Hiriko Electric Car

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Hiriko electric car.

A full sized prototype of the hiriko basque for urban folding electric car. Hiriko s hi tech on board computers will mean that all the cars are instantly located by a smart phone so they can be left anywhere and the electric batteries mean they have zero emissions. As the new york times reports the hiriko is designed for short distance car sharing schemes allowing people to cover those first and last miles using clean electric power. One of the simplest characteristics of the new hiriko folding electric car is that it s improbably simple to park in little areas with the technology to suit in one third of a automobile parking space when being folded up.

Hiriko folding electric car. The hiriko is designed for inner city car sharing schemes initially in europe but also touted for some u s. The name hiriko comes from the basque word for urban or from the city. Enlarge this image outside of the abandoned headquarters of epsilon euskadi one of the companies tasked with building the hiriko car in spain.

The whereabouts of the hiriko car remain a mystery. Hiriko electric car folds up to take one third of a parking spot pilot program to begin next year. The electric car was to be the commercial implementation of the citycar project developed by the massachusetts institute of technology media lab since 2003. The hiriko is an electric car that folds up to reduce in length from 100 down to a mere 60 inches the width of an ordinary car 22 29 the hiriko is 100 inches 2 5 m in length but only 60.