X Ray Frankenstein wants to keep Halloween going all year

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Green Culture

Jesse Field wants your input. The designer of the Xrayfrankenstein, a “revolutionary high-tech ultra-light 3-wheel EV” wrote in to say that the website for the snub-nosed trike is now up and running and ready for critics to take a look. Field wrote:

This vehicle was develop by (myself) a former big 3 automotive engineer, and is completely unique from anything else being proposed out there. The web site contains lots of product info because the vehicle is very unique — including features such as a pressure absorbing impact body shell. [...] I am eagerly looking for feedback and insight as well as exposure–the website is brand new.

The basic idea for the Xrayfrankenstein is that the technology to make more efficient vehicles exists, but it really needs to be mashed together - like Frankenstein’s monster - in the most efficient vehicle possible. Currently, the trike only exists in rough renderings on the site, but the concept is a superlight, four-person vehicle. The Xrayfrankenstein can handle a variety of powertrains but is designed to be all-electric. Aside from the mashed-up quality of the vehicle, Field says that this car is well-named because of its attitude:

No mechanismo is hidden, just as bolts sticking out of its neck, or stitches in flesh, motors and attachments become an integral part of its character. And yet it is a monster with a human side, as opposed to today’s unholy steel exoskeleton insect-bodies. The Xray is an endoskeleton structure, with an impact absorbing shell, making it less susceptible to dings and scratches, and unsightly, undesired incidental damage.

Thought?

[Source: X Ray Frankenstein]

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