Test run for Japanese electric three-wheeler to be manufactured in Sri Lanka in 2020

Test run for Japanese electric three-wheeler to be manufactured in Sri Lanka in 2020

The government is getting ready to convert three-wheelers which presently have become the bulk of motor vehicles which run on fuel in Sri Lanka, in the year 2020. 

In this connection Minister Mangala Samaraweera has publicised joining in a test-run as depicted in photographs across his Twitter account. He has mentioned there that he would be introducing an eco-friendly three-wheeler system sans fuel through Japan -Sri Lanka collaboration and that the three-wheeler would be manufactured in Sri Lanka. He has further stated that as a part of the Paris
Agreement it has promised to bring down 10% of greenhouse gas-emission through this method within the field of transport by 2020.

This electric vehicle has been developed for Sri Lanka alone by a Japanese electric company known as T-PLAN Incorporation. Its speciality is that the vehicle comprises of two front wheels and one rear wheel. Though some electric three-wheelers of this type was tried out by Toyota Company recently, its size was not big enough. But the T sal vehicles provide equal space as much as those being used at present. Several facilities which are not found in present vehicles could be found in the referred to vehicle, including GPS. These three-wheelers would be manufactured in Sri Lanka by the middle of 2020. "After that, T-PLAN hopes to export electrically-powered vehicles of Sri Lanka to be exported to Japan and such plans are underway ... which is something to be happy about", the minister says.