MANILA, Philippines – Cagayan State University (CSU) has made its locally developed electric vehicle prototypes available to commercial investors, representing a practical step forward in expanding domestic manufacturing and clean transportation across the Philippines. At the Sustainability Expo 2026 in Manila, the university’s ElectroMobility Research and Development Center (EMRDC) showcased … [continued]
An e-auto factory in Bengaluru, India. Credit: Abhishek Chinnappa/Climate Visuals Countdown, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
What India’s state-level EV strategies can teach policymakers worldwide. Authored by Swapnil Fulari, clean transportation specialist, NRDC India; Amitosh Gautam, state-based representative (Gujarat & Maharashtra), NRDC India; and Harshit Gupta, state-based representative (Uttar Pradesh). Article from NRDC. India’s electric vehicle (EV) market has gained significant momentum. According to the Indian … [continued]
Philippines’ express delivery service JRS Express and mobility startup Voltai finalized a pilot partnership to integrate electric motorcycles and battery-swapping technology into commercial logistics operations in Metro Manila last March. As of July 16, the partnership has begun running a real-world testing ground for two-wheel electric vehicles (EVs) operating within … [continued]
India’s latest push toward electric vehicles is being driven by more than industrial policy or climate commitments. It is also a response to one of the country’s most persistent public‑health crises: air pollution. The Delhi government has approved a sweeping new electric‑vehicle policy that offers owners of older vehicles more … [continued]
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is mounting a coordinated push to scale up homegrown electric vehicle technologies as volatile global fuel prices continue to pressure the local transport sector. Driven by its central research arm, the Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research and Development, the … [continued]
I’ve long said that cities should do much more to electrify transport. They have resources and power, and they also typically suffer from air pollution issues that drastically hurt their residents. Delhi, India, is one of the most polluted cities in the world. It has tried for years to stimulate … [continued]
Kenya’s electric motorcycle sector is starting to blossom now as several firms move from initial commercialisation of their products to full commercialisation, and scaling up their operations. In the beginning, several startups moved to validate their models using electric motorcycles built with off-the-shelf battery cells, BMS, controllers, motors, and other … [continued]
Southeast Asia Expansion Accelerates on Two Wheels Less than a month after opening reservations for the same models in Indonesia, VinFast has introduced its battery-swapping electric motorcycle lineup to the Philippines, signaling a faster-than-expected rollout of the Vietnamese company’s two-wheeler strategy across Southeast Asia. The move adds three electric motorcycles … [continued]
The line up of VinFast vehicles now includes the tiny VF3 city car and the ultra-luxurious Hac Long 900 built on the VF9 platform. (Photo for Cleantechnica by author)
There is a distinct difference between watching an industrial birth from the clean gallery of a press junket and standing on the factory floor while the machinery runs at scale. Five years ago, I wrote a piece for CleanTechnica outlining six reasons why VinFast could become an electric vehicle superpower. … [continued]
A CleanTechnica exclusive, by Ed Darmanin, as told to David Waterworth. Ed Darmanin, a retired electrical engineer from Sydney, is planning to circumnavigate mainland Australia — the world’s largest island continent — on an electric motorcycle. Why? Because no one has ever done it before — and because, as two … [continued]
