The Department of Energy (DOE) has started soliciting bids for the supply and delivery of 3,000 units of energy- efficient electric tricycles (e-trike).
“We are inviting interested bidders to join the renewed bidding process for the benefit, not only of the electric transport industry, but of the ordinary Filipino citizens and tricycle drivers to enjoy an alternative mode of public transport,” Energy Undersecretary Donato Marcos said.
The Asian Development Bank-funded project, under the Market Transformation through the Introduction of Energy-Efficient Electric Vehicles Project, targets local government units nationwide with initial roll out of 3,000 units in the National Capital Region and the provinces in Region 4.
The e-trike project aims to promote sustainable transport, address the increasing carbon emissions in major cities, and reduce oil dependence of the local transport sector. The project also aims in transforming the public tricycle sector and jump-starting a new industry in the transport sector.
The DOE has scheduled a prebid conference on March 11, while closing the date for the bidding process and opening of bids is on April 14.
Lenie Lectura
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This looks like another announcement for the same garbage program they keep claiming they are going to do. But they push for dirt cheap trikes with ultra small motors and limited battery capacity and then say it is all the makers fault that the bikes are trash and break down. When and if Ph ever starts figuring that it needs more than 1 hp to power a taxi and that it has to cost several thousand USD to have the specs to perform the task, and drops the demand that links the bikes to an in PH factory, they have a prayer. If not, its another trash program designed to look good and never get done.