Photo of solar-powered mototaxi by Universidad Nactional in Lima. What’s worse about the two-stroke engines still common workhorses in motors of all kinds – the pollution or the noise? In Lima, Peru, plagued by air pollution, it’s probably the former. An ingenious professor at the University of San Marcos has designed a solar panel retrofit of the two-stroke “mototaxis” that fill the streets of the city which can run on pedal-power or a battery hooked to the solar panels…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Polluting Two-Stroke "Mototaxi" Goes Solar
