The New Urban Car Problem Solver?
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120613-folding-cars-offer-city-solution
Today we all want to go by car to work, to shop or to even bring our children to school. We commute alot and therfore the space to park and drive becomes less. Now there is an new car that should get commuters out of their car. The VE. This is a car espessially designed to fit the life of a commuter. This car weighs less that 500kg and in some countries you would not even need a licence to drive it.
this car is very small. It wheels can rotate 60% so side parking is like childsplay. When you get out of the car, at the front, the car will fold itself so you can put three and a half VE on one parking place.
The car is not designed for the highway. It can only drive up to 50km per hour and a distance of 75km. Recharcing would only cost 15 minutes. There is no steering wheel but a yoke. To drive you puch the yoke forwards, to break backwards and to go to the left you push left vice versa.
The goal is to use the cars just like bikke-sharing systems. Now it should be a car sharing system where you can lend a car ot go to work with.
I would love to have a car like that if I should work in the city center. I would ride my bike to the nearest charching post and drive to work. Or when I needed to go to buy myself a new outfit. Drive in my mini-mini car to the shops park where I want and no problems parking. How wonderfull would that be!!!
I am concerned about the nature too ofcourse and this would be a great oppertunity to reduse gas emissions also. Less CO2 producing cars, healtier air to breath who would not want this. The oil industry perhaps...well if we go on like this there will not be anything left in a couple of years. I would realy use this future car to commute. I believe it is a step forward to a better and healtier world for all of us.
his car is great. I would really like to posess a car like his because I do not have a drivers licence. On the other hand it is better for my fysical condition when I keep riding my bike. but on a rainy day a folding car would be perfect for short distances, like driving to the city.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenAw what a cute car! Environmentally correct and fun to drive. The only aspect I seem to miss in the article is the price.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenI have learned that producing these kinds of cars actually is a bigger strain on the environment than manufacturing a "normal" car.