Vietnam Pushes Electric Motorbikes As Pollution Becomes 'Unbearable'

Hanoi authorities say more than two thirds of the poisonous smog that blankets Vietnam's capital is caused by petrol vehicles, and officials have ordered that a quarter of two-wheelers across the country must be electric by 2030 (Credit: AFP)

In Vietnam's heavily polluted capital Hanoi, teenage taxi driver Phung Khac Trung rides his electric motorbike through streets jammed with two-wheelers belching toxic fumes.

Trung, 19, is one of a growing number of Generation-Z workers driving an e-bike trend in the communist nation where 77 million -- largely petrol -- motorbikes rule the roads.