No Chinese-made batteries in electric buses, MOTC says By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter Two manufacturers in a Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) pilot project for electric buses use battery cells made in Japan, not China, the ministry said last week. The ministry issued the statement after Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Lin Chun-hsien (林俊憲) said that the ministry was subsidizing purchases of electric buses powered by Chinese-made battery cells. Apart from providing a subsidy of up to NT$10 million (US$354,773) to bus operators for each electric bus they buy, the ministry also requires that a majority of the components in the vehicles be made in Taiwan to qualify for the subsidy.