GOING GREENER turn Hybrid ;-)

Yesterday morning, after placing the solar panel up to the roof with my cousin Raka Cahyadi, and we had a chat and brain storming... around 11 o'clock I come up with the HYBRID motor idea.
"We need a third way solution..." the gray in the 'poleng sudamala' ;-)

FYI: Poleng is black and white tiled squares/checkboard design symbolizing duality. Usually used to dress statues in Bali. Considered sacred.. The Poleng Sudamala is the black-grey-white design of woven fabric. the gray is the mix of black and white threads> symbolizing Human, the mix of God's and Bhutakala characters.. something between two extremes..

the idea is to encourage more peoples could involve in going greener lifestyle.
Motorbikes are in tremendous incline recently in Bali.
You may know that in year 1904 were only 2 push-bikes in Singaraja, north Bali. Currently more than 2 millions motor bikes flocking on this tiny island...

Only peoples with a good environmental-awareness will had stronger reason to choose electric motorbike for their daily transportation mode.. the rest are mainly decided to use what they 'want' because they can buy it or they can use financing scheme to get one. Mainly they choose the one with new design, run faster... as the commercials told them...

The electric bike, even thou it can be bought thru credit scheme, its sales recently only reached about 700 units.. far under the regular ones..

To promote the Less Carbon Lifestyle, then I think we need to do something 'in between' with an effective result and efficient budget.

I think about to make a kit to turn an existing regular motorbike into an hybrid motor.
It runs in electric mode for flat and smooth road.. and still can use its regular engine on harder situation.. Can you imagine how 'low' it can goes?? if a city roads are mostly flat, it will runs silently like the electric bike use to be.. hence, at the traffic light area where usually engines run in idle -which produce higher pollutant- the hybrid bike will just silent ;-) no emission at all..

Will post you the progress of my experiments.
Hope to ride it soon on the streets of Bali ;-)


Peace in greener world,
(((a)))