After my last article on ‘green’ cars for rich people I came across this article on ‘green’ vehicles that the inventor hopes will become a machine for the people.
I was looking at it and thinking that it looks really dangerous. It looks the sort of vehicle that if it was involved in an accident with a kid on a scooter it would come off worse. It’s low and awkward and I would suspect easily missed by traffic especially vans and trucks and buses never mind ordinary road traffic. Like a pedal bike not the way to go on our roads but by the looks of things that is what is being developed. It’s not a family vehicle but one intended for commuters. Although if you read the article it is all about road safety but how safe this could be after being run over by an 18 wheeler is something I don’t want to contemplate.
It seems that this then could be the vehicle I was calling for. The vehicle for the plebs. Something small, cheap and can go a million mileson an AAA battery. Just like the toy it is.
Where is my car of the future? A car similar to a small executive car about the size of an Audi A4 or an old Mondeo class. Electric powered and one we are used to seeing. One we are already geared up to see on the road. One that can carry a normal family and one that can be upgraded to exceed our current safety standards as well as it’s fuel efficiency and, if needs must, it’s green capabilities.
If this is the sort of car being pushed then I forsee a good market for second hand cars and another bail out for the car industry being required. I think I need to ‘invest’ in a couple of second hand cars now while they are affordable.
I had to double check that we are in December and not the first of April. This is a joke boosted by the green agenda.
I don’t know if you have been following the electric car saga in the Register but most of the ‘people’ cars are like this and are deservedly torn apart in the comments sections.
The idea that a family needs at least two cars – at least one for going to work and a much larger one so they can all go shopping together – is just stupid. What is wrong with just improving the power plant of normal cars?
That’s one of the reasons I didn’t lie the recliner bike – you’re not visible any more.
Ivan,
In total agreement. If left to it car manufacturers would come up with it but as most now have a state with an interest they won’t be.
James,
At least it removed the whingy whiney greenies from the population.