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Motorcycle show highlights green technology

A man sits in an electric motorcycle on the opening day of the Third Taiwan International Motorcycle Show at the Taipei World Trade Center yesterday. The motorcycle was developed by the Industrial Technology Research Institute. The exhibition closes on Saturday. PHOTO: CNA

The Third Taiwan International Motorcycle Industry Show opened yesterday, focusing on environmental protection, with a special pavilion devoted to the most advanced equipment that incorporates green concepts and technology, organizers said.

“This year’s show has a new slogan — ‘New Era for a Green Planet’ — to show Taiwanese motorcycle manufacturers’ commitment to environmental protection,” Donald Lu (呂文瑞), executive vice president of the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA, 外貿協會), the main organizer of the exhibition, said in the opening ceremony.

A pavilion has also been set up at the exhibition to showcase Taiwan’s fuel-injection (FI) jet engine, which uses less fuel and reduces emission.

“The FI jet engine makes motorcycle fuel consumption more efficient. So that reduces exhaust gas emission,” said a pavilion staffer, who declined to be named, adding that an FI jet engine could reduce fuel consumption by 10 percent compared with a combustion engine, the kind generally used in the country.

“The Taiwanese motorcycle industry’s supply chain is complete, ranging from the upper to the middle and lower stream businesses and includes motorcycle components and finished products. All these offer full international market development potential.”

Eric Chiang, deputy director of the Bureau of Foreign Trade

higher price

However, consumers have to pay about NT$5,000 to NT$8,000 more for the high-tech engine, he said.

Regulations stipulate that all new motorcycles on the market must be equipped with FI engines starting next year in line with the government’s fifth stage motorcycle emission standard.

The fifth stage emission standard, which was put into effect in July last year, is one of the strictest motorcycle exhaust standards in the world, the organizers said.

“The Taiwanese motorcycle industry’s supply chain is complete, ranging from the upper to the middle and lower stream businesses and includes motorcycle components and finished products. All these offer full international market development potential,” Eric Chiang (蔣士煌), deputy director of the Bureau of Foreign Trade, told foreign and local buyers in his opening remarks.

expanding

Taiwan’s motorcycle show is the second-largest in Asia, behind only Tokyo. The scale of the Taiwanese show has been expanding annually, with an annual growth rate of 13 percent for manufacturers participating and 30 percent for the number of booths set up, organizers said.

About 20,000 visitors are expected at the four-day show at the Taipei World Trade Center, with the first two days reserved for buyers and the last two open to the general public.

Taiwan is the sixth-largest motorcycle manufacturer in the world, Chiang said, after China, India, Indonesia, Thailand and Japan.

A total of 481 booths in the exhibition are exhibiting motorcycles, scooters, engines, noise and emission inspection equipment, as well as maintenance equipment and accessories.


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