How a Solar Tricycle Can Start a Small Business: Turning Support into Sustainable Livelihoods
When sunlight meets purpose, it creates power — not just electrical, but social.
That’s the heart of eUdaan’s solar tricycle — a simple innovation redefining what independence means for those who have long been limited by physical or financial barriers.
A single tricycle can change a life. It can turn someone from a dependent into a doer, from a survivor into a small-business owner.
And that’s where you — the changemaker, the giver, the believer — come in.
From Mobility to Livelihood
Mobility isn’t just about moving. For millions across India, it’s about earning, surviving, and belonging.
The solar tricycle bridges that gap and it’s not merely a vehicle; it’s a portable opportunity. With its self-charging panels, maintenance-free batteries, and eco-friendly build, it gives specially-abled individuals the freedom to move and the means to work. Every contribution you make towards one solar tricycle doesn’t just enable travel, it powers a livelihood.
That’s what makes mobility for livelihood one of the most impactful forms of social support today.
A Wheel That Works Like a Workplace
Imagine a tricycle that isn’t just used for movement but for micro-entrepreneurship. It becomes a workplace on wheels, a source of daily income, a tool of empowerment. Here’s how one solar tricycle can unlock multiple small business opportunities:
1. Local Delivery Services
From grocery and parcel delivery to home-made food transport, solar tricycles make perfect eco-friendly last-mile vehicles. With no fuel dependency, the rider keeps more of what they earn.
2. Ice-Cream, Fruit, or Vegetable Vendors
For street vendors, this is transformation on wheels. Instead of renting carts or pushing heavy loads, they can move freely through markets, schools, and neighbourhoods, earning with dignity and ease.
3. Mobile Shops or Craft Carts
Many differently-abled artisans produce handcrafts, toys, or daily-use goods. A solar tricycle gives them visibility and reach so their products can travel where customers are, instead of waiting for customers to come.
4. Micro-Logistics & Services
These tricycles can support community-level businesses like delivering milk, tiffins, medicines, newspapers, or even offering mobile tailoring and repair services.
5. On-Wheels Advertising
Some beneficiaries rent out advertising space on their tricycles by generating an additional revenue stream. What’s mobility for them becomes visibility for brands.
Each of these ventures is small, but together, they form a powerful movement of self-reliance and sustainability.
The Real Return on Giving
When you support one solar tricycle business, you don’t just donate a product, you invest in potential. Your contribution enables:
Zero-fuel entrepreneurship: With solar charging, operational costs drop to almost nothing.
Eco-friendly livelihoods: Clean energy replaces polluting engines.
Sustainable independence: Instead of short-term help, it creates a lasting source of income.
Social upliftment: Families benefit, communities grow stronger, and dignity replaces dependency.
Every tricycle given is a small business created. Every business started is a life rebuilt.
Empowering Through Action
What makes eUdaan different is its focus on sustainable impact. The goal isn’t charity - it’s change. Each solar tricycle distributed through the initiative is not a handout, but a hand-up, a means for the differently-abled to stand on their own, quite literally.
By donating, partnering, or sponsoring, you become part of that ecosystem, one that powers inclusive mobility and enables mobility for livelihood across India. When companies align their CSR initiatives with this mission, or when individuals choose to give purposefully, they don’t just improve mobility, they ignite entire chains of progress.
Join eUdaan in creating mobility with dignity.
Sponsor a solar tricycle, partner through CSR, or simply spread the word — every step counts.