Electric Folding Car

Electric Folding Car :

    Looking for a parking space for hours for parking your car at a busy shopping mall or being stuck on roads jammed with cars releasing large amounts of carbon dioxide are all-too-familiar scenes for city dwellers.
    A team of researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have designed an electric vehicle that is called "Compact Car" to the next level to solve such problems: a foldable, compact electric vehicle that can be utilized either as a personal car or part of the public transit system to connect major transportation routes within in a city. It is also called 'Hiriko' or 'Armadillo-T'.
    

The cool thing about it is that it will fold in half at the tap of a synchronized smartphone.
The Hiriko Car is a folding, two-seat, all-electric microcar designed to be used for transportation. The microcar is powered by a lithium-ion battery pack that allows arange of 120 Km(75 mi). The drive motors are located each of the four wheels, and has an electronically controlled maximum speed of 60 km/h and the charge only takes 10 minutes for 100% battery life.
     The Armadillo-T features four electric motors-One at each wheel. Each motor receives power from a front-mounted lithium-ion battery pack that can be charged in ten minutes for 62-mile range. It weighs only 992 pounds..
  

The car is able to carry two passengers and is capable of travelling up to 75 miles between charges. The vehicle would also be equipped with zero-turn radius wheels that allow it to move sideways.
Moreover, Smartphone-interfaced remote control of the wheels enables the vehicle to be turned through 360 degrees, easy parking into awkward spaces and it has number of smart features including strategically place cameras to avoid the need for side mirrors and reduce blind sports. With a smartphone, the driver can control Armadillo-T and enable remote folding control.
    The production version of the Hiriko fold is scheduled to be unveiled in March 2013 at the Geneva Motor Show, and production is planned for the second quarter of 2013. Retail deliveries are scheduled begin in 2014, and pricing starts at US $16,400 plus battery leasing fees.