News on Gordon Murray's T.27. I'm skeptical of most new car designs, but this guy is one of the real gods of automotive design and the prototypes have crashed well ... He doesn't intend to manufacture them, but rather license the design and an interesting manufacturing process.
If gasoline becomes very expensive the gas version (T.25) of this might make an interesting daily car. The electric version (T.27) only needs a 12kWh battery pack and in large quantities might be reasonably priced. They need very little parking space. Once could imagine urban areas repurposing parking spots as 2-3 microcars or 12 bicycles per conventional spot. There is a huge amount of energy and space inefficiency in our current system.
It is possible - perhaps likely - that it will not see use in the US, but it might point the way to the evolution of the emerging megacity car
Comments