"e-Jeepney" - The electric powered jeepney

[romski123]

for Inquiries pls call John Marasigan (he's the guy on the right wearing white) cel 09228395770.

[roberto_minosa]

I'm just curious, is there a new category of vehicles [electric] on LTO regulations? I noticed that the license plates are painted differently.

[ghosthunter]

I'm just curious, is there a new category of vehicles [electric] on LTO regulations? I noticed that the license plates are painted differently.

I think pure-electric vehicles are issued orange license plates by the LTO.

Hybrids are still issued regular license plates by the LTO.

[kitsons]

Should it be the same (charging and range) at the ones being used in Makati?

[SIZE=3]Am in the blind on the specs/performance of the technology used so cannot speculate on anything to base as comment.
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[ehnriko]

One thing I noticed with most Pinoy built or designed cars/ whether electric or not...

One piece lahat ang front section.

Doesn't anybody think of the maintenance and repair factors?... doesnt anybody think of bumper lines? Bumper sections, Safety margin? crumple zones? or sections.

In the event of a collision under 30kph, the bumper should absorb the impact and the damage and not transfer it to the whole body of the vehicle.

I dont think the makers of these electric vehicles and even kit cars have that in mind. You can simulate a front end collision in your head. Just a little imagination would help.

All the clues to build this safety element are already given with existing first world car designs. Mahirap bang gawin ito? I believe it's much cheaper and easier. To make the whole front section as one piece is actually a practice done by fiberglass fabricators who are very much accustomed to building carnival maskot or theme park rides.

Trabahong tamad ito IMHO.

The Bumper components should be separate from the body. - no exceptions - the reason is basically - safety and access for servicing in case of maintenance and repairs or in case of accidents.

Common sense also suggests that a minor fender bender should not affect the alignment of the whole body... or even crack your windshield...

The bumpers should be one separate module and not part of the bigger module.

Kung tao ko yung gagawa ng ganyang style - masasabon ko.

No offense meant.... I am merely speaking my mind out and addressing this in general.

Matagal na kasi itong observation ko and it will be selfish not to share it.

From the Ford Fieras in the past to the AUV's... to the modern E-Jeepney... to even the Aguila and the Beerhouse Stun gun.... lahat - walang bumper module.

Isang banga lang kayo, laking damage na sa repair.

I apologize if I am wrong... but I believe I have a very accurate observation.

Pasingtabi Romski ha... :-)

Just consider my critique as constructive. so the next one you will be building will adhere to international SAE pratice or something at least close to it.

[ghosthunter]

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[kitsons]

One thing I noticed with most Pinoy built or designed cars/ whether electric or not...

One piece lahat ang front section.

Doesn't anybody think of the maintenance and repair factors?... doesnt anybody think of bumper lines? Bumper sections, Safety margin? crumple zones? or sections.

In the event of a collision under 30kph, the bumper should absorb the impact and the damage and not transfer it to the whole body of the vehicle.

I dont think the makers of these electric vehicles and even kit cars have that in mind. You can simulate a front end collision in your head. Just a little imagination would help.

All the clues to build this safety element are already given with existing first world car designs. Mahirap bang gawin ito? I believe it's much cheaper and easier. To make the whole front section as one piece is actually a practice done by fiberglass fabricators who are very much accustomed to building carnival maskot or theme park rides.

Trabahong tamad ito IMHO.

The Bumper components should be separate from the body. - no exceptions - the reason is basically - safety and access for servicing in case of maintenance and repairs or in case of accidents.

Common sense also suggests that a minor fender bender should not affect the alignment of the whole body... or even crack your windshield...

The bumpers should be one separate module and not part of the bigger module.

Kung tao ko yung gagawa ng ganyang style - masasabon ko.

No offense meant.... I am merely speaking my mind out and addressing this in general.

Matagal na kasi itong observation ko and it will be selfish not to share it.

From the Ford Fieras in the past to the AUV's... to the modern E-Jeepney... to even the Aguila and the Beerhouse Stun gun.... lahat - walang bumper module.

Isang banga lang kayo, laking damage na sa repair.

I apologize if I am wrong... but I believe I have a very accurate observation.

Pasingtabi Romski ha... :-)

Just consider my critique as constructive. so the next one you will be building will adhere to international SAE pratice or something at least close to it.

Agree. Evern if fiber glass used, modular body parts would in fact make things easier to produce.

Was studying the inside of the engine compartment of the new honda city the other day and noticed that even the wind vent grills is separate from the top cover of the area above the radiator and air-con thingamajig as with the standard separate bumper and fenders sections.

Liked the treatment of the boot cover that had gaps all around that makes it more safe from having scratches on the edges caused by being too near the fender sections if anything is caught when the boot is being closed.

