Toyota i-ROAD: fashionable electric tricycle for sharing

Posted on 02-10-2014 at 8:57 by sir_smokalot – 8 Comments”

Two years after the first concept does Toyota now his vision of the future for stadsmobiliteit in productietrim from the cloth: the i-Road, an electric hipsterfiets to communist principle property of everyone. Sort of.

Although Toyota mordicus against the electric car is, and remains, is this philosophy not for vehicles with less than 4 wheels. The all-electric i-Road concept is developed further to the above-mentioned pink dangeresque, that since yesterday, 35 copies strong, around, drive in a car sharing project in Grenoble. Or actually we should say: ‘tricycle sharing project’.

50 km range

In each of the narrow voorwieltjes is a 1.9 kW electric motor built, powered by a lithium-ion battery. Fully charge this power pack the rider with a controlled foot to about 50 kilometers far. The rent of this lean-mobile goes via a smartphone app.

A major advantage of the i-Road is that you thanks to a small roof nice and dry. This omkapseling is directly a disadvantage, for the case of your immediate predecessor, and has a pungent body odour spreads, on a bonendieet lives, or with kleefhandjes at the wheel sat.

Toyota presents i-Road as a complement to the public transport network, for people who, for example, the last part of the trip is not by bus or cannot do. The idea is to us, but we are curious as to how in practice this turns out under the car swingers.

Gallery: Toyota i-Road 2014

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