Honda Reveals 3R-C Electric Three-Wheeler

Electric Car News | | February 24, 2010 at 7:12 am

Honda 3R C Honda Reveals 3R C Electric Three WheelerHonda has revealed the 3R-C three-wheel electric concept car, which will make its debut at Geneva Motor Show next week.

The 3-RC electric three-wheeler shows what a future minimal urban transport vehicle for one person might look like, Honda said. The battery electric drivetrain is mounted low in the three wheeled chassis, therefore keeping the centre of gravity low and thus improving stability.

The 3R-C has a clear canopy that covers the driver’s seat while it is parked and not in use. When 3R-C vehicle is in motion, the canopy becomes an enveloping wind-shield that provides the pilot, who sits low in the vehicle, with significant protection from the bodywork and doors.

The high sides of the safety shell seat give greater safety to the occupant, reducing the threat from side impacts and improving weather protection. In front of the driver is a lockable boot area, which gives significant secure storage for luggage or other items. The 3R-C’s designers created a flexible cover that surrounds the upper torso to reduce exposure to bad weather and improving comfort.

The 3R-C study was created by European designers working at Honda’s Research and Design facility in Milan.

Also on display will be the EV-N concept, previously shown at the Tokyo Motor Show.

The EV-N shows the potential application of battery technology in a small, stylish city car.

A design study that evokes the spirit of the diminutive 1967 N360 city car, the EV-N features Honda’s own solar panels in the roof, which could charge the car while it is parked. Two of Honda’s U3-X, electric personal mobility devices are attached to the inside of each door. The two-door EV-N concept is envisioned with a Lithium ion battery pack, and small electric motor for predominantly urban use.

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  • UncleB

    In combination with the nuclear/electric power plants on the design boards right now, and in combination with the electric bullet train networks the U.S. government is seeding, starting in Florida, this Honda venture fits right in as a short haul vehicle to get to and from home after a n electric bullet train moves your ass to and fron factory doors, and what remains is the shorter distance to your domicile. America faces monumental and convulsive paradigm shifts here at the end of the “Sweet crude oil era” and competition for the finite world oil reserves with the burgeoning Asian factor and a very strong Yuan to bid against for every drop of crude available will drive oil prices to astronmical peaks and make the driving of gasoline cars a thing of the past, on America or anywhere in the world. We face western civilizations total conversion from liquid fuels to Nuclear Electric Energies over the next few decades. This is a process in progress, and even China and Europe, supposedly American inferiors have already developed and have up and running, nuclear/electric powered electric bullet train networks serving their people. America lags behind! Lolly-gaging, and dreaming that ie won't happen as the price of oil soars and they try to absorb it with mediocre production at best, workers choked by higher gasoline prices than ever! This will change abruptly as world economic realities catch up to the dreamers with stiff price penalties. The suburbs lifestyle in the U,S. will be foreclosed and great apartment complexes built on bullet tarin lines to factories and in factory cafeterias, dormitories, bunks, and accommodations as China has now will become common-place through-out America. The need for the gasoline motorcar will be thus eradicated, and this fine example of battery powered vehicle will become popular for all! For witness to the complete failure of the “American Dream” as was prevalent in the 20th century look up the destruction of Detriot City , and realize better planning is possible, probable and good American government will not let this monument to failed Corporatism repeat itself! We will go three wheeled, electric into a brighter 21st century with Honda planning the way to and oil free adventure.

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