Posted 09.24.2009 at 12:45 pm
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Myers Motors Unveils New Electric Three Wheeler Ohio-based Myers Motors unveiled its second electric vehicle -- tentatively titled NMG2 (no more gas, two seats). The company says the three-wheeler, which will go on sale in late 2010, will top out at 75 mph and travel 60 miles on a charge.
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Electric-vehicle startup Myers Motors already builds a one-seat electric car with three wheels. Now, the company says a new model is on the way with something extra novel -- a passenger seat. Dubbed the NMG2 (the first model is called NMG), the part-car-part-motorcycle will also get more storage space, creature comforts like air conditioning and a 60-mile range on a charge of its lithium-ion battery. (An optional battery pack, the company says, will extend the range to 100 miles).
Essentially a commuter vehicle, the NMG2 will top out at 75 mph and sell for under $30,000, the current price of the one-seater. The Ohio-based company says it hopes to build and sell up to 10,000 of the vehicles over the next several years.
[via Earth2Tech]
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How about "The Ugly Larvae"? Why is it that every time someone designs the next electric car, it's gotta look ridiculous, ugly and mostly impractical? I mean, is there a code of the electric car design out there that specifically states "make it small and ugly so nobody will buy it except artists and the really, really left winged hippies?" I mean c'mon. I'm all about cleaner energy but I'm not buying that thing!
...maybe this is exactly what the gas companies want! - for the conspiracy theorists out there.
For a name ... how 'bout "Fugly"
How about the cheese wedge because that's what it looks like to me.
Ohhh Ohhh the "meh"
For a name how about "Triyacht"
tri for these three wheels, yacht for the clean electric energy like the yacht sails by using the wind.
from Los Angeles, CA
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder! I have no problem at all with the car's aesthetics... it's clean, tidy, with crisp lines, and I like the color... so those of you that are criticizing it so harshly are impossible to please-- there is no way for you to define a vehicle that would make you happy unless you're simply against anything with three wheels. Many of today's designers are using a 3-wheel form for very practical reasons: the process to have the vehicle accepted by the bureaucracy is much simpler and cheaper than that for a car with 4 wheels.
I agree with Ruri that it resembles a wedge of Wisconsin, but I believe there is already a vehicle called the Wedge-- and I do like Damonboy's suggestion, Triyacht.
How about Peregrine? It's teardrop body shape is similar to the Peregrine falcon's infamous 200 mph diving tactic. The term is not just synonymous with the car's shape but the forward thinking Myers Motors.
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I would call it the "Mallard"
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