Hiriko Electric Car

Enlarge this image outside of the abandoned headquarters of epsilon euskadi one of the companies tasked with building the hiriko car in spain.

Hiriko electric car.

Hiriko folding electric car. The whereabouts of the hiriko car remain a mystery. The hiriko is a folding two seat urban electric car that was under development by the hiriko driving mobility consortium in the basque country of northern spain. It provides an.

One of the simplest characteristics of the new hiriko folding electric car is that it s improbably simple to park in little areas with the technology to suit in one third of a automobile parking space when being folded up. The smart sized electric vehicle can effectively fold. And it has a party piece. The hiriko is an electric car that folds up to reduce in length from 100 down to a mere 60 inches the width of an ordinary car 22 29 the hiriko is 100 inches 2 5 m in length but only 60.

As the new york times reports the hiriko is designed for short distance car sharing schemes allowing people to cover those first and last miles using clean electric power. The electric car was to be the commercial implementation of the citycar project developed by the massachusetts institute of technology media lab since 2003. Hiriko s hi tech on board computers will mean that all the cars are instantly located by a smart phone so they can be left anywhere and the electric batteries mean they have zero emissions. Hiriko electric car folds up to take one third of a parking spot pilot program to begin next year.