The weather strip to protect the boot from water served as the walls of the duct around the boot.

Just scares me though that the body still is quite thin and most of the body parts are made out of plastic.

[romski123]

Bicolanos now enjoy e-jeepney rides


The Manila Times.net
Thursday, 10 December 2009
Rhaydz B. Barcia
Note: As debates heat up at the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark, iCSC's eJeepneys are breaking new ground, this time in Legazpi City in Bicol, where new units will be deployed. eJeepneys are now roving around the city proper, at the famed Embarcadero de Legazpi complex. Find out how the local and provincial government are teaming up with leading private sector groups to further push the initiative.

LEGAZPI CITY: As President Gloria Arroyo is set to implore among the highly developed countries to pour in incremental funds to mitigate the adverse impact of climatic change because of global warming, in this city a first nonpollutant tourist cars are now orbiting around the main thoroughfares to lessen the greenhouse gas emission here.
The electric jeepney, or e-jeepney pro-environment tourist vehicles have been introduced by Bicolano business tycoon Elizaldy Co, chief executive officer of the Sunwest Group of Companies, which provide free ride among the visiting tourists specifically to the public across the city proper here.
From the multibillion mega structure complex of Embarcadero de Legazpi, the e-jeepney is roving around
going to the city proper which was a big hit among the riding public from all walks of life.
Julius Pago, 32, e-jeepney driver, explained to The Manila Times that before the day-after-day operation, they need to charge the standard auto battery for six to eight hours to provide sufficient energy supply.
The eight-hour fully charged battery is enough for at least 13-hour drive around the city proper or a trip as far as Naga City provided that a back up battery should be readied to go back in this city unhampered according to Pago.
“This is fun to drive because the e-jeepney is soundless and not emitting stinking smokes compared to gasoline driven vehicles which produce green house gas emissions that blighted the environment and the ozone layer,” Pago told The Times.
Currently there are two units of e-jeepneys roaming around from Embarcadero de Legazpi to the city proper but another six more units of nonpollutant tourist service cars will be arriving soon to cater free ride in this city among the visiting tourists and to the public
“As we go on with business venture modernization for countryside development, we must also protect our environment for our children’s children future. Our very own Gov. Joey Salceda is very much abreast and strong advocate for the protection of environment therefore all stakeholders should work together because protection of mother earth is everybody’s business,” Co told The Times.
Salceda is set to attend the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in Denmark next week told The Times that he will push before the world leaders the country’s position adaptation and mitigating measures over the pressing global warming phenomenon.
Salceda, a noted climate change activist and sole local chief executive in the country who had been selected by the Copenhagen organizing body to represent the country and share inputs at the scheduled International Conference on Climate Change Adaptation in Denmark said that he will push the creation of timely adaptation mechanisms for developing nations as this is very crucial following the higher vulnerability of the Philippines to the impact of climatic change.
RHAYDZ B. BARCIA

[romski123]

