MIT Media lab shows off urban, electric vehicles
MIT’s electric vehicles for urban environments are showcases, including the folding CityCar and the electric bike attachment known as the GreenWheel. By Justin Meisinger
MIT’s electric vehicles for urban environments are showcases, including the folding CityCar and the electric bike attachment known as the GreenWheel. By Justin Meisinger
uh… why not just use the peddles???
Using a motor on your bicycle is “cheating” far less than driving your 200 pound posterior around in a 4,000 pound chuck of metal.
Grow up cycling snobs.
BUEN CONCEPTO
In full production I suspect that the cost of the greenwheel would come down. That is if it is a take off product with a good service reputation. Yes I am interested.
a bike for fat people
Copy of the 1992 french concept car Matra ZOOM….
That is frigging awesome. I’d like to get that greenwheel to.
bella la bicicletta ,quando la vedremo in giro?
simplemente genialll!!!
a bike without it really being a bike awsome
I like the bike, but the folding car would be more amazing and much more economical if it did not fold. So much tech when you could just make them 2/3 the size and fit 3 of them in a spot. There has been a lot made of this project and I am into it, but I feel like people only care that it’s from MIT and it has lots of wow factor. It could have already been on the road if they didn’t make it fold, but who would care about a normal, small electric car?
When will we see these on the road? So many great ideas like these that have real life use dates set out in 2025 or 2050. Get these on the roads already
MIT students are idiots…
Whoops I mean built into the motors, not batteries… :~)
The one thing that would have to be built into these vehicles and into the batteries on the bikes too is a GPS tracking system because people will try to steal them. I think the technology is here to do that and it shouldn’t cost that much either. Perhaps people could rent the bikes too which would be an even better alternative and you could activate these things using a key and code or something.
i gotta say, i used to laugh at stuff like this, but these guys seem to doing some great thinking, mabey onto something here…
Car seems pretty cool, but doesn’t appear safe at all, not with all these huge 4×4′s rolling around ready to just flatten that thing like a bug
cool idea tho. It’s probablies an idea that might catch on in the ”far” future.
As for the bike? not a fan. so, that pretty much makes pedals useless, doesnt it? haha
car is cool, but what about safety
That car idea, was all ready introduced by a Japanese car company. It’s a gret idea, for city life style. Really big cars, aren’t really convinent in the city for the driver or public. Cities continue to become more populated, and smaller cars are the best way to deal with this.
I think the only way the car will catch on is if most people drive them because people don’t like the safety hazard they can be when driving with cars twice or three times their size next to them.
The bike attachment sounds nice, but is way too expensive to become popular.
when robots revult those are gonna be leaders
MIT place an alternator in the front hub of the bike to assist charging the battery. Little bug car is a cool concept