Rinspeed iChange Prototype
Rinspeed, the Swiss manufacturer of special vehicles such as Splash and Chopster introduce next month at the Geneva Motor Show a prototype called Rinspeed iChange that adapts to the number of passengers is on the inside to minimize consumption when only one person traveling in its.
Some elements of its body move to take an aerodynamic optimum only when the driver is using. If other people climb it (it has up to three places), by the weight and aerodynamics consumption suffers.
The vehicle has no doors, to access their inner need to lift the roof has an area of 1.03 meters long. This ceiling is raised by electric, with a peculiarity in the open: no key, because the functionality it performs an Apple iPhone.
The iPhone also serves as a control for some of the features of the car, such as intermittent and lights, both traffic and emergency.
Its engine is an elective 150 kW, 200 hp, with which the iChange reaches 220 km / h and accelerates from 0 to 100 in just over four seconds. These figures are achieved thanks to its reduced weight, 1,050 kg. Despite being electric, it has a gearbox six marches inherited from a Subaru WRX.