LAHORE – Pakistan to produce indigenous built cheap electric Motorbikesacross the country.
Local bike manufacturers have started producing bikes being run onelectricity in order to get rid of soaring oil prices.
Two motorbike assemblers in Sahiwal city of Punjab have started workingtogether to manufacture electric motorcycles in Pakistan, reported by BBCUrdu.
As the Petrol prices rising in the country, it has become difficult formost of the middle-class motorbike riders to afford them. It is a need oftime for Pakistan to shift to electric vehicles from expensive fuel.
In the last few years, various companies have introduced electricmotorbikes in the country. But they could not win public attention becauseof different reasons. One of them was that they were very costly.
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According to the Usman Sheikh, CEO of Auj Technologies, a Lahore-basedelectric motorcycle company, that they are working on an electric bikewhich will be budget-friendly. The bike is named after the animal “Jaguar”.Usman Sheikh added that “they are first assemblers of electric bikes inPakistan, who have designed them locally”.
These electric motorbikes have the same shape and design as ordinarymotorcycles, instead of petrol, they run on electric batteries.Manufacturers have not compromised on engine and body parts of the bikes,as they are equipped with very much similar to already available Japanesetechnology in the market.
