Technology Report - ADB Loan to Finance E-trikes in Philippines Listening and Doing Exercise: Select Play button. Listen and fill in the blanks with suggest words AsianEnglishForeloFromTheaaboutandbumpsbydaydowne-trikesfromgas-poweredkeepoperatepassengerspaythanthatthetowants VOA Learning English, this is Technology, in Special English. Asian Development Bank has approved a $300 million loan help finance an electric vehicle program in the Philippines. goal is to reduce pollution. The money will help for tricycles powered by electricity, or e-trikes-. The Philippines to have 100,000 of the vehicles on the road 2017. E-trike driver Alfredo Forelo says the battery can for five or six hours. He paid one dollar 25 cents to charge the battery. He says, in past, he spent as much as four dollars a on fuel for a gasoline-powered tricycle. Tricycle drivers usually about four dollars a day to rent their vehicles operators. Alfredo Forelo says he earns about $17 a from driving an e-trike after costs. That is more double the average daily earning of someone driving a tricycle. The e-trike can carry as many as eight . The vehicle has a roof that protects passengers from sun and rain. The city of Mandaluyong chose Alfredo to help with a demonstration program of 20 e-trikes-. director of the city's Tricycle Regulation Office says the Development Bank chose Mandaluyong because of its desire to the air clean. He says the city will offer rent-to-own program for the e-trikes-. The electronic vehicles cost $5,000. Traditional motorcycles cost about $3,000. There have been in the road however. Seven of the city's 20 already need repair, and waiting for parts is slowing the program. Bank and city officials have now learned manufacturers must fully guarantee their parts. For VOA Learning , I'm Carolyn Presutti. SCORE:
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