"e-Jeepney" - The electric powered jeepney

[romski123]

I still don't see any numbers about how many actual e-jeepneys that were sold.

Is someone avoiding ??

kaw naman gh, ina-accuse nga ako na pinagyayabang ang mga benta namin e. Bakit ko pa sasagutin yang si uls.

If you back track on this thread you will find our past sales narin. yun na lang muna.

ang buod lang naman nang argument is nobody takes uls seriously. tapos ngayon nalaman natin na nagbebenta pala ng 2nd hand Subic imports yan.

kaya pala kontra sa local manufacturing.

[romski123]

I still don't see any numbers about how many actual e-jeepneys that were sold.

Is someone avoiding ??

it's daddy defending his baby

[ghosthunter]

[SIZE="4"]E-Jeepney classified as a Slow Moving Vehicle
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August 1st, 2008 | Views: 727


LTFRB classified the E-Jeepney as a slow moving vehicle (SMV), therefore being allowed only to operate in villages and subdivisions. They are also prevented from traveling in highways and expressways.

According to Myrna C. Cabrera, LTO registration section officer-in-charge, an SMV is the same as a regular vehicle but can travel only at a speed between 35-100kph. Their registration stickers will be orange colored and are similar to that being given to electric-powered motorcycles and bicycles.

In this blog I have expressed my worry on the use of the electric jeepney in public roads because they could prove to be an obstruction to regular cars who need to go faster in order to reach their proper operating efficiencies. Which in turn could result in much greater fuel wastage.

Good too that they are limited only to areas with low traffic, because if they are placed in the same class as bicycles then they would have merited their own lane if allowed to operate in main thoroughfares.

http://www.alternat1ve.com/biofuel/2...oving-vehicle/

[ghosthunter]

[SIZE="3"]Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturers Association of the Philippines to mass produce locally designed E-Jeepney
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November 18th, 2008 | Views: 618

Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturers Association of the Philippines director Ferdinand Raquelsantos said that they are planning to mass produce a locally designed and developed E-Jeepney in the coming months.

The E-Jeepney has been developed by them in conjunction with Green Renewable Independent Power Producer (GRIPP). This locally developed E-Jeepney is currently being pilot tested in the Legaspi Village route in Makati City.

The E-Jeepney, having been classified as a slow moving vehicle by the Land Transportation office, can only legally ply villages and subdivisions and are barred from entering highways and expressways.

Although classified as clean transportation because of it not using fossil fuels, detractors to the electric vehicle have tossed accusations of it not being practical and environmentally friendly because of it use of chemical batteries. Which are harmful to the environment when disposed incorrectly and because battery performance degrades during use limiting its operational life.

The jeepney has long been a fixture of Filipino life and is a testament to his industriousness. The jeepney evolved from leftover WWII Jeep’s left behind by the Americans and lovingly transformed to passenger vehicles. Now they are mostly built in local machine shops, still with used engine parts and aside from slight expansion of the chassis to accommodate more passengers and switching over to surplus diesel engines for better fuel economy there is little difference with the modern jeepney from its world war II fore bearer.

http://www.alternat1ve.com/biofuel/2...ned-e-jeepney/

[romski123]

http://www.alternat1ve.com/biofuel/2...ned-e-jeepney/

thanks for getting back to topic

[niky]

If they're to be limited to subdivisions, then you can make them with even lighter construction?

So there are no plans of the government to allow them to use bicycle lanes? Shame. The average traffic speed in the city centers never rises above 35-40 km/h... which these vehicles are still efficient at. I think the worry over them blocking regular cars on regular roads is misplaced... since the jeepneys that zoom in and out, zip between lanes, and screech to a stop in front of regular cars already do that. Having E-jeeps, instead, which are too slow to pull out in front of regular cars and fardle around with traffic would be infinitely better...

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Errh... raises another question... do inner city roads classify as highway?

[ghosthunter]

If they're to be limited to subdivisions, then you can make them with even lighter construction?

If they make them any lighter, the ejeeps would soon be using cardboard and bamboo as construction material.

