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Retrofit Dirty 2-Stroke Vehicles in Philippines
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Summary
Promote the use of retrofitted two-stroke vehicles by Filipino taxi drivers. These vehicles significantly reduce emissions and fuel consumption and enable drivers to save money and increase income.
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Received $4,120 from 51 donations from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The 1.8 million two-stroke vehicles in the Philippines produce the pollution equivalent of 5 billion automobiles. 1.3 million taxi drivers & millions of working class Filipinos rely on them for income/transportation respectively. Our retrofit dramatically reduces emissions: carbon monoxide 76%, carbon dioxide 35%, & hydrocarbon 89%. In addition, fuel consumption is reduced by 35%, oil consumption by 50%. This increased fuel efficiency saves taxi drivers $500 per year, a 33% increase in income.
Activities
Envirofit currently has pilot projects in 3 historic/tourist cities: Vigan, Puerto Princesa, and Boracay. These projects aim to retrofit nearly 4000 vehicles. We are looking to replicate this project throughout the Philippines and to other countries.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $4,120
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $455,880
Total Funding Goal: $460,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Our 3 pilot projects will ANNUALLY remove 127,000 automobile equivalents of pollution and infuse $1.1 million dollars into the local economy. We expect incidence of respiratory disease to decline with an improvement in the drivers’ quality of life.
Project Message
After 6 months of using Envirofit’s kit I was able to save up enough money to use as matching funds for a housing grant. I rebuilt my home & my neighbor’s home, which provided housing for 6 families!
- Rolando Santiago, Envirofit field test participant
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 12, 2007.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 22, 2006.
Latest Update from the Field
Donations support retrofit of 1500 trikes in Philippines
By Jaime Whitlock - Program Coordinator, November 12, 2007 01:21 PM
Our existing endorsements include the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), the Philippine Department of Transport and Communications, the Department of Energy and Natural Resources, the Office of Public Transport Affairs and the Philippine League of Cities (made up of Mayors of all the major cities in the Philippines). We have also received endorsement from the Philippine Office of the President and the President herself (we have had two private audiences with the President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, to demonstrate our technology -- see pictures).
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