VIDEO: Tuk-tuks for transport

Jan 31 2011 No Comments

How do you get to work, school or your other daily activities?

Possible answers (just to help you out): bus, car, bike or by foot.

Wait, I missed one: electric pedicabs.

Yes. A new company in Lansing, Mich. called Spar-Thai Green Cab will employ 12 of the small, three-wheeled electric vehicles later this year, Capital Gains reported.

A visit to Thailand introduced owner David Thorin to the Thai equivalent, tuk-tuks. He thought a similar idea might work for the Lansing area, reported Capital Gains.

How they’ll hold up in the rain, snow and other Michigan weather treasures is unknown. But at $2.50 for a one-way trip in the service area, I’d face the hazards for the environment and for the cheapness.

Personally, I found tuk-tuks fun and convenient – and much more dangerous then these pedicabs will be — while working on this story in India.

Needless to say, I was not inspired to start my own tuk-tuk company. Shooting video and holding on simultaneously was challenging enough.

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