MANILA – Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian on Monday called on the Department of Energy (DOE) to accelerate electric vehicle adoption to lessen the country’s reliance on imported oil and ease the burden of high fuel prices. “The only way we can break our addiction to oil imports is to adopt EVs as quickly as possible,” Gatchalian said in a statement. He said the DOE should expedite the implementation of policies requiring government agencies to procure only EVs. Transportation accounts for 60 percent of the country’s oil import requirements, Gatchalian said. The country is expected to have 100,000 registered EVs, up from […]...
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