They could imprive the styling a bit - people in India are a bit self concsious while riding a car.
Umesh
Trygo-X set to hit city roads
By A Staff Reporter
By A Staff Reporter
http://www.assamtribune.com/
GUWAHATI, May 24 There is a new head turner on the Guwahati roads. Small and zippy, the yellow coloured Trygo-X is fast enough to flow along with the traffic on the city streets. But the three-wheeled, two-seater cars USP (unique selling proposition) is its fuel efficiency. The pudding in the cake, of course, is that the car is a home-bred product.
Trygo-X has everything going for it. In these days of spiralling petrol prices, Trygo-X delivers an astounding 40 kilometre per litre of petrol, and even more on highways. Not surprisingly, eminent journalist and litterateur Kanak Sen Deka, president of the Asam Sahitya Sabha, was gushing today after a ride on Trygo-X. It was he who ceremonially flagged off the car during its first public display today.
It is nice to have someone here so innovative, said Deka. Hoping it would start a new tradition in innovation among the local people, he pointed out that the efficiency of transport and communication is a major yardstick of development.
Whenever I went to drop off my daughter to school, I wondered why we cannot have a stylish mini car that could negotiate the Guwahati traffic and also save on fuel, said Kanak Gogoi (44), the man who has conceived and fabricated Trygo-X.
It is this quest that led him to painstakingly design the car that holds a lot of promise. Gogoi, a businessman, spent over a month in the backyard of his Sarumotoria home building his dream carpiece by piece. The car is built on the chassis of an auto rickshaw, with the two back wheels coming to the front and the lone fore wheel going back. It has five gears, including the reverse gear, a drive shaft, right hand steering, removable roof hood and enough power to stay ahead of the pack on the roads. Trygo-X has easy manoeuvrability going for it too.
The car will cost Rs 55,000-60,000 provided we get the tax exemptions said Gogoi. The lone Trygo-X on the road today is only an experimental car. Gogoi has already tested it on the roads and is personally very satisfied. I never though it would be so successful, he admitted after having driven it for the last few days. He now plans to come out with a prototype vehicle before applying to the Pune-based Automotive Research Institution (ARI) for certification of road worthiness. The ARI is the only agency in India that certifies vehicles before commercial scale production commence.
Gogoi is enthused by the fact that a transport department motor vehicle inspector (MVI) has already taken a ride on his vehicle and has expressed satisfaction with its performance. For those who have been keeping track of innovators, Kanak Gogoi should be a familiar name. He has been experimenting with machines for several years now. It is a hobby, said the man who has already created amphibious bicycles and hovercraft.
The first model of Trygo-X weighs a mere 175 kg. We will try to reduce the weight further, said Gogoi. That will mean enhanced fuel efficiency.
AK Das, professor of design at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IIT-G), who was present during the formal flag off of Trygo-X, saw no basic flaws in the cars design though he admitted some modifications might be required, mostly ergonomic. It is for the first time in India that someone has designed a car with two front wheels and one rear wheel.
Of course, city-based North-East Hi-tech Society (NEHS) is willing to go all out to help Gogoi complete all formalities to start commercial production of Trygo-X. We will help in the marketing of the car besides getting the necessary permits, said Hemanta Kumar Bharali, general secretary of the NGO that is otherwise involved in creating knowledge centres across the state in association with the Swaminathan Research Foundation, Bangalore.
I wanted to give the people a fuel efficient but stylish car, said Gogoi. A car at the price and running cost of a motorcycle. What more could you ask for?
GUWAHATI, May 24 There is a new head turner on the Guwahati roads. Small and zippy, the yellow coloured Trygo-X is fast enough to flow along with the traffic on the city streets. But the three-wheeled, two-seater cars USP (unique selling proposition) is its fuel efficiency. The pudding in the cake, of course, is that the car is a home-bred product.
Trygo-X has everything going for it. In these days of spiralling petrol prices, Trygo-X delivers an astounding 40 kilometre per litre of petrol, and even more on highways. Not surprisingly, eminent journalist and litterateur Kanak Sen Deka, president of the Asam Sahitya Sabha, was gushing today after a ride on Trygo-X. It was he who ceremonially flagged off the car during its first public display today.
It is nice to have someone here so innovative, said Deka. Hoping it would start a new tradition in innovation among the local people, he pointed out that the efficiency of transport and communication is a major yardstick of development.
Whenever I went to drop off my daughter to school, I wondered why we cannot have a stylish mini car that could negotiate the Guwahati traffic and also save on fuel, said Kanak Gogoi (44), the man who has conceived and fabricated Trygo-X.
It is this quest that led him to painstakingly design the car that holds a lot of promise. Gogoi, a businessman, spent over a month in the backyard of his Sarumotoria home building his dream carpiece by piece. The car is built on the chassis of an auto rickshaw, with the two back wheels coming to the front and the lone fore wheel going back. It has five gears, including the reverse gear, a drive shaft, right hand steering, removable roof hood and enough power to stay ahead of the pack on the roads. Trygo-X has easy manoeuvrability going for it too.
The car will cost Rs 55,000-60,000 provided we get the tax exemptions said Gogoi. The lone Trygo-X on the road today is only an experimental car. Gogoi has already tested it on the roads and is personally very satisfied. I never though it would be so successful, he admitted after having driven it for the last few days. He now plans to come out with a prototype vehicle before applying to the Pune-based Automotive Research Institution (ARI) for certification of road worthiness. The ARI is the only agency in India that certifies vehicles before commercial scale production commence.
Gogoi is enthused by the fact that a transport department motor vehicle inspector (MVI) has already taken a ride on his vehicle and has expressed satisfaction with its performance. For those who have been keeping track of innovators, Kanak Gogoi should be a familiar name. He has been experimenting with machines for several years now. It is a hobby, said the man who has already created amphibious bicycles and hovercraft.
The first model of Trygo-X weighs a mere 175 kg. We will try to reduce the weight further, said Gogoi. That will mean enhanced fuel efficiency.
AK Das, professor of design at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IIT-G), who was present during the formal flag off of Trygo-X, saw no basic flaws in the cars design though he admitted some modifications might be required, mostly ergonomic. It is for the first time in India that someone has designed a car with two front wheels and one rear wheel.
Of course, city-based North-East Hi-tech Society (NEHS) is willing to go all out to help Gogoi complete all formalities to start commercial production of Trygo-X. We will help in the marketing of the car besides getting the necessary permits, said Hemanta Kumar Bharali, general secretary of the NGO that is otherwise involved in creating knowledge centres across the state in association with the Swaminathan Research Foundation, Bangalore.
I wanted to give the people a fuel efficient but stylish car, said Gogoi. A car at the price and running cost of a motorcycle. What more could you ask for?
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