So there are no plans of the government to allow them to use bicycle lanes? Shame. The average traffic speed in the city centers never rises above 35-40 km/h... which these vehicles are still efficient at. I think the worry over them blocking regular cars on regular roads is misplaced... since the jeepneys that zoom in and out, zip between lanes, and screech to a stop in front of regular cars already do that. Having E-jeeps, instead, which are too slow to pull out in front of regular cars and fardle around with traffic would be infinitely better...

If the ejeeps can achieve higher sustained road speeds, I think they will qualify for the regular utility vehicle plate color ... not the limiting orange license plate they are currently issued with.


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[romski123]

were working on new electric vehicle registration rules.

it took us 2 years just to get it registered. We started from zero.

[jpdm]

Just saw in the news (24 oras GMA 7) Instituto Cervantes is using the e-jeepneys for their newest project!


Hooray to the e-jeepneys!

[romski123]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwlksXkDf70"]YouTube- eJeepney-Berso sa Metro on 24 oras.mpg[/ame]


check it out!

[romski123]

http://www.ejeepney.org/content/jeep...board-ejeepney

JEEPNEY POETRY: LITERATURE ABOARD THE EJEEPNEY


URBAN WORD TRIP
Mika Rafaela A. Barrios and Angelo Nonato P. Cabrera
The Varsitarian, Vol. LXXXI, No. 14 • June 18, 2010
It's poetry on wheels.
In an unconventional mix of love for literature and the environment, Instituto Cervantes, together with Renato Redentor Constantino and the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC), launched the “Berso sa Metro: Jeepney Poetry Tour (La Poesia Viaja en Jeepney)” last April 17, a poetry-reading event which made pit stops at various bookstores in the metro via electric jeepneys, an innovation of the iconic Filipino transport vehicle ran by electricity and does not require gasoline to fuel its engine.
A Different Bookstore in Bonifacio High Street, Powerbooks at Greenbelt 3 in Makati and Mag:Net Café in Katipunan Avenue, Quezon City were the three stops of the route which served as venues for the readings.
With Thomasian poets Vim Nadera and Michael Coroza on board, the e-jeepneys sported verses of famous Spanish poets with its corresponding Filipino translations on the exteriors of the environment-friendly vehicle.
“We wanted to promote poetry and reading on something environment-friendly, hence the use of the e-jeepneys,” said Jose Rodriguez, director of Instituto Cervantes.
Rodriguez also explained that the primary goal of the institute was to bring back the culture of reading books and appreciating literature among Filipino people, especially to the young generation whose interest have significantly dwindled. Likewise, the campaign also aims to strengthen Spanish-Filipino ties.
Along with Nadera and Coroza, the tour also featured poets such as Ramon Sunico, Marra Lanot, Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta, Pete Lacaba, Joel Toledo and Jose Luis Gomez Tore, a famous Spanish poet who flew into the country to grace the event. Tore read his pieces in his native language which a Filipino poet later translated.
At Serendra, poets recited their pieces concerning “city life”. Lacaba’s “Sa Kanto ng Langit at Laong-Laan” delved into the sinister elements of the streets as he described his journey along Laong-Laan while riding a jeepney. “EDSA” by Marra Lanot is a nostalgic take on the once peaceful avenue as the poem ends with “Nasaan ang bahaghari ng dating Highway 54?” Ture shared his plight as a foreigner in a strange land in his poem, “Extranjero en Delhi (Foreigner in Delhi)”.
At Powerbooks, the theme shifted to “Memories, Dreams and Nightmares”. In “Serenade on a Pitch-Black Night”, Sunico describes the confusion in darkness once a worker comes home at night to a black-out. Lacaba’s “Bangungot” narrates his eerie descent into his own nightmare and a brush with Death himself.
The last stop at the Mag:net Café, a known hub for lyricists and poetry reading, gave the poets freedom to choose and read their own selection of works. Lanot first recited “Riding the Full,” a poem about the effect of the full moon on women’s monthly cycles and then “Como Quisiera,” her poem in Spanish that was about an unreachable dream.
After each reading session on three stops of the e-jeepney route, Coroza and Nadera would perform a balagtasan, a Filipino poetic debate which the two poets spiced with much humor and wit. The two lyricists jousted about living in the province and in the city on the first stop in relation with the city-life theme. At the next stop, Coroza disputed the stance of ‘being awake’ over Nadera’s ‘asleep,’ with which he literally “dozed-off” as Coroza justified his stance with consciousness fully alive. And on the last stop, the two poets debated if writers were good lovers or not. The Coroza defended that poets were great romantic lovers with their mast ery in words to capture their beloved’s heart, while Nadera stood for the bitter, opposite end.
“So far, Instituto Cervantes has been successful with their advocacy. They have been recognized for their efforts in their reading campaigns,” said Nadera. The institute received an award from the Public Relations Society of the Philippines (PRSP) for their first “Berso sa Metro” poetry and reading campaign which featured poems recited in the Light Rail Transits 1 and 2 and the Metro Rail Transit.
“As Filipinos, we should be the ones initiating campaigns like this instead of foreigners doing it for us,” added Nadera.
“Berso sa Metro” is a project in line with Instituto Cervantes’ “Dia del Libro” (International Book Day) which they had celebrated last April 24. #
From: http://www.varsitarian.net/literary/...rban_word_trip

