Cleaner Air in Kathmandu
WHAT IS MADE in India, is powered by Bangladeshi batteries, charged with Nepali electricity, and runs on us-made DC motors?
Answer: Kathmandu´s electric three-wheeler commuter vehicles.
Called Safa (Clean) Tempo, they are white in colour and green in nature. With zero emission, they are different from the 3,000 or so diesel-powered smoke-belching tempos that ply the narrow streets of Kathmandu.