Ride your talk, adopt an e-Jeepney


By Moje Ramos-Aquino, FPM
From her column "Learning and Innovation", The Manila Times, December 5, 2009
IT is only the first week of December and already prices have gone up to the stratosphere. We bought LPG last week at P595 and my brother bought LPG yesterday at P615. We go to Divisoria once a month to buy materials and supplies for our training workshops and we notice that prices go up every time. We have a harder time convincing our suki to give us some preferential discounts since we buy wholesale. It is the same stock of supply that they bought at much lower prices. By the way, they now give real looking receipts, but they do not write on the copy left with them. For tax purposes, one confides. Hmmmmm.
The good news is that you may now ride a green jeepney! My good friend Yvonne Palomar Castro e-mailed me this:
“Everyone loves green nowadays and we all love to believe that we can ‘walk the talk’ when it comes to healing mother earth. A group called Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities [ICSC] offer us a venue not just to ‘walk the talk’ but ride it as well. For Makati residents and office workers, the electric jeepney is becoming a refreshing sight daily, offering free rides along the busy thoroughfares of Makati’s Central Business District.
“What is unique aside from the free ride is the fact that it is smoke free and noise free making it possible to talk with your seatmate and not have to scream your lungs out. The proponent of the project, ICSC, with the support of the Makati City government, is hoping to roll out more units soon in other areas. The free ride will stay as long as there will be companies who believe that public service and protecting the environment can go hand in hand. If you are the owner, CEO, marketing or CSR [corporate social responsibility] head of a company you may participate in the Adopt an e-Jeepney project. At a lower cost than paying a rowing billboard, which does not render any public service and is actually bad for the environment by adding carbon dioxide and nitrous oxides onto our air, a company may instead adopt a unit/or units and place their ads by dressing up the “adopted” e-jeep with their company’s logo and campaigns. There are also available spaces inside the e-Jeepneys to allow the companies to distribute flyers and other marketing materials. True to being green and sustainable, e-Jeepneys would rather that sponsor use 100 percent recycled paper from post consumer waste and are chlorine free and printed on soya ink for their printed materials.
|“What could be more ‘greener’ than actually supporting a real green transport system? The Climate Friendly Cities project of ICSC won in the Discovery Channel’s Ecopolis show as the ‘Best Transport System to Save the World from Pollution.’ Wow, if a world-renowned scientist and member of Nobel Peace Prize Dr. Daniel Kammen of UC Berkley believe in our locally grown e-Jeepney isn’t it time for us to support it as well? By supporting the project, companies will make it possible for ICSC to bring and replicate this system to more cities the soonest time possible.
“As world government leaders are scrambling to unite next week at Copenhagen to have a binding agreement on cut on carbon emission, CSR practitioners in this country should take a thorough look at the Adopt an e-Jeepney which with the entire Climate Friendly Cities can actually reduce carbon emission by as much as 80 percent!
‘Ride your Talk,’ adopt an e-jeepney now by visiting their website at www.ejeep.org or by e-mailing
ejeeptransport*gmail.com
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For Yvonne’s small and thriving enterprise: For really cool printed materials on 100 percent recycled paper that are chlorine free you may visit www.ecothings.net or e-mail
ycpublications*gmail.com
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On giving, Dr. Stephen Post and Jil Neimark have proof that it is better to give than to receive. “Simply contemplating generosity boosts your immunity. When Harvard students watched a film about Mother Teresa tending to orphans, the number of protective antibodies in their saliva surged; when the students were asked to focus on times when they’d been loved by or loving to others, their antibody levels stayed elevated for an hour. In another study, the brain’s pleasure centers lit up when people made check marks next to a list of organizations to which they wanted to donate.”

[ehnriko]

Those Green Politicans attending the Copenhagen conference - if they are from the third world - should demand for CLIMATE INJUSTICE.

If we comply to carbon footprint reduction in our country by over 50% - we will still be suffering from the initial impact of these first World Carbon Emissions... compared to us which is probably just a fly's fart in a typhoon. (borrowing anothers persons words).

Tagalugin ko na para mas may impact.

Yung representante ng Pinas na aatend ng Copenhagen meet - dapat ikasa o isalang niya sa usapan yung danyos de perwisyo na dinadanas ng bansa natin sa halos taon taon - dulot ng kapabayaan at iresponsibilidad ng mga mayayamang bansa ukol sa pagsasawalang bahala ng kanilang pag konsumo ng Fossil fuel at pagsawalang bahala sa kalikasan sa pag papalabas ng mga greenhouse gases na nagiging pangunahing sanhi ng pangdaigdigang pagbabago ng temperatura - na nagiging sanhi ng mga kakaibang weather patterns - damay na ang pagkatunaw ng yelo sa north pole.

Kung merong unang makakaranas nito - ay tayo dahil tayo ay nasa bukana ng Pacific Ocean - Sinasalo natin ang lahat ng mga namumuong bagyo.

Ang representante ng bansa natin ay dapat maging maingay at matapang sa paghingi ng hustisya laban sa mga pabayang mayayamang bansa.

Kung sila ay mamamasyal lang at mag papa petik petik doon - sasang ayunan ang hatak ng kuyog sa copenhagen - malamang - wala tayong makukuhang hustisya.

Kung maganda ang panahon ngayon - malamang malimutan na ang Ondoy - hindi ito ang huli... marami pang darating na katulad nito. Ano ba ang quick fix? Bukod sa ginagawang kampanya sa loob ng ating bayan... ang dapat pagtuunan ng pansin ng gobyerno natin - yung laban sa labas ng bansa.

Pumayag na nga tayong maging alipin ng mundo... pati ba naman sa ganitong perwisyo sa kalikasan - hahayaan pa natin pangunahan tayo ng mga bansang may mas malalaking interest na di naman talaga naapektuhan ng pagbabago ng klima?

Bakit sa Copenhagen? - Kasi - laging maganda panahon dun - delikado mag meeting dito sa atin - at baka matikman pa nila yung dagok ng kalikasan na kagagawan din nila... ito ang multo na ginawa nila.

Kaya tuloy lang ang laban Ka Romski123 - supportahan taka dong sa advocacy mo.

By the way.... after 1 or 2 years of using up your batteries for your e-jeeps - you will be bound to change them with new ones. Is Motolite coming up with better and Lighter Batteries by that time?