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  • What range does it have? More companies should get into this market! Who wouldn't buy a $7000 50mph 30mile EV if their commute is short enough?

    Renault Twizy ( zUJPp7pkzFM ) looks like an awesome design, but still costs too much: $9k + $65/MONTH for battery lease.

    I mean, batteries are $1000/kwh (and getting cheaper)! So where's my $7000 30-mile range Twizy!? (Those with longer commutes could pay for optional bigger batteries, and the smaller battery allows a killer low price point.)

  • He has now built a trailer to tow his girlfriend.

  • Perfect

    

  • I think he is a genius.

  • @Eugene9077 He's not a genius, he's a smart person who has resources at his disposal.

  • Cool! How 'bout a ride?

  • tell you why car companys "arent coming out with" this crap, no one want to recharge there dam car all night to use it for 2 hrs...they tried over and over...if u really wanna go green...look into steam...but requires lots of maintenance and prep

  • @Moparfan63 ...and it needs a considerable heat source :P where would you get that from, a burning fuel? so much for going green, and electric heat would still require batteries that would need charging, good idea but not thought all the way through.

  • @skyhawk551 where do you think electricity comes from? a magical fairy who blows on power lines to energise them?

    95% or more of the worlds electricity comes from steam, and all the worlds most powerful military ships run on steam.

  • @1grinder1 Don't disregard nuclear power. It used to generate steam of course, but it's becoming very usable and there are developments being made to produce much safer and cleaner nuclear power.

    Also, photovoltaic plates, windmills and and other revolving frames can be used to generate a good deal of electricity. It's cleanest, cheapest and easiest for the common man. The biggest downside is that it's turnout isn't high enough for big business.

  • @Moparfan63 maybe steam from 100 years ago.

    but modern steam is efficient and can be ready to run in under 30 seconds.

    you can also run it on any fuel source.

    liquid, solid or gas fuels are all usable.

    Basically all electricity still comes from steam.

    All the most advanced military ships run on steam.

    Steam does NOT require lots of maintenance and prep.

    It just takes someone or some company with enough balls and cash to hire someone like me who has half a clue to design the system.

  • sell it sell it sell itttt

  • 3000 dollars ?

  • For 2500 dollars?! I'd buy one from him in immediately!

  • @boomtao He wouldn't sell it for 2500. That's what it cost HIM. That's not counting all of the time he spent working on it, all of the money that he could have made in that time period.

  • thats pretty cool.. i wish i was allowed to build my ideas.. sadly i can't draw them down so each and every bit of about 250 designs is kinda stuck in my head.. somehow it seems to work for me.. just one thing.. Where do you get electric motors from in the UK? also does anyone in the UK know where i can get 2 old man scooter things from for free? as i want to build something a little odd with their motors.. don't ask what it is as the answer will just be silence..

  • Way to go kid!!! Im all about renewable and electric technologies. its a great relief knowing there are brilliant young minds at work that have visions of sustainability

  • @leedsbutler indeed

  • now only if it was a two seater

  • scratch?thats a volkswagen bug frontend on there,wtf,i need one for my dune buggy

  • Successful with the car...Yes......With the ladies.....Not so much

  • Good work matey! Keep it up.

  • Now this is how you grow into a Man! Take matters into your own hands and run! Excellent!

  • What a fine young man. Godspeed sir!

  • Electric MG-B!

  • so he spent 2400$ on it so he would not pay 200$ for parking.

  • @Xtclilium well, I think he has a vehicle now and doesn't have to pay but .02 per gallon equivalent for the miles he will travel until the batteries die like 15 years from now(Lithium Polymers last a LONG time). This kinda is a no brainer. WINNING!

  • @Xtclilium Don't you think he can sell the thing for even more then 2400usd?

    Its win/win no matter how you look at it.

  • Amazing job, good for you! I hope to see you at one of Craig Vetter's High Mileage events later this year. You can see a lot of other ideas that folks have put together and raced at his events to see who gets the most MPG! See Craig Vetter dot com for more. :{)

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  • just because you plug it in does not mean its better for the environment you still need the same amount of energy to move it and it just so happens that electricity is cheap that don't mean its efficient

  • @minibikerider1 LOL Again I'm going to get to blast someones comment away again! :).

    These things are perfectly capable of being charged by Solar, Or wind power. and If someone really did it to "Go green" they would build their own station. Now before you say "Oh but it takes energy to make those things" well it does but you can't create Energy from thin air to build them. Once you get enough of theme built THEN you can run the factories off a farm of Wind/solar power.

    Narrow minded fuck

  • Chains? AHAHAHA!! In wheel or hub motors are much much more practical and efficient.

    This kid knows shit about design and engineering and I can build one much much better than his. Just give me 15k plus.

  • @stiffyschlong

    His one cost 2.4K, so he probably was budget restricted.

