Thursday, 1 November 2012

Electric Amphibious Vehicle

Photo: This is an electric amphibious vehicle and it was designed by David Cardoso Loureiro for the Michelin Challenge Design competition. This three-wheeler concept can hold only one person. Two electric motors power each rear wheel independently on water and while driving on land. As we all have seen, many car tires look like propellers. Well, here is what exactly they are – on land they’re wheels, but when the vehicle get into the water, they change their direction perpendicularly and turn into propellers which is the source of propulsion in water. The exact details, like power, batteries life duration, type of steering system in water, were not mentioned. So we can enjoy the imagination of the designer only. But this is a virtually created conceptual vehicle and probably even David Loureiro doesn’t know these details.

This is an electric amphibious vehicle and it was designed by David Cardoso Loureiro for the Michelin Challenge Design competition. This three-wheeler concept can hold only one person. Two electric motors power each rear wheel independently
on water and while driving on land. As we all have seen, many car tires look like propellers. Well, here is what exactly they are – on land they’re wheels, but when the vehicle get into the water, they change their direction perpendicularly and turn into propellers which is the source of propulsion in water. The exact details, like power, batteries life duration, type of steering system in water, were not mentioned. So we can enjoy the imagination of the designer only. But this is a virtually created conceptual vehicle and probably even David Loureiro doesn’t know these details.

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