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including impacting the countries, animals and pets. ah, i melissa chan, thanks for joining us. if you've ever visited thailand, you know about the took, took the ubiquitous motorized rituals that can weave their way through traffic and get you where you need to be. but you may have also noticed the gas fumes contributing to air pollution. well that is starting to change as the took took goes electric. mm. for decades these 3 wheels have been a feature of bangkok street. the talk to highlands on the from sure i can. it's fast, it's loud and tourists love it. when my vanilla from what i think took or something

tied on should be proud of them. they are unique and represent thailand. went into having bought as iconic as the 3 wheeled vehicle may be. the technology hasn't been updated for nearly half a century, and it has been a major contributor to bank hawks. poor air quality. more than $300.00 of these electric took, took snack are about to change that well, half of them a dime and but as a truck driver, you normally after shift gears manually. yeah. but this one is fully automatic on the wireless fall and very convenient to drive thin look whereby will minor and not just the engine has been changed. the entire booking system is controlled by an at the clean writing cards are made for 6 passengers rather than just 3 using the up electric took took can be shared and it's comparatively cheap. oh yeah. yeah, i want to reduce the damage to the environment. so i prefer electric took talks,

whether it's a step towards making the world a better place. and it's nice to travel without toxic fumes. ha ha. so far the electric truck trucks have saved some $800.00 tons of c o. 2 emissions. the company that makes the truck trucks move me plans to have 1000 electric, 3 wheelers on the street by next year, covering other major cities and thailand to most classical truck drivers agree that they will be outnumbered so that our i didn't really took, took, took has kept me going for more than 30 years in nowadays. it's very hard to earn money, especially with electric competitors. my mandate will be in the positive news is says the move me co founder that since the pandemic, the took took, has become more attractive for locals. and that's good news for the entire industry . the mobility change, the lights before at that thing. like if you sit in some,

something is not air condition, it's very hot. and ac on it's on his way. luckily. but after call it something fresh air with dave as he was as more hill d for tourists. the electric version has another clear advantage. the price is fixed by the up, and there is no more haggling. this can make a bangkok temple tour all the more relaxing. we have, sir, at waller's assistant professor, focused on environmental science at cassettes art university in bangkok. joining us serrato is this e took, took a step in the right direction. yeah. oh, well hi, land bank, hope it aborigines. the crisis. if you've got a coal where gold is should be good us. but for me or me to to just

only small proportion. all the we're cold in bangkok, so if the chaise just total is not enough to shing, the game of the average and in bangkok. so how is going electric working in thailand for the other vehicles? i mean there's a lot of infrastructure. the government would need to set up and even in rich countries like the united states, that this has been a real struggle. yes for, for, for thailand, bang for wiggle is here. maybe a little bit slowly. ching, in terms of odd shape phones will combustion to b. o electric, real coal is like the shang, but it's not showing as much as are the country. it become higher to western country china or usa or ural,

i think is sir older than them. a lot for that one. so if the government is not doing enough, why not? i mean, is it just a budget issue? because a having to set up these electric stations is it is very costly i think the problem is not to budget, but in terms of the policy, because we shing, that policy about real or a lot from time to time in the past. if you look at, in, in, in, in the past of, of, of chi vehicle, this shane cromer article is that the congressional will to beer. it's a law and something like that. that mean the policy has been ching all the time.

so the private sector cannot, or i just them, so to be a real direction all do policy of the goldman. that why, why a little bit slowly into all. i mean, i blame the policy isn't mand factor, right? and just so that people have an understanding on how popular are electric vehicles in thailand, i mean, they're becoming quite trendy in europe and north america. are you seeing the trends go in the right direction? the early adopters tend to be richer, but are we seeing the upper middle class buying e most? but for thailand, for the type people, we're still not l like a middle class all over, all of the people that can have a budget to change that, that we'll call this do have

a limit of the that budget teaching that we call that. why? if the policy is not or is not clear and people cannot, oh have now budget to help them. so teaching that vehicle the why the problem all day, ching we're cold is take a bit a little bit slowly. one got it. now, bank hung famously has suffered air pollution for, for decades. and can you give us a picture of other large scale attempts being made to combat the problem? i mean, i guess for those who have not been to bangkok in a while, including myself, has the problem in the city gotten worse or are you seeing improvements? yeah, for me, for me in terms of academic people, we, how do we use us for the air version? we do something like a source apartment to look at the source of,

of the problem of the pollution, especially on pm $2.00 and a particular until we found at the band demand. the major source of the problem is, comes on transport ation, right. i so i told everyone i talk to people about this one, how to shane the source like, oh for through for will competition in it in the car to be it electric car. but as, as i mentioned before, the chain is quite not clear into mo, courtesy and the, the goldman not tech go for the source of the problem. did try to shing like, her perception of the people. how did it just and protect themselves from the average? it's that is do,

i mean that is the work that we have done in the past. but right now we need to chose star into real source of the problem. i mean, in terms of the transport, asian shing, the recall to be, or car is good for everyone to, to do that in terms of technology and it to the people to do that. but we did to people, are we need the government to house the people to shame that that, that, that, that caught their car order but got it. so at twilight, thank you so much for joining us. just thank you for pakistan is struggling to deal with rampant inflation. food prices rose by 35 percent last month. all part of the economic spiral. the country has found itself in we've reported on the people impacted. but here is

a look at how every aspect of society is dealing with runaway costs. a visit to pakistan's biggest animal shelter. the stray cat was found with severe burns in a residential area of karachi. loaded onto a trailer, the animal is taken to the asia, chandry gar, foundation for treatment its burns are cleaned up, and the cats expected to make a full recovery. caring for animals is expensive at the best of times. but pakistan's, current, economic and energy crisis means soaring, costs of food medicines and transport for almost $700.00 animals, is putting a heavy burden on the foundations funds are the more people find out the more that color that and really and i team goes out, we rescue the animals, we bring them back to our sanctuary. minimize the cost to go up as well, because in the fuel prices go, our friend the, the van is out constantly. i don't lie the, there, the number of animals increase at the sanctuary. the thought classical and then the

medicine classical out. this is one of those unpredictable sort of came there to where i gotta keep adapting and adjusting to their the rescue load of the day. for example, a cf mainly takes in dogs and cats, but also provide shelter from any other animals. there's an eagle enclosure for birds which have been hurt by electricity wires or been attacked by predators. the shelter even has room for donkeys, cows, goats, any creature that needs help. st. animals, particularly dogs, are often a part of the urban landscape and developing countries like pakistan. each year there are hundreds of thousands of dog bite cases and up to $5000.00 people, die of rabies. calling of stray dogs has been widespread. although the practice was bound in 2021 and a scheme introduced to vaccination user, the animals instead, implementation has been poor. but there is a growing debate about the mistreatment of animals. they begin this bad so much of areas for social media through our work on the street with the rescue with the

rescue of angle and that every day we have the rest circle. i sent out the for coil as we go with pick up animals to the more and again, these are people will see in our work. they know the think there's to, the more people find out the more the color, which is brilliant. chandra gar, hopes is growing. awareness translates into better conditions for animals and pakistan. that's it for friday. be sure to check out our other stories on d. w dot com, forward slash asia. my name is melissa chan in berlin. thanks for watching and have a great weekend with every journey is full of surprises. we've gone all out to give you some tips one day and in the footsteps of the rigby home. i'm in your northern most count

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