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OKYO: Toyota is all set to launch electric tricycles in Pakistan to meet the demand for low-cost and fuel-efficient transport in a country with increasing demand for the auto industry.
The agreement between Hiroyuki Toyoda, President of T-Trike Company a subsidiary of Toyota Motors and Rana Abid Hussain, President of the Pak-Japan Business Council, on the distribution rights of electric tricycles has recently been signed.
Hussain told The News that, initially, 3,000 electric tricycles would be launched in Pakistan, while, in the next process, electric bicycles would also be developed locally for which talks are underway.
The President of the Council said that the President of the business is scheduled to meet with the Ambassador of Pakistan to Japan, Imtiaz Ahmed, next week after which formal exports will take place. Electric tricycles are manufactured by Toyota Motors, a world-renowned Japanese automotive corporation.
The vehicle will be launched in collaboration with the Pak-Japan Business Council. The new electronic tricycle was built under the supervision of Hiroyuki Toyoda, the son of Kiichiro Toyoda, the founder of Toyota Motor Corporation. Hussain said electric tricycles are rapidly gaining popularity in Japan and the company has developed 150 sales locations across the world. The new electric tricycle can bear a weight of 150 kilograms and can run up to 60 kilometers at full load.