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Oct 14, 2008

"Even after all this time, The sun never says to the earth, "You owe Me." Look what happens with a love like that, It lights the Whole Sky." --Hafiz

India's Humble Rickshaw Goes Solar

It's been touted as a solution to urban India's traffic woes, chronic pollution and fossil fuel dependence, as well as an escape from backbreaking human toil. A state-of-the-art, solar powered version of the humble cycle-rickshaw promises to deliver on all this and more. The "soleckshaw," unveiled this month in New Delhi, is a motorized cycle rickshaw that can be pedaled normally or run on a 36-volt solar battery.