The gas powered tricycle is found in every city, and town in the Philippines. It's also one of the largest air polluters. But now the electric tricycle is slowly going to replace them as more cities adopt their use.In order to clean up the air and noise pollution, more and more cities are looking at the electric Tricycles as a solution.
I for one, am so glad they are doing it. The noxious fumes from these vehicles is cloying! They pollute our collective atmosphere and air we breathe.
It's time for Filipinos to jump on this bandwagon, not just gas tricycle drivers, but delivery services that have short routes, and motorcyclists in general should switch to electric motorbikes. Fossil fuel emmission is contributing to the ill health our planet is experiencing, and so much more in our cities.
In 2008, a news article claimed that 5000 or more people in the Metro Manila area alone die from diseases associated with noxious air pollution!
Links to articles about this health hazard!
By TJ Burgonio Inquirer
Links to Electric Tricycle Projects in the Philippines:
Make way for Eco-friendly ETricycles Journal Online 2009-04-26
Make way for Eco-friendly ETricycles Journal Online 2009-04-26
Makati eyes electric tricycles Inquirer 2009-04-22
Davao City Honing up on E-tricycle Production
