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Electric vehicle (EV) drivers would eventually have to pay fuel charges, Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) said yesterday. Wang made the remark at a meeting of the legislature’s transportation committee in response to questions about how the ministry would make up for an eventual shortfall in revenue as more drivers switch to electric vehicles. The government collects about NT$53 billion (US$1.78 billion) in fuel charge revenue per year, which funds road maintenance projects, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Lee Kun-tse (李昆澤) said. Whi...

WINDING ROAD: While the number of vehicles increased from 8.19 million in 2020 to 8.33 million last year, fuel charge revenue fell as EV sales rose, a legislator saidBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporter

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More than 90 percent of Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) drivers have indicated they would take the Dragon Boat Festival holiday off on June 3 to protest a plan by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications to corporatize the railway agency, the Taiwan Railway Labor Union said yesterday. The announcement sets the stage for a second strike by TRA workers during an important holiday, after the union held a strike that ground the nation’s largest railway system to a halt on International Workers’ Day on May 1. The plan to transform the railway agency into a state-run corporation w...

An order has been placed for more than 100,000 rapid COVID-19 test kits for workers at railway stations, post offices, airports and seaports through an interdepartmental procurement platform set up by the government, Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) told a meeting of the legislature’s Transportation Committee yesterday. The committee had invited Wang to brief its members on how the nation’s mass transportation systems would maintain normal operations as the number of domestic COVID-19 cases continue to rise over the next few weeks. Deputy Minister of ...