The Philippine Department of Energy (DOE) announced a contest to design an Electric Tricycle that could be used in Philippine roads. The contest is officially launched with a title of : “Bright Now! Do Right. Be Bright. Go E-trike!”

In partnership with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the DOE is promoting an National Electric Vehicle Strategy program for the Philippines that includes an electric tricycle among the modes of acceptable transportation, along with other electrically powered vehicles.
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Was on our way home one day on the odd occasion that our son was picked up from school. In between that 10 kilometer Jeepney ride between his school and our home I noticed that there were 9 gasoline stations already plying their trade.

10 years ago, if I’m remembering this correctly, there were only about 5 gasoline stations offering up fuel to the long distance travellers heading to some far off province.
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Philippine President, Benigno Aquino III (PNoy), announced that he is holding back plans to buy a dream car till his term ends in 2016. A year back he got into a lot of flak for having purchased a second hand 2007 Porsche for his personal use and in the end he had to sell it.

Personally I think it was really a bad political move to have bought the Porsche because public officials are recommended to live austere lives commensurate to their salary. Although the palace defended that the Porsche was bought with the President’s own money it was still a point of attack for the President’s detractors. In politics it has always been a good practice to never give people a reason to speak ill of you, whether real or perceived. Project an image cleaner than clean as the saying goes.
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I found this little piece of information about the all electric Nissan Leaf from Autoblog green quite fascinating.
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Great video found at youtube by ElectricFormula explaining how the basic electric system of an electric car works. Of course commercial electric cars made by manufacturers will be more complex and advanced in order to make the driving safer and more efficient, showing that would probably make the average consumer balk at the sheer complexity. This however does the job quite well.

Newgen Electric Technologies Inc was able to acquire a letter of endorsement from the Dept of Energy Secretary, Jose Rene Almendras, requesting for tax free importation from the Department of Finance of an Electric Bus that will serve as a proof of concept for those who want to invest in the said vehicle.
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