Exclusive - Goodbye, Pollution! You Can Now Ride Electric Trikes In Intramuros!

Tourists, students, and workers at the historical Intramuros will expect cleaner and less noisy streets as 50 electric tricycles were given to the area.

This is all thanks to the Php 550 million Mobility as a System project, a collaboration of Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization with Japanese IT service provider SoftBank Corporation and the government’s Board of Investments (BOI).

“With projects such as the MaaS, we hope to make the Philippines an EV (electric vehicle) manufacturing hub in Southeast Asia,” BOI executive director for industry development services Ma. Corazon Halili-Dichosa said.

“We hope that more local and foreign investments will come and make the country their production base, thus create around 100,000 in new jobs for Filipinos," she added.

Dichosa also said Intramuros was chosen for the project because they feel the historical destination must be rehabilitated into a more tourist-friendly lcation.

The project comes with 17 charging stations which can be found around Club Intramuros for the benefit of tourists and locals alike.

This will run until September 2018.