[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]La tecnologia del motore elettrico offre possibilità prima inimmaginabili: miniaturizzazione delle unità motrici, abbassamento del baricentro, ripartizione elettronica continua della trazione, maggiore affidabilità. E da oggi anche inaudita flessibilità.
French company Mecanroc launches a vehicle destined to revolutionise not only the off-road sector, but automotive design tout court. They called it Swincar E-Spider and looking at it, the inspiration from which it gets its name is obvious. At 1.3 metres long and wide, it weighs 150 kg and can reach a speed of 40 km/h thanks to the thrust of four electric motors located in the wheel hubs. Each unit delivers a power of 1 kW. Autonomy is guaranteed by the 6 kwh batteries and should range from a minimum of 90 to a maximum of 180 minutes, depending on the routes taken.
But so far so normal. One enters the realm of the exceptional Watching this vehicle move on highly uneven tracks and noticing its innovative chassis. Constructed from aluminium tubes, it has the only fixed point is the central cellwhere the rider is positioned and where the batteries are placed. The wheels and arms (or forks, if we want to use motorbike parlance) are completely independent and are able to accommodate any roughness in the terrain while leaving the cockpit cell always on axis. The result, from a dynamic point of view, is stunning: the Swincar can overcome slopes of 70% on the longitudinal axis and 50% on the transverse axis. No existing off-road vehicle can achieve this performance.
The Swincar E-Spider is a single-seater, but a two-seater version will soon be produced, and it has already received many pre-orders, especially from the USA. The vehicle lends itself very well to the off-road fun, but also to more utilitarian usee.g. as a means of locomotion for the disabled, for agriculture and transport in very rough terrain, or for police or army intervention in difficult terrain.
The Swincar from a car design perspective
What used to be the one fixed point of every designer, the chassis, has become mobile. Structures designed to offer maximum solidity and torsional rigidity become flexible. Unexplored territory opens up for car designers, with deformable cars that will adapt in real time to lateral thrusts and offer maximum road holding in a dynamic manner, obviously with the help of independent four-wheel drive and advanced on-board computers. We are in the neighbourhood of auto transformerto understand.
The future of the automotive industry looks decidedly fun.
Sources: Ibtimes.co.uk[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_button dimension=”outline” corner_style=”full_rounded” size=”medium” icon=”mk-icon-home” url=”/” align=”center” margin_top=”30″ margin_bottom=”0″ margin_right=”0″]Torna alla Home[/mk_button][/vc_column][/vc_row]
