Asia’s First Electric Jeep to run in Bacolod Street

The famous jeepney’s electric-powered version will soon be weaving through the streets of Bacolod City to pick up passengers.

A multisectoral group is importing two electric jeepneys (E-jeeps) from China in an effort to introduce a low-carbon but sustainable transport system in the city.

Unlike the metallic jeeps that rule urban cities’ roads, the E-jeeps are made of fiberglass, and can seat only 12, excluding the driver. They will carry batteries that will be charged for eight hours daily to give them power to cover 80 to 100 km.

Once the E-jeep becomes viable, more of them will be shipped to Bacolod for commercial operations. Who knows, this may be replicated in other cities across the country.

But the E-jeep is just the icing on the cake. The real magic lies in the fact that the jeep will be running on electricity produced by a renewable energy power plant from the city’s market and household wastes.

Green Renewable Independent Power Producer Inc. (GRIPP) conceived of the 1-million euro (P61.88-million) project — the first in Southeast Asia — to further cement Negros Occidental’s move to go for clean energy five years ago.

GRIPP is the same network of civil society groups, business sector, local government units and green groups that led Negros’ campaign to foil the construction of coal plants in the province and stay clean.

The idea, eventually, is to have a fleet of 50 E-jeeps plying the secondary routes, or those streets not covered by the 3,000 to 3,500 locally-made jeepneys.

After getting 300,000 euros (P18.56 million) for the entire fleet from the Dutch institution Doen, GRIPP ordered two E-jeeps worth 6,000 euros (P371,280) each from Langqing Electric Vehicle Co. Ltd. in Guangzhou.(source: goodnewspilipinas)

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