Where do you put the groceries and how is it in snow?
“Where do you put the groceries and how is it in snow?”
Where do you put groceries on a bicycle ,motorcycle or tuk tuk? That’s the mode of transportation these are intended to replace, and the single person in a sedan or suv crossover in a dense urban core of a city. Think Central London like the article said they were specificity designed for or midtown Manhattan. Same for downtown and uptown New Orleans or the Federal district in DC. 25 mph speed limits in every one of those. Two have $20+ per trip entry congestion charges. Parking in NYC or Central London is $75+ per parking no in and out. The article said there is a boot in the back for cargo how much groceries does a single person need from the bodega a mile or two away in Brooklyn or the package shope on the corner of every street in London? These are not for suburbs, not for highways,not for family grocery getter runs. They are for bumper to bumper gridlock in 5 mph urban cores with a single person who would have walked, rode a ebike or escooter, summoned an uber or cab. The whole point is in those dense urban cores you can fit FOUR of these in the footprint of a xover or SUV which has no business being in that urban core in the first place. You can nose in park four to a meter spot and they would as quad CYCLES be allowed to use dedicated bike lanes which NYC and London are full of totally separated from other traffic and photo enforced with a hefty fine for any other vehicle in them. It’s like people can’t process the idea that most of the world’s population lives in high density cities and that number is growing every day. You cannot build enough roads the transportation density must increase. Be that busses, subways, two wheelers like all of Asia today. Tuk tuks again like all of Asia. Quads allow for fully enclosed transport with heat or A.C. At one forth the size of a sedan or SUV. London’s congestion charges are very effective and NYC’s will be as well. What used to take 3 to 4 hours in London is now down to 1.5 and the tariffs go up the more traffic it gets. These are not intended at all for suburbs or flyover country they will never see a motorway as they are not licenced to be on them in the EU , Asia or here they would be a LSV federally limited to roads of 30mph or less speed limits or in some states 25mph or less. So no they would never meet a pickup truck speeding down the motorway. In downtown Manhattan you are lucky to average 5mph anywhere on that island from 5 am till 10 pm.