[jpdm]

Electric jeepney brings Binay to inauguration

By Jose Rodel Clapano
(The Philippine Star)
Updated July 01, 2010 12:00 AM


MANILA, [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]Philippines[/COLOR][/COLOR] - Vice President Jejomar Binay arrived for his inauguration at the Quirino Grandstand in Luneta in a battery-operated electric jeepney (BE-Jeepney).

At a press conference in the house of his son Makati Mayor Junjun Binay after the inauguration, the elder Binay said riding in a BE-jeepney with members of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP), students, nurses, medical sector representatives and senior citizens was his way of expressing his commitment to help solve the environmental problems facing the country.

“I used a BE-Jeepney because it is a big opportunity to show our concern with environmental problems facing our country. It is not needed in the provinces because pollution is lesser there.



We need to[SIZE=3] encourage the use of BE-Jeepney in Metro Manila,[/SIZE]” he said.


http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx...bCategoryId=63

[niky]

Actually, they called it the "B-Jeep". Sounds more catchy, methinks.

[romski123]

Vice President Jejomar Binay rides the "B-Jeep" to inauguration
By Kris Pronto, July 1, 2010

from http://www.ejeepney.org/content/hist...e-vp-inaugural

History made! eJeepneys drive VP to inaugural


Vice President Jejomar Binay rides the "B-Jeep" to inauguration
By Kris Pronto, July 1, 2010
Well, our happy eJeepney fleet has again levelled up. This time, as the preferred vehicle chosen by no less than Philippine Vice President Jejomar C. Binay for the inauguration rites he shared with new Philippine President Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III on June 30, 2010.
Below are clips of news stories about the historic ride. It's been great. (For those who came across news that the VP and the B-Jeep were late, we've also posted excerpts from the blog of the inauguration's spokesperson Manolo Quezon, who said the VP was on time, on cue, and displayed courtesy by waiting for President Aquino, who had arrived with the outgoing Gloria Arroyo, and who had alighted from his vehicle 20 minutes earlier than scheduled by the organizers, to finish his review of the troops at the Quirino Grandstand.)
Never has a statement about the need for sustainable transport been made so festively and eloquently. The Vice President could have selected to go in the usual gas-guzzling SUV or limousine, by tradition. Surely the luxury vehicle would have fitted the usual clutch of bodyguards and the VIP.
But it was history that was more important, one which the simple Philippine-made eJeepney helped to write, a vehicle that the Vice President, when he was still the mayor of Makati City not so long ago, helped champion.
So in he rode, in what has since been called the "B-Jeep", to honor the man elected by millions to the vice presidency, along with the Filipino of the moment, Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III. Once again, the celebrated artist Toym Abdulmari Imao crafted the new design, with the humble bee as the center of his theme an insect symbolizing the biodiversity risks confronting the planet as we move seemingly inexorably towards potentially irreversible climate change. The "B-Jeep" was manufactured in the vehicle plant of Philippine Utility Vehicle, Inc. (PhUV), the proud and leading builder of most eJeepneys plying the roads today, including eTrikes and eQuads.
No wang-wang or sirens blaring, however, for the VP. No smoke, no noise, in an electric public utility vehicle duly registered and with proper orange plates, unlike so many electric vehicles today. The "B-Jeep" is a product of Filipino ingenuity, and it proudly carried during the great moment Binay's selected "security" contingent for the day - boy scouts, senior citizens and students - constituencies which placed him to where he is today based on the promise of a better, more just and sustainable life. The lead "B-Jeep" was escorted along the way by, you guessed it, another "B-Jeep", led by iCSC operations chief Jerome Palomar.
As the windshield message on the "B-Jeep" proclaims, the journey of Vice President Binay is now nationwide and no longer confined to Metro Manila. "Biyaheng Pilipinas" is what it says, and it may as well be the message for the humble and happy eJeepney, whose time has certainly come.
However small the footnote is, history has been made. #
Editor's note: here are excerpts from some news items the day after the inauguration. We've had to shorten them of course, but if you're interested to read the entire piece of the selected stories, we've pasted the URL right below each of the news items. Happy reading!
Photos: http://www.ejeepney.org/category/ima...ion-and-b-jeep

