Funny, Cars Can be Folded

Matador’s company from the country to innovate by developing an electric-powered car, dubbed the folding Hiriko. Hiriko urban itself means in Basque language.

How to fold it? Cars can be folded like the folded stroller. Car chassis will bend like a baby carriage. The car had been exhibited before the European Commission headquarters in Brussels in late January lalu.Mobil is quite small, only 2.5 meters in length, and has no side door. So to get into the passenger cabin, you can step through the front window of a car dashboard.

With a body that is not too large, Hiriko touted as anti-jam and the car parking area and the crisis of environmentally friendly cars, for electrically driven.

As reported by AFP on Friday (02/10/2012) Hiriko using a 4 motor mated to a lithium-ion. 1 electric car 1 moving the wheels independently.

Although small car that can only be menampng 2 passenger mileage is able to reach 120 kilometers on a single full charge the battery. While the maximum speed reached 90 km / am.

Designers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, United States who is also working with technology companies in the Basque country, Spain, said Hiriko was the forerunner of urban car has many advantages.

Some governments had intended to buy the car, including Berlin, Barcelona, San Francisco, Hong Kong. Besides Paris, London, Boston, Dubai and Brussels are also interested.

They say the car is a car manufactured in 2013, and went on sale in Europe with banderolan 12 500 euros.