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Group eyes electric PhUV
By Ronnel Domingo
Inquirer
Last updated 07:40am (Mla time) 08/01/2007
The Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturers Association of the Philippines (MPVAP) announced it had teamed up with a Greenpeace-led group on an initiative to produce electric jeepneys.
Brought in from Guangzhou, China, two 12-seat e-jeepneys are being tested in Makati City and four others in Bacolod City.
The group, Green Renewable Independent Power Producer (GRIPP), plans to bring 44 more of the vehicles, which can run for 100 kilometers at up to 40kph with electricity from ordinary wall outlets. Charging takes eight to 10 hours.
MPVMAP vice president Pia Mirasol said Filipino parts makers had thrown their support behind the GRIPP efforts to make the e-jeepney project viable here and abroad.
The parts makers "provide GRIPP with technical assistance, such as product design, improvement and development, and the parts needed, to come up with a locally assembled version of the e-jeepney that would help make the project commercially viable and acceptable to the export market,” Mirasol said.
She added that MVPMAP would “fold in” the e-jeepney into its own Philippine Utility Vehicle (PhUV) Program so that its assembler, parts suppliers and buyers would get the benefits to be given the PhUV Program.
“We will call it the e-PhUV, and this would complement our other projects, such as the PhUV itself, public utility jeepney refleeting program and our One-Brand project,” Mirasol said.
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