{"id":188,"date":"2008-10-17T13:46:26","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T21:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2008-10-17T13:46:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T21:46:26","slug":"soleckshaw-solar-electric-rickshaws-power-through-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/electric-vehicles\/soleckshaw-solar-electric-rickshaws-power-through-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Soleckshaw Solar-Electric Rickshaws Power Through India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A product named Soleckshaw has put its foot down that rickshaws should go solar in India. On the streets of Old Delhi older pedal pushers are getting a battery assist in their driving, which is especially helpful up hills.<\/p>\n<p>The rickshaws carry batteries and electrical motor assist onboard (designed by Crompton Greaves) and will need to pull into an off-board solar charging station as needed. The 36-volt battery can run for about 45 miles before recharging is necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The Soleckshaw seats three and has a maximum top end speed of around 12.5 mph. India\u2019s state run Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research is now figuring out how to rollout the solar-electric rickshaws nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>In a melding of old cultures and new it is refreshing to see that <a title=\"rickshaws\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/asia\/article4963756.ece\" target=\"_blank\">rickshaws<\/a> are now getting upgraded using renewable energy methods. What could be next, solar-powered paddle boats? Anyone? Anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A product named Soleckshaw has put its foot down that rickshaws should go solar in India. On the streets of Old Delhi older pedal pushers are getting a battery assist in their driving, which is especially helpful up hills. The rickshaws carry batteries and electrical motor assist onboard (designed by Crompton Greaves) and will need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}