Czech company Katanga has created VM45, a motorized velomobile – a human-powered vehicle that combines elements of a bicycle and an enclosed aerodynamic shell – with four wheels and a body made of milled foam. Polyurethane foam was used for the body, which the design team had to mill into several smaller portions due to its large size. They glued them all together in the end to encase the four-wheeled bicycle, or quad-cycle, that makes up the motorized velomobile VM45
My high school was making these (and solar powered) and competing them over 20 years ago, why is this in a technology sub? Should I post a sundial next?
Post good rock. Good rock smash nut, make get meat out from in shell. Good rock good, bad rock bad. How know good rock? Tell how get good rock.
The tech has changed dramatically since 20 years ago, semis, batteries, motors, controllers etc
https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/applications/light-electric-vehicles/
I can’t quite put my finger on what makes that look so unsafe to me, but I would be really nervous while in it.
It looks unsafe because you know what’s going to be driving next to it. When two things collide, the one with less mass is typically fucked.
It looks like if a truck rushes by it will pull you right in
Yeah, something like this concept that doesn’t look like it’d be crushed by a bus
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I bet these velomobiles would be fun to race on a track. The driving position is very similar to single seater racing.
Who are these for?
Pretty much every European city is banning ICE cars. LEVs Light Electric Vehicles are possible alternatives.
In the Netherlands, They said that they would reconsider LEVs in July. But we still didn’t hear anything about it.
Links from the article:
https://www.velomobiel.nl/quatrevelo/ - €10300Katanga VM45 - guestimated price: 11,000 EUR before VAT for the variant without a motor and around 13,000 EUR before VAT for the motorized version.
Basic physics: each axle adds resistance. There is a 3 wheel ‘tadpole’ design, so I’m wondering what the advantage of 4 wheels would be.
