2013: Half! Lightweight with Passion.
Biography
Thierry Dumaine, 53, lives in Nice, France and is an art teacher for children. He practices design and graphics as a hobby as well as building special bicycles.
Description
It is a minimalist car – no door, no built-in dashboard, no hard roof, only one color, cheap materials for a minimalist price and weight. Full hybrid car with gasoline, compressed air and electrical energy – wheels can recover energy from the wind.
Lightweight :
- recycled cardboard for the body
- recycled plastic for the chassis
- no hard roof and no door for you to be close to the environment
- no built-in dashboard, but you use your iPad to manage car-D-board
- narrow airless tires
- bubble rim (air is trapped in lot of bubbles)
- an engine limited to 400 cm3 accepts gas and air
- maximum speed of 120 kms/h and weighing less than 300 kg
Energy:
- wind is an important energy in the world
- future gas station will be built around wind turbines
- the same engine can also use gasoline in case you haven’t enough compressed air and low battery.
- an independent propeller is inside each wheel to create an additional source of electricity generation
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