My New Green Transportation
My green transportation – Which One is it ?
One of the things I like about living in China is not having and needing a car.
In general, China has done a good job of providing convenient public transportation. In fact, public transportation infrastructure of its new mega-cites are unrivaled any other place in the World.
That doesn’t mean that the vanity of the super-rich (China is the largest market of luxury cars in the World) or the image mongering rising classes aren’t wreaking havoc with the cities air by purchasing an ever-increasing numbers of cars. But the non-car alternative is readily available.
In rural areas, bicycles, motorcycles and an enormous number of electrical scooters and horse carts are also readily available. But I have been feeling for a while, especially in Sanya in Yunnan that I would like to augment my frequent walking with another green mode of transportation.
I considered all sorts of things as pictured here until I finally decided on getting a “treecycle.”(see www.mgt-engineering.com). Named after its designer and my friend, Chris Trees, it is a beautiful piece of art and engineering.
I first ordered the non-electric model but now am thinking of helping with a hybrid/solar-electric prototype.
Here is first batch of pictures, more will be posted once it is delivered.
