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As e-trykes and other e-vehicles (EVs) start to ply on Metro Manila streets, the Department of Science and Technology gears up its support to these new modes of transport. One of DOST-supported initiatives is a locally developed facility that can charge e-vehicles in less than 30 minutes instead of the usual six hours. This quick charging station for EVs will soon be available in Mandaluyong City.

The facility is called Rapid Charging E-Vehicle Station, or simply CharM – a project by the University of the Philippines-Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute (UP-EEEI) with P15 million funding from the Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (PCIEERD) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).

The CharM for e-trykes, also called Charging in Minutes, is a new technology in the country.

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“Balik puso, balik Pinas.” This was the call of Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Secretary Mario G. Montejo to Filipino scientists based abroad during the Gala Night for Balik-Scientists held last October 10 at the EDSA Shangri-la Manila, Mandaluyong City.

Montejo lauded the scientists who have returned under the DOST’s Balik Scientist Program (BSP) “offering their life’s work as shining testimony to the power of knowledge sharing and good old Pinoy bayanihan”, and urged others to do the same.

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“We know more about our universe than our planet earth.”

This was the surprising revelation of Dr. Arvin C. Diesmos, Scientist III of the National Museum, during the recently held “First Science Congress of Caloocan” organized by Association of Science Department Heads of Caloocan in partnership with the Young Christian Physicist Society of the Philippines, Scientific Career System and the Philippine Association of Career Scientists, Inc.

He explained that scientists’ estimates of the number of species on earth vary from 5 million to 100 million—with a very wide margin of error. Likewise, many of our scientific endeavors are focused on taxonomy, which pertains to naming and classification of species, while our knowledge of how these organisms live are very limited.

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Brighter employment prospects await at least 800 individuals who have received free training for CNC Tool Programming and Operations from the Department of Science and Technology- Metals Industry Research and Development Center (DOST-MIRDC).

MIRDC’s training program is part of DOST’s push for industry competitiveness in the metals and engineering sector and in accordance with Secretary Mario G. Montejo’s directive to address the lack of workers with this skill in the manufacturing industry.