Hiriko: Car of the Future?
Are we going to see the car of the future? It’s very small, economical, folds up like a stroller, and cheap! Cool!
Car of the Future: It’s Cute, Five Feet Long, Gets 75 Miles Per Charge, Folds Up Like a Stroller and Only Costs $16,000
By The Daily Sheeple, 30 January 2012.
By The Daily Sheeple, 30 January 2012.
Developed at MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] and manufactured in Europe, the new Hiriko, promises to change how Europeans drive, spend energy and park…
A tiny revolutionary fold-up car designed in Spain’s Basque country as the answer to urban stress and pollution was unveiled Tuesday before hitting European cities in 2013.
The “Hiriko,” the Basque word for “urban,” is an electric two-seater with no doors whose motor is located in the wheels and which folds up like a child’s collapsible buggy, or stroller, for easy parking.
Dreamt up by Boston’s MIT-Media lab, the concept was developed by a consortium of seven small Basque firms under the name Hiriko Driving Mobility, with a prototype unveiled by European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso.
Demonstrating for journalists, Barroso clambered in through the fold-up front windscreen of the 1.5-metre-long car.
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Its makers are in talks with a number of European cities to assemble the tiny cars that can run 120 kilometers (75 miles) without a recharge and whose speed is electronically set to respect city limits.
They envision it as a city-owned vehicle, up for hire like the fleets of bicycles available in many European cities, or put up for sale privately at around 12,500 euros.
Source: AFP
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