Do you know anybody involved in the Mapua electric car/jeepney project? How are they doing?

Question

It's great to see Manila people now starting to manufacture hundreds of electric cars to fight global warming/climate change.

However, I'm guessing that the good folks in Manila will find the $$$$$ cost of batteries to be un-affordable, and simply abandon EV's, as they have here, even in BC, Canada, where (in my estimation) 80% of electric cars are idle and unlicensed (with less than 40 registered in the whole province.)

Therefore, if and when they discover that can't afford the cost of replacement batteries, perhaps the folks in the Philippines will come back to this forum and look at my Vancouver-made zero-cost battery electric pickup truck video URL/link, of the Global TV newscast, which I just uploaded to Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEq-GbVcFTA

I'm offering the methods of using discarded batteries to power EV's to people in the Philippines who have EV's.

Rob Matthies

Vancouver, Canada

Answer 1

That's cool.  I'm rather curious how you're reviving the old batteries myself, and particularly how they could be more powerful than when new.

On a related note, ZAP recently surpassed 500 models sold of their Xebra EV.