MVRacing
11-03-2009, 07:27 PM
X Ray Frankenstein wants to keep Halloween going all year (http://green.autoblog.com/2009/11/03/x-ray-frankenstein-wants-to-keep-halloween-going-all-year/)
by Sebastian Blanco (http://green.autoblog.com/bloggers/sebastian-blanco/) (RSS feed (http://green.autoblog.com/bloggers/sebastian-blanco/rss.xml)) on Nov 3rd, 2009 at 7:49PM
http://www.blogcdn.com/green.autoblog.com/media/2009/11/screen-shot-2009-11-03-at-4.28.58-pm.png (http://xrayfrankenstein.com/index.html)
Jesse Field wants your input. The designer of the Xrayfrankenstein (http://xrayfrankenstein.com/index.html), a "revolutionary high-tech ultra-light 3-wheel EV" wrote in to say that the website for the snub-nosed trike is now up and running and ready for critics to take a look. Field wrote:
This vehicle was develop by (myself) a former big 3 automotive engineer, and is completely unique from anything else being proposed out there. The web site contains lots of product info because the vehicle is very unique -- including features such as a pressure absorbing impact body shell. [...] I am eagerly looking for feedback and insight as well as exposure--the website is brand new.
The basic idea for the Xrayfrankenstein is that the technology to make more efficient vehicles exists, but it really needs to be mashed together – like Frankenstein's monster – in the most efficient vehicle possible. Currently, the trike only exists in rough renderings on the site, but the concept is a superlight, four-person vehicle. The Xrayfrankenstein can handle a variety of powertrains but is designed to be all-electric. Aside from the mashed-up quality of the vehicle, Field says that this car is well-named because of its attitude:
No mechanismo is hidden, just as bolts sticking out of its neck, or stitches in flesh, motors and attachments become an integral part of its character. And yet it is a monster with a human side, as opposed to today's unholy steel exoskeleton insect-bodies. The Xray is an endoskeleton structure, with an impact absorbing shell, making it less susceptible to dings and scratches, and unsightly, undesired incidental damage.
by Sebastian Blanco (http://green.autoblog.com/bloggers/sebastian-blanco/) (RSS feed (http://green.autoblog.com/bloggers/sebastian-blanco/rss.xml)) on Nov 3rd, 2009 at 7:49PM
http://www.blogcdn.com/green.autoblog.com/media/2009/11/screen-shot-2009-11-03-at-4.28.58-pm.png (http://xrayfrankenstein.com/index.html)
Jesse Field wants your input. The designer of the Xrayfrankenstein (http://xrayfrankenstein.com/index.html), a "revolutionary high-tech ultra-light 3-wheel EV" wrote in to say that the website for the snub-nosed trike is now up and running and ready for critics to take a look. Field wrote:
This vehicle was develop by (myself) a former big 3 automotive engineer, and is completely unique from anything else being proposed out there. The web site contains lots of product info because the vehicle is very unique -- including features such as a pressure absorbing impact body shell. [...] I am eagerly looking for feedback and insight as well as exposure--the website is brand new.
The basic idea for the Xrayfrankenstein is that the technology to make more efficient vehicles exists, but it really needs to be mashed together – like Frankenstein's monster – in the most efficient vehicle possible. Currently, the trike only exists in rough renderings on the site, but the concept is a superlight, four-person vehicle. The Xrayfrankenstein can handle a variety of powertrains but is designed to be all-electric. Aside from the mashed-up quality of the vehicle, Field says that this car is well-named because of its attitude:
No mechanismo is hidden, just as bolts sticking out of its neck, or stitches in flesh, motors and attachments become an integral part of its character. And yet it is a monster with a human side, as opposed to today's unholy steel exoskeleton insect-bodies. The Xray is an endoskeleton structure, with an impact absorbing shell, making it less susceptible to dings and scratches, and unsightly, undesired incidental damage.