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This Tunisian electric car is powered by the sun

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STORY: This three-wheeled electric car is powered by the sun

Tunisian engineer Boubaker Siala is the founder and CEO

of Tunisian-German startup Bako Motors

(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) FOUNDER AND CEO OF GERMAN-TUNISIAN STARTUP BAKO MOTORS, BOUBAKER SIALA, SAYING:

“We, the people of the globe, have become fed-up with the smoke coming out of cars, so this car gives an opportunity to live in a clean and healthy environment using sustainable and renewable energy, which is solar energy.”

Siala says the low-cost car can run 11,000 miles per year

just by harnessing power from the sun