The land of the dreams – Mumbai has always captured the imagination of people all across the globe.
Every Mumbaikar will admit to the fact there is absolutely no place in the world like Mumbai. The food, the people, the beaches, the sky scrapers, the climate – everything about this city is absolutely fantastic!
But not so fantastic are the rickshaws that run through the heart of this city polluting the environment. Well fret no more Mumbaikar because we have just the right solution for you.
Designers Michael Scherger, Nina Thöming and Henrik Mucha have come up with a unique solution to make this city green and clean again.
Absurdly called the ‘Taxi Green Mumbai’ idea, the vehicle is not inspired by the Mumbai Taxis (Premier Padmini to be specific) but rather inspired by the Auto rickshaws of Mumbai city.
The vehicle is basically a hybrid which combines an electric engine with a gas powered one. When filled and charged completely, it gives the range of 300km with a top speed of 30 km/hr
The battery is located beneath the passengers and there is a small luggage compartment, which can be locked from inside the cabin.
And here is the best part, it’s a Convertible. So when it rains (and it does rain a lot in Mumbai), one can fully close it by pulling out a canvas cover. When there is good weather, the roof of the vehicle can be opened to enjoy the drive.
The designers say that their funds came from the government so that’s definitely worth applauding.
So this question goes to all Mumbaikars : Do you like it? We want to hear your comments below.
Source – Tuvie.com
i like it!, if this will come, than India set a step forwards, and it is also good that it is actually a Cabrio, i think th toerists will be happy with it, only con is that the speed limit is 30 km/h that’s too low, the minimum speed need to be around 70 km/h
[...] it is not as radical as Taxi Green Mumbai Concept but might just do the [...]
It seems more impractical than our current rickshaws!!…we need more enclosed body vehicles with doors and windows and aircon as our climate is not really suited for open top canvas top stuff. Whoever these guys are I am not concerned with but we already have NANO’s which i think are the best thing for all three and four wheeled taxi solutions anywhere in the world. The NANO is the best and is already available…now to get our taxi and rickshaw unions who hold the damn counrty randsom need to be fixed and asked to get NANO’s end of story we dont need another rickhaw derivative with facy wheels ..etc. The rick today I beleive anyway cost above a lac…and that to me is NANO territory……Our Gov’t are you listening or sleeping till another adarsh scam, CWG scam, or fuel inspector getting burnt to wake up
Doesn’t seem practically possible to be plying mass numbers on Mumbai roads.
Ugly!
This cannot see to reality in another 20 years, fossil fuel rocks, the adrenalin is unmatched, rather than creating this peace of shit u should create beauties that run on fuel cells and other flex fuel technologies. Leave the batteries for the inverters……. Or, go and work with TESLA MOTORS and learn what ?
(0% emission + freaking power = Tesla Roadster). Grow up Battery Boys……