manila thoroughfares is expected to be more gradual as the supporting infrastructures have yet to be built also.

Korea eyeing collaboration with the Philippines on electric vehicles, smart grids | Eco-Business.com

[jpdm]

Just recently, Victory Liner brought in the very first electric bus (eBus) into the country.


http://www.google.com.ph/url?sa=t&rc...7Y47cahr8_MDbg

Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. leads the launching of battery-powered commuter bus


March 17, 2012 12:43 am


Executive Secretary Paquito N. Ochoa Jr. leads the launching of a battery-powered commuter bus called eBus at the Kalayaan Grounds of Malacañang on Friday (March 16, 2012). The Climate Change Commission has partnered with Victory Liner to produce the new breed of commuter bus under the program “Victory Against Climate Change.” The eBus, which can carry 52 passengers and run on 400-Volt Winston Rare-Earth Yttrium Lithium-ion battery with a maximum speed of 90 kilometers per hour, is one of the National Climate Change Action Plan’s responses to help reduce greenhouse gas emission in the country. (Robert Vinas/Malacañang Photo Bureau/PNA)
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Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. leads the launching of battery-powered commuter bus : balita.ph

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[ghosthunter]

That news article was in MARCH 2012.

It is now in the middle of JUNE 2012.

Will the e-BUS end up like the CNG-BUS government program?

[uls]

dyan magaling ang pinoy -- press release

[chua_riwap]

puro porma lang.......

[jpdm]

Taiwan, local firms tie up for e-bus project in Phl

By Rainier Allan Ronda
(The Philippine Star)
Updated August 22, 2012



MANILA, Philippines - Two Philippine companies have tied up with a Taiwanese electric car technology firm for the manufacture of electric buses in the country.

Greentech Motors Corp. and Statemotors, both all-Filipino companies, signed last Friday in Taiwan a memorandum of understanding with Taiwanese company RAC Electric Vehicles Inc. for a tripartite collaboration that will enable the manufacture of environment-friendly and energy-efficient electric buses in the country. This will hopefully reduce, if not eradicate, smoke-belching and dilapidated public utility buses from polluting the country’s major thoroughfares and highways.

Jan Vincent Kierulf, Greentech Motors president, said that with the alliance firmed up, they hope to assemble an initial batch of 10 electric buses here in the country before the end of the year.

Kierulf said that with the local assemble of the electric buses, they hope to make the environment-friendly “e-buses” more affordable for Philippine public utility bus companies.

It was learned that the cost of importing brand-new e-buses from other countries like Taiwan, China, and Australia ranges from P18 to P25 million, making it not financially-viable for many bus companies.

Greentech Motors, will be the lead company to pursue the local manufacture of the e-buses, with RAC Electric Vehicles providing the technology for the electric power trains manufacture.

Statemotors, a unit of State Investment of Allen Roxas, which bought the car assembly plant of the defunct Francisco Motors Corp., will provide the car assembly factory where the e-buses will be manufactured and assembled.

With the local assembly and manufacture of the e-buses, they project to bring down the cost of a brand-new e-bus to as low as P7 million.

Kierulf expressed optimism about the undertaking, and welcomed a commitment from Trade and Industry Undersecretary Adrian Cristobal to create a study group that will draw up a roadmap for the development of an electric vehicle industry in the Philippines.

source: Taiwan, local firms tie up for e-bus project in Phl - The Philippine Star » News » Business

[timrev]

ganyan sana kaporma bus natin


pwede din to


overhead electric connection

[ghosthunter]

Proposed Electric bus (locally assembled) = (as low as) P7M


Fully Imported TOURIST BUS = Php 4,950,000.00
CBU FROM CHINA
FULLY LOADED
EQUIPPED WITH REAR VIDEO CAMERA & MONITOR
FOR EASY MANUEVERING ON BACKING UP
6 CYLINDER DIESEL ENGINE
WITH TURBO INTERCOOLER
SEATING CAPACITY: 43 TO 59 SEATER
LINK: http://autodealers.multiply.com/phot.../BRAND-NEW-BUS


I wonder where did the news article get the estimated P18 to P25M price tag for each imported bus? Did someone just inflated the price to self-serve the article's cause?


Which one would a bus operator purchase?

[ecneret]

ganyan sana kaporma bus natin


pwede din to


overhead electric connection

ganito yung sa beijing. imo mas ok 'to, di talaga makaalis sa lane nila.

[niky]

The P18m price tag is probably for US- or Euro-made E-Buses. But even then, since buses enjoy tax discounts already, it should be less.

I recall the bus at the Meralco summit had a price tag of around 5m.