[ghosthunter]

Vice President Jejomar Binay rides the "B-Jeep" to inauguration
By Kris Pronto, July 1, 2010

from http://www.ejeepney.org/content/hist...e-vp-inaugural

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Note: This response is against Binay, not the e-jeepney.


VP-Binay by arriving in an e-jeepney at the inauguration and relabeling the e-jeepney as the "B-Jeep" is simply a publicity stunt for his current term as Vice President and in an attempt to make his name for his potential future run for President.

Binay didn't even ride his "beloved" e-jeepney all the way from Makati to Quirino Grandstand. He rode his big fuel guzzling american luxury SUV from Makati to Manila and then transferred to the e-jeepney for the last few hundred meters as was witnessed when he transferred between vehicles.

Being "green" is not only what you "say" but also what you "do". If you don't live a "green" lifestyle to match what you "say", you are just a hypocrite.

And since we all know that Binay is such a political "trapo", there is nothing new under the sun, at least in regards to Binay.

[romski123]

Galing nga ni Mayor Binay e.

gh talaga o, una si hagedorn ngayon si Binay naman ang binabanatan. Ingat ka maraming nakakabasa.

[ghosthunter]

Galing nga ni Mayor Binay e.

gh talaga o, una si hagedorn ngayon si Binay naman ang binabanatan. Ingat ka maraming nakakabasa.

*romski123,

So what are you pointing towards? We should hide the truth??

[conzky]

Note: This response is against Binay, not the e-jeepney.


VP-Binay by arriving in an e-jeepney at the inauguration and relabeling the e-jeepney as the "B-Jeep" is simply a publicity stunt for his current term as Vice President and in an attempt to make his name for his potential future run for President.

Binay didn't even ride his "beloved" e-jeepney all the way from Makati to Quirino Grandstand. He rode his big fuel guzzling american luxury SUV from Makati to Manila and then transferred to the e-jeepney for the last few hundred meters as was witnessed when he transferred between vehicles.

Being "green" is not only what you "say" but also what you "do". If you don't live a "green" lifestyle to match what you "say", you are just a hypocrite.

And since we all know that Binay is such a political "trapo", there is nothing new under the sun, at least in regards to Binay.

+1000. In other words, "PAKITANG TAO" laang yun!!!

[ghosthunter]

Ayan! Ang idol ninyo si Binay:

VP Convoy Violates Traffic Rules
http://tsikot.yehey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72007

[andywesteast]

Galing nga ni Mayor Binay e.

gh talaga o, una si hagedorn ngayon si Binay naman ang binabanatan. Ingat ka maraming nakakabasa.

Inggat mo nek-nek mo. What kind of pathetic empty threat is that.

Binay is a piece of BROWN TRAPO SH*T, plain and simple.

Stop kissing their Smelly Butts, romski.