I'm going to take a guess and say na baka stations ng mga electrified buses or trucks siguro yan. Baka inuna nila pinagawa ung stations before buying/bringing in the units kasi the number of existing units don't match pa.

It could also count Gogoro? Ayala isn't push this anymore, but based on their website, they still have active battery swapping stations.

Ah. Good question. Also why DC chargers, by DOE mandated, must be installed outdoors.

Why are the Tesla Superchargers in Uptown Mall and Shangri-La Plaza indoors then?

That is a very good question.

The 29,000 figure is based on new and renewal registrations. We only quoted the new registrations, which is the closest we can match to the figures given by CAMPI-TMA to deduce the registered number of BYD vehicles on our roads.

Home charging will always have the best savings price-wise (even more if you have solar). Until the country's electricity supply improves (hah!) and costs get cheaper then charging at stations will always carry a premium and are more of a last resort kahit matupad pa yung target na 7,300 na charging stations.

Is your statement about expense tied to your question or are they separate? Because if you're connecting the two, you are making a statement about far in the future expenses that you would then need to back up.

Also, EVs are far simpler than ICE cars pero parang inooverthink ng iba na hirap ma maintain. For the record, if hindi battery ang problem any shop can check and work on it. Given na ang tagal ng battery and electric motor warranties (8 years), surely 8 years from now may capabilities na din mga non casa.

Your post is kinda like getting a car loan from a bank then shouting "total freedom from commute expenses".
One should consider the high up front installation and material cost for those off-grid solar system (including future high maintenance cost i.e. battery replacement). That isnt financial freedom, but one just transposes the expense to another.

I'm not the guy you responded to, but everyone who gets solar computes the ROI. Solar is in a much better place than 10 years ago when the ROI would be around 5-10 years. Now, the ROI can be as low as 3 years. No one's saying solar is cheap but if you do the math the expense is well worth it even with the high capital needed.

For example, say you have a budget of around 1.2m. Instead of buying a 1.2m ICE car you opt to buy a 900k BEV/PHEV. With the 300k you saved you can already get a decent solar setup that can take care of your car fuel/range costs as well as get you monthly savings on your electricity bill. By year 3, not only will you have made back your 300k in savings in electricity bill expenses you would have saved a good deal of money in fuel costs as well (Let's say you save around 2k/month in fuel costs alone having gone with BEV/PHEVs. That's potentially another 72k in savings every 3 years).

By going this route, no amount of 'resale value' of legacy ICE cars can compete with what you get over a span of 6 years (and more as time goes on) by going BEV/PHEV + solar.

include in the equation the battery replacement cost of BEV/PHEV

Batteries have an average 8 year warranty. So by year 6 wala pa sa equation yun. Pero let's try anyway.

A full replacement, out of warranty, would currently cost around 150k BUT that's current costs (where it doesn't matter since may warranty pa).

For a more specific example, take BYD's batteries. They say that if you buy right now then by the time the 8 years warranty runs out that 150k price would be down to around (or below) 50k. That's not a ridiculous claim because battery prices have gone down a lot the last few years already. Add to that na hindi guaranteed na mag fail agad yung battery pag lampas ng warranty (designed to last the lifetime of the car ang battery - you can look to the really old EVs in the west for proof na hindi common ang battery replacement). So an extra 50k costs? A very small con pa rin vs all of the pros.

150k? Toyota HEV nga 125k- 200kbattery replacement cost. For now BEV like atto 3 battery replacement cost estimated 11k - 17k US dollars. Mas lalo pa mag mahal presyo later kasi paubos na mga minerals deposit and mag inkres manufacturing cost. motolite nga at eveready pamahal nang pamahal. Sales talk propaganda lang yang magmura later

BYD uses LFP batteries, whose materials are pretty abundant. Don't confuse NMC with LFP.

Have you seen an EV's battery pack? It's huge. Even a micro-EV's battery is huge, made up of plenty of individual cells that can function independently from each other. If one cell goes bad, the pack will still function. You're not gonna be replacing it like you do with your phone's battery.

@anon 8:28 PM

Toyota has not invested a lot kasi in EV tech, and to some extent even uses BYD batteries so naturally mas mahal yung costs nila kahit ang liit ng batteries nila.

The atto 3 replacement cost you quoted varies a lot on online sources (be careful with the AI generated summary ng google). Some sources are for 17k USD but that's buying the battery straight from a 3rd party chinese website (tapos 2024 pa yung listing). There are other sources from Australia (citing BloombergNEF) that quote 12,929 AUD (8433.97 USD, 484,594.78 PHP) for 2025. 30% of that cost is 145k. That's already less than 10% of the total cost of the car. Going back to savings with solar, kung BEV ka at malakas usage mo, your savings can easily be in the 10-15k range monthly compared to the 2k monthly in the earlier example. Less than 1 year of usage bawi ka na.

And about future prices. For perspective, current battery manufacturing prices are 10% of the cost back in 2008. That's how much prices have gone down. Hindi paubos ang mineral deposits, kung meron man may problema is yung US lang dahil sa tariff war nila with China. Yung China mismo walang problem sa supply.

Hindi matatawag na sales talk lng dahil na prove na with constantly lowering prices for years na at reported (and projected to still go lower) by multiple trusted agencies.