sasiranga de silva won a un award for creating a simple kit which converts petrol tuk—tuk engines toology, what was the inspiration behind it? as you can see sri lanka is a beautiful country, but since recently we noticed that the emission levels are higher, so the respiratory diseases, levels of disease are going high there, so i thought, you know, as an engineer, if i do my best, to contribute to bring the emissions down in sri lanka. what do you think it is going to take to get your conversion get up and running, produced on a mass scale? because it is quite high, and a tuk—tuk is quite a low cost product, so the conversion cost has to be as low as possible for drivers to afford it. so i have been doing so many research so i can downside the battery so i can reduce the cost. sasiranga hopes he can bring the cost of his conversion kit down by a quarter, to the equivalent of about us$1700 or £1300. and here's another eye—catching innovation — an emission—free electric model. of course the litmus test will be whether electric tuk—tu ks are accepted by local drivers. this is where the

sasiranga de silva won a un award for creating a simple kit which converts petrol tuk—tuk engines to research so i can downside the battery so i can reduce the cost. sasiranga hopes he can bring the cost of his conversion kit down by a quarter, to the equivalent of about us$1700 or £1300. and here's another eye—catching innovation — an emission—free electric model. of course the litmus test will be whether electric tuk—tu ks are accepted by local drivers. this is where the magic happens. so i have asked this thushari to join me on a taster session. so this is it, yeah, a bit different to what we're used to. i am going in the back though. makes a change, to be driven around. it's so quiet, isn't it? compared to the four stroke engine, it's almost silent. (laughs). the suspension's still the same though, still getting rattled around in the back. we're pretty lucky though, we're among the first people to try this electric tuk—tuk. excellent driving, excellent driving. so how was it, how did it feel? ifeel your pain. and would you one day like to own one of these? the issue of affordabil