Accelerating the adoption and life-cycle solutions to electric mobility in Thailand To mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector by addressing barriers to the adoption and scale-up of electric mobility in Thailand through enhancing policy and regulatory framework, technology demonstrations in Thailand's Eastern Economic Corridor, and capacity building and knowledge sharing. Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency. The project will create socio-economic benefits at that national and local level by supporting Thailand's electric vehicle market continue to develop, in turn creating co-benefits in the form of new jobs along the EV value chain in Thailand, a reduction in Thailand's contribution to GHG emissions globally, and improvements in national and local air quality. Electric vehicles have emerged as a key technological solution to decarbonizing the transport sector and Thailand's decision to pursue development of their own EV automotive sector nationally creates synergies to meet climate targets while creating opportunities for people to work, develop new technological skills and improve the quality of life in local communities. The project supports this through the development of support programme for entrepreneurs and SMEs working on electric mobility, and supports inclusivity by dedicated attention to women entrepreneurs working in the space and support opportunities for women to work in the labour market in Thailand. From a gender perspective, the project also supports development of safe, clean and efficient transport for men and women, in turn supporting economic growth by reducing travel time and providing reliable modes of transport through new proposed policy and planning measures.These co-benefits are quantified and further described in more detail below:1. Development of renewable energy and decarbonization of the grid and the electricity sector:The demonstration component of project will contribute to the increased installed capacity of PV systems by 1.3 MW.2. Improvement of the air quality or reduction of air pollutants:As described in the ESMP, in addition to the benefit of GHG emission reduction, there will be co-benefits of reducing major air pollutants like NOx, SO2, PM2.5, and other pollutants due to the pilot use of electric vehicles and the establishment of electric vehicles charging stations integrated with renewable energy systems within the Project.The pilot use of electric vehicles will replace some existing public transport vehicles including songthaews which are diesel-run and are very old, with an average age of more than 20 years and with relatively high exhaust pipe emissions of air pollutants. Thus, electric songthaews which will replace diesel-run songthaews will lead to no exhaust-pipe emissions and will certainly and directly benefit passengers of these songthaews through improving air quality for those traveling on these songthaews.In addition, the pilot use of electric vehicles will take place along selected key public transport routes in Rayong city, which pass major places and community areas in Rayong such as schools, technical colleges, markets, bus terminals, and government offices located in the central area of Rayong, and include traffic jams in rush-hour periods leading to higher concentrations of air pollutants. Thus, the pilot use of electric public transport electric vehicles replacing diesel-run vehicles will result in reduced concentrations of air pollutants especially PM2.5 and improve air quality along the operating routes, and thus will benefit local people along the routes and users of public transport vehicles including women and students.The project’s interventions, including the demonstration of electric songthaews and electric minibuses replacing diesel-run songthaews and minibuses, are expected to contribute to addressing pollutants in the transportation sector in the EEC and Thailand over the project period at the national level, as promoted by the Thai government. The estimated impact for PM 2.5, SO2 and NOx is as follows:- PM2.5 by 33,985 tonnes (10,195 direct and 23,789 indirect);- SO2 by 10,614 tonnes (432,587 direct and 7,430 indirect); and- NOx by 1,441,958 tonnes (432,587 direct and 1,009,370 indirect).3. The development of EV industry sector:The interventions of the project (both the policy, demonstration, and capacity building and knowledge exchange) will altogether contribute to the development of EV industry sector and ecosystems for EV entrepreneurship, including-Increased jobs in the EV industry sector (30 indirect jobs in R&amp;D and Manufacturing, 27 indirect jobs as drivers of songthaews and minibuses, 6 direct jobs and 2 indirect jobs as technicians at service centers, and 1 direct job and 6 indirect jobs at charging stations). These increased jobs are a result of direct project intervention but as these business models are replicated and scaled up to other Thai cities, this number is expected to be greater.- increased SMEs or start-ups in the EV ecosystems or value chain including- 2 local manufacturer(s) to develop electric songthaew prototype.- 5 potential entrepreneurs to develop maintenance service centers for electric songthaews and minibuses.- 10 operators of songthaews and minibuses for public transport to adopt electric songthaews and minibuses, respectively- 5-10 operators of EV charging stations to integrate PV systems with their chargers.- 2 start-ups in analyzing and applying data to support planning and management of charging infrastructure, and GHG emissions reduction- 2 start-ups in developing mobile applications to support planning and management of fleets of electric songthaews and minibuses and charging schedules4. Passengers transitioned to electric public transport:Theproject’s interventions will also support transitioning 31,400 passengers of public transport from diesel fueled songthaews and mini-buses to electric songthaews and mini-buses with 50% estimated to be women.5. Trainees and workshop participantsTrainees and workshop participants, including those that benefit from manuals and brochures has been calculated to be 1450 with 50% of women.