{"id":117188,"date":"2021-08-16T15:39:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T22:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117188"},"modified":"2021-08-16T15:39:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T22:39:44","slug":"could-the-electric-tuk-tuk-be-a-success-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/16\/could-the-electric-tuk-tuk-be-a-success-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Could the electric tuk-tuk be a success in Sri Lanka?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy BBC<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>There are over one million tuk-tuks (also known as auto rickshaws) in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are cheap to use but can also be very polluting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now electric tuk-tuks are being developed as well as conversion kits to change petrol powered vehicles to run on batteries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But will they take off?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/n13xtmtp\">The Travel Show&#8217;s Lucy Hedges\u00a0<\/a>looks at the technology and test drives an electric vehicle with tuk-tuk driver Thushari Medagamage to find out more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/world-asia-51489701\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/world-asia-51489701<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy BBC There are over one million tuk-tuks (also known as auto rickshaws) in Sri Lanka. They are cheap to use but can also be very polluting. Now electric tuk-tuks are being developed as well as conversion kits to change petrol powered vehicles to run on batteries. But will they take off? The Travel Show&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}