3 wheel Honda Insight boat tailed EV: Another mystery solved!
It's an Electric Honda Insight with a Lithium pack and 100 mile range! Thats better than bringing back the the EV1. I don't believe there was a dedicated thread to this car. Pulled this from Insight Central.
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Oh ya! I've seen that car each year at the Bay Area Makers Faire (where the video was obviously taken). Another great reason to go; you meet some fascinating and inventive folks there. A couple of my pix of the car:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-E...0/P5220101.JPG and https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-v...0/P5220102.JPG I like that the trailer he brings along can be used to help charge the batteries. |
That is a BMW Paralever single sided swingarm suspension.
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At one point this is what I was going to do with an insight except use my Goldwing rear swingarm. I wonder how much weight he was able to reduce?
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Just a curiosity question, wouldn't it be more efficient to have power sent to one wheel, rather than the front wheels?
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interesting
could use a cover to prevent the rear tire from kicking water/dirt up inside the end of the boattail |
So radical!! Mad inspiration
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With that one, I'd rather worry about structural integrity and re-ingesting exhaust gasses. |
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That's a beautiful creation for sure, aerodynamically.
I'd love to see a drag study on this car. I'm a but curious about the weight distribution. I clicked on the first video link, and from that, it would appear that all of the weight is up front. Where can we find out more info on this one ? I searched "Karmin Projects Insight" in Google and came up with nothing. |
The underside of the tail does need to be closed in to be better aerodynamically. Having it wide open means it could be parachuting.
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Randomly remembered this while attempting to study--studying is going that well!
What would it take to do this while leaving it a gas hybrid? Build a cage for the rear end and do the bottom, with a seal all around, to keep out the exhaust, and probably replace the gas tank. What else? |
To slightly correct the OP, the EV1 had more than 100 miles range; with the second generation batteries.
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is it me or the taper of the tumble home could have been more aggressive (it looks like there is a bit of reflux camber.
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