Electric Rickshaw

A few years ago, Living Routes helped fund the development of two electric rickshaws in Auroville as part of our Carbon Mitigation Strategy and to support more ecological transport there.

For months before we came to Auroville, I dreamed of using one of these electric rickshaws as our family vehicle.  Here's a video of both the dream and reality of driving one.  In the end, we decided it was too difficult and uncomfortable, so now we have three vehicles: Monique drives a moped and I drive a motocycle (here known as a "bike") because each of these vehicles can hold one of us and both girls (I chose a bikr over a moped as it is more fuel efficient, but Monique feels it is too big for her).  We also have an electric "cycle" (bicycle), which can hold two people, that I typically ride when I'm going around with the students (who all have cycles).