BACOOR City in Cavite has taken the lead in adapting to cleaner, environment-friendly transport as it has approved an ordinance providing incentives for the wider use of electric tricycles (e-trikes), which allows the grant of free franchises to tricycle operators.
The wider adoption of e-transport was done through an ordinance that allowed Bacoor City to grant no franchise fees to operators if their tricycles are either electric or driven by any alternative fuel source. Registration will also be made easier and faster to make it more convenient for operators to shift to e-trikes.
This is according to the Electric Vehicle Association of the Philippines (Evap), whose member e-trike manufacturer KEA Industrial is working with the Bacoor City government. Through the partnership, the city has launched a fleet of e-trikes complete with offsite public-charging stations, making it the very first local government unit (LGU) in the country to do so.
Evap President Rommel Juan hopes that more LGUs will follow the pioneering program of Bacoor and be as progressive as the city.
“LGUs nationwide can replicate this operating system in Bacoor City to make their communities greener and, at the same time, modernize their tricycle-transport infrastructure, as well,” Juan said in a statement.
source: Business Mirror
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