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    Here is a full-size mock up of an electric vehicle that we designed for our Industrial Design course thesis at the College of Saint Benilde in 1999.
    The car is intended to be a short distance taxi to replace tricycles.


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    Quote Originally Posted by donbuggy View Post
    Here is a full-size mock up of an electric vehicle that we designed for our Industrial Design course thesis at the College of Saint Benilde in 1999.
    The car is intended to be a short distance taxi to replace tricycles.

    Maybe you should try to inquire about the "MICRO-CAR" projects that was done back in the years 1991-1993 in the College of Eng in DLSU. There was two designs done, both were running prototypes. The projects was headed by Prof. Samuel Cruz, then the chairman for Manufacturing Engineering.

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    fyi

    sources:
    http://biz.balita.ph/html/article.php?story=20070418154747807
    http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/070418/16/47wla.html

    18 - Auto parts makers back comeback of electric cars

    Wednesday, April 18 2007 * 03:47 PM BST

    Business The local auto parts makers comprising the Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturers Association of the Philippines (MVPMAP) has signified its support for the Philippine Electric Vehicle (PEV) Program.

    The PEV Program aims to introduce a clean, sustainable and affordable urban mass transport service on a limited travel distance.

    According to Dir. Ferdi Raquelsantos, head of MVPMAP's own Philippine Utility Vehicle Program (PhUV), "the PEV is much like our own PhUV as it can transport both cargoes and passengers, though the PEV can operate only on a limited and confined range. It currently has a local content of around 50 percent thus we think that MVPMAP could help increase this to over 70 percent."

    An electric vehicle (EV) is a motor vehicle powered by an electric motor and an on-board source of electricity, normally a battery pack.

    Its advantages over a conventional internal combustion engine fueled by gasoline are that it consumes power only when in motion, emits no fumes and is very quiet even as it runs, thus there is no wasted fuel in traffic, no air pollution and no noise.

    EVs far outnumbered gasoline vehicles at the turn of the 20th century. However, with the continued improvements in the gasoline engines and the availability (then) of inexpensive gasoline, EVs became extinct in the 1920s.

    It is only now that it is slowly making a comeback as car manufacturers are coming up with the more expensive hybrid cars, powered by a computer-controlled engine that runs on both electricity and gasoline. Foremost among this is the Toyota Prius.

    Many Filipinos may be familiar with the EV in the form of the electric golf carts seen in golf courses and even the bump cars in the amusement centers of some malls.

    The downside of an EV is that in current models, a four-hour full charge on conventional 220 volts home outlet costs about P1,500 and can travel only 80 kms. This translates into about P18.75 per km. compared to less than P5.00 per km. for gasoline-fed cars.

    "This is another challenge that the PEV proponents will have to address – make the EV comparable to the gasoline-fed cars in terms of operating cost per km. before we could mass produce them", said Raquelsantos.

    Romeo Morave, president of Electromotion Motor Corporation and at the forefront of pushing for the PEV, said they are currently studying using a battery pack being developed in the USA that will increase the range of the EV to 200 to 300 miles (320 to 480 kms.).

    "We are also looking at cheaper alternative 'refueling' schemes such as photovoltaic arrays or solar cells. We are at the same time studying the regenerative braking system in an EV that turns the electric motor into a generator when the brakes are applied, thus recharging the batteries during deceleration," he said.

    "Currently, we have a PEV that sits 10 passengers, carries a payload of over 1,200 pounds and runs at a maximum of about 65 kms per hour", Morave said.

    The PEV is now being pilot tested by the Philippine Economic Zone Authority within its Cavite Export Processing Zone to transport some 90,000 workers daily within the zone.

    The vehicle's co-inventor, Roel Judilla, former dean of mechanical engineering at the Mapua Institute of Technology, said the current PEV costs around P600,000 but he said they are currently working to bring this down to about P300,000 to P400,000 with the application of more local parts from MVPMAP members. It has an AUV body supplied by Francisco Motors, one of MVPMAP's partners in its PhUV Program.

    "To avoid the exorbitant electricity costs, we are developing a model that would run using solar energy. But at the moment, we are marketing the PEV for specific short distances such as inside the ecozones, military camps, subdivisions, theme and leisure parks, golf courses and resorts", he said.

    MVPMAP is currently evaluating the possibility of including the PEV in its PhUV Program so that PEV manufacturers, parts makers and buyers can also avail of the package of incentives being finalized by the Board of Investments for the PhUV Program. This will hopefully make the PEV affordable to own and feasible to operate.(PNA)

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    Quote Originally Posted by ghosthunter View Post
    Maybe you should try to inquire about the "MICRO-CAR" projects that was done back in the years 1991-1993 in the College of Eng in DLSU. There was two designs done, both were running prototypes. The projects was headed by Prof. Samuel Cruz, then the chairman for Manufacturing Engineering.
    alin yun 3-wheeled car na di kadena na kulay pula. what a useless prototype

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    Are golf cars also electric powered too? Our neighbor has one, and I don'tsee any spewing fumes, but I do get to hear the motor's wrrrrring sound which doesn't jive with a gas-fed engine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldblue View Post
    alin yun 3-wheeled car na di kadena na kulay pula. what a useless prototype
    ouch! ... well, it was a running prototype built by students to a written specification as a two seat city car using a motorcycle engine for power.

    A proposed revised version of MicroCar-2 would have an electric motor and batteries but it was never built.
    Last edited by ghosthunter; June 5th, 2007 at 09:29 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by straker View Post
    Are golf cars also electric powered too? Our neighbor has one, and I don'tsee any spewing fumes, but I do get to hear the motor's wrrrrring sound which doesn't jive with a gas-fed engine.
    There are electric and gasoline fed golf carts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by donbuggy View Post
    Here is a full-size mock up of an electric vehicle that we designed for our Industrial Design course thesis at the College of Saint Benilde in 1999.
    The car is intended to be a short distance taxi to replace tricycles.

    Uy... inabutan ko ito sa CSB ha... :clap:

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