Alliance Finance Now Lends for Tuk-Tuk-to-EV Conversions — Would You Take the Loan?

LeMS's 'e-wheel' conversion swaps a petrol three-wheeler's engine for an electric motor in about two hours, priced at roughly Rs 450,000. The company says running cost drops from over Rs 20 a kilometre on petrol to under Rs 15 on electric, and you don't even buy a battery — it's swapped and billed pay-as-you-go. This month Alliance Finance signed on with LeMS to make financing these conversions easier, instead of owners saving up or taking a full loan for a brand-new EV three-wheeler. For owners already stretched by 60% down payments on new tuk-tuks, converting the one they already own and keeping the route and fares they're used to could be the cheaper road to electric. Others will ask whether a retrofitted motor holds up to daily Colombo traffic and hills the way a factory-built EV would, and whether resale value survives a conversion stamp on the RC book. Would you convert your own tuk-tuk, or hold out for a proper factory EV? If you've already converted one, what has the real cost and mileage actually been? ඔබේ ත්‍රිරෝදය විදුලියට හරවනවාද, නැත්නම් මුල සිටම විදුලි ත්‍රිරෝදයක් ගන්නවාද?