विद्युतीय कार र्यालीको सुरुवात गर्दै कलाकार मदनकृष्ण श्रेष्ठ । तस्बिर : भास्वर ओझा
The city-based Reva Electric Car Company will roll out Reva, India's first electric car, into the export market. The company has inked a three-year deal with Ecovisions to export the cars to Nepal.
HISTORY OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES IN NEPAL:
TROELLY BUS
TROELLY BUS was the first Electric Vehicle ever introduced in Kathmandu. With the assistance of the Government of People’s Republic of China ‘Trolley Buses’ or the first electric vehicles were installed in Nepal in 1975 for public transportation. At that time, 22 trolley buses plied along the 13-km route from Tripureswor of Kathmandu to Surya-Binayak of Bhaktapur.
SAFA TEMPOO
In 1996, Nepal Electric Vehicle Company introduced battery-operated electric three wheelers, which is known as ‘Safa Tempos’. After the announcement of government to ban the polluting diesel three wheelers from Kathmandu valley, most of them were converted to Safa Tempos. Now the number of Safa Tempos has exceeded 600 and is their number is continuing to increase. These tempos are now also used by offices too such as government ministries, municipalities, as well as private organizations.
REVA electric car
In 1996, Mr. Adam Friedensohn, (USA) Marketing Consultant of Eco-Visions Pvt. Ltd. (Nepal), reached an agreementwith REVA Electric Car Company, (Bangalore, India) to secure the exclusive distributionship of REVA in Nepal. In 2001, REVA Electric Car Company renewed the distributorship for Nepal with Eco-Visions Pvt. Ltd. In 2002 (Feb), the first five REVA cars were imported into Nepal via Birgunj Customs under the promised 10 per cent Duty.