Friday, March 25, 2011

CityCar From MIT by 2013

"Ryan Chin, a research specialist in the Smart Cities group of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told New Scientist at the MIT Energy Conference last week that in the last four years, "We've developed almost all of the core elements [for the car], including the folding mechanism, the wheel motors, and the control system for the vehicle."

He went on to explain that battery technology has improved, so the car can drive greater distances and is lighter. Electric motors have also become lighter, faster, cheaper, and more powerful, because the demand for them is greater."


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