Transport Innovation

What is it?


I saw this inward the parking lot of the hotel where I'm staying. Inspection: yes, it's the chassis of an early on 1970s VW, alongside motor together with transmission inward place. The motor appears functional. It's connected to the gas cans. Yet, this is a trailer. Why? (Hint: it's parked side past times side to a novel Toyota CRV electrical car.)

Answer: The possessor has a prissy novel Toyota CRV electric. He extolled the virtues of the electric, its greenness, together with the taxation breaks together with gratuitous charging options. But, it solely has a 120 mile range, together with sometimes he needs to elbow grease longer distances on the freeway. This is Utah, later all.

So... the VW trailer. When inward need, he puts the trailer inward quaternary gear, together with turns on its electrical system. The confine is stuck sum open. He pulls it to larn going put, lay put put... Then, the trailer pushes the auto along. What if he needs to dull down? No problem, he hits the regenerative brakes on the Toyota, together with then straightaway the VW is equally good charging upwards his batteries!

American ingenuity is nonetheless alive!

I did non enquire if the highway patrol was aware of simply how the trailer functions. Or the DOT, EPA, NHTSA, etc. etc.


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