  • its teens like this guy who have the know how and drive to think it through thats basically the spot light for saving the country and might possibly the world. keep thinking on making things like this happen and just maybe you change something good for the world.

  • needs a more aerodinamic front end, but it looks and woorks great uh?

  • This guy should become an engineer

  • Tyler this is amazing. I hope others follow in your footsteps.

  • were the first cars the most efficient? with every new technology there will be a change-over, Now that he has built this car, i would assume the next one will go further into being green, besides, recycling materials? is that not green? so what if he used petrol products. His car can go further for less, give the kid a break... you need more data than two cents per mile? Why?

  • Any car can be this efficient relatively, its harder to make a full electric one that can be efficient and run for as long as a gas powered one would.

  • my truck is around .25 cents per mile FML

  • Hi mark, look online how Mr. Troy Reed built a magnetic engine that would be the best to

    build so look at it online Hope you can come up with a magnet run car. that would put

    the oil co. out of business

  • The next story we hear from this guy, he was run over with a big truck, died of cancer, arrested on false charges, suicide or disappeared like all the others.... or he sold out, on some beach in Mexico with his millions from oil company's who do not want this tech out....

  • Well, it's a start. Baby steps. Problem is... Take a look at al the materials used on this car... 95% of comes from petro in some way or another. We keep forgetting that it's not just the gas that comes from oil... plastic, fiberglass, rubber, paint, etc - all are petroleum based products. Again, a start. I would say your next step is to get off the electrical grid. Where are the solar panels? Wind turbine recharging station? Your on your way, look beyond the car!

  • The main purpose in building electric vehicles now is not to draw the entire building process away from petrol and related materials, but to create a vehicle that does not require constant use of gasoline, oil, or any other polluting substances. Only after this has been widely achieved, is anyone going to start looking deeply into ways to eliminate polluting substances in the building process as well.

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  • He should mass produce that car and sell!

  • more people need to be taking the law into their own hands. enough with having to abide by the stupid car corporations and the pathetic DMV... what ugly car designs they have - so unimaginative and boring. All cars look the same today. so generic! I would like to see more people doing what this kid did. well done mate! Keep doing it!!

  • @StupidRepublican Thats mostly due to aerodynamics and pedestrian safety laws.

  • "I didn't know what I was doing but I knew I could do it"... Whoo Hooo what a beautiful statement! It is awesome to see a young person with the kind of confidence you have, the kind that gives me hope that humanity might possibly be reborn...keep moving the mountains kid....you ROCK :)

  • I HATE HOW SCHOOLS BRAIN WASH OUR KIDS TODAY!

  • @douggie7772010 Yeah me too, I hate how they brainwash kids into thinking that America is perfect and that its the greatest country ever to exist in the world and that everywhere else is evil/and or stupid and that the American way is the only right way an that we should support our troops who are nothing more then cold hearted killers, and worship the flag like its our god. Yeah I hate the way schools brainwash children to. But going green isn't brainwashing its smart

  • This is the most inspiring thing I have seen in a while. Well done! What do you call it?

  • well done mate your car looks wicked and its green

  • alsome,keep going forword

  • This is what the World needs. More young people like him who are DOERS! This is the best learning experience there could be, better than any college education even though it is not a replacement for college.

  • cool

  • @Shaizan0... It looks like a lot of you out there are either sociopaths or just plain-simple don't have anything constructive about builders like this 19-year-old. Most of you are nothing but arrogant, counter-intuitive, time-wasting losers!

    Don't post another comment about me again!

  • @AAVista why are you surprised?

    The MAJORITY of individuals in the western world have SOCIALIZED to be sociopaths.

    Ironic, I know.

    And it has been bleeding to the rest of the world as well.

  • @harleighquinn Tell me about it, pal! They even put up websites about World war III and other fear-mongering subjects. A true friend just recently explained to me that:

    "An opinion is like an asshole: everybody has one."

    At least the Occupy Wall Street movement proved far more peaceful, striving non-violence. But we are still inundated by violent, obsessive menfolk.

    I really appreciate your reply. I could be one of those people who are more able than most.

    Thanks!

  • Incredible!! Ill vote for him for President!!!

  • He gets millionaire and never builds anything like that no more or he will die or dissapear mysteriously.

  • Look up ''Datsun White Zombie''

  • @heyitsfp I saw that car! It is flat-out awesome! It motivates me further to continue with an old project I started back in 1995.

    Against the preconceptions of "Big Oil" by the sociopaths, we will prevail. Don't give up hope!

  • the reasons why cars like this arent built by manufacturers is because a car like that would get demolished in a crash

  • I need more data than ".02 cents per mile"

  • Does it run on a simple car battery, how fast and how far can it run?

  • @RooFx

    $2400?

  • @Slovenec5

    2400.00 investment will not do much good when this car is under a Hummer.

  • @RooFx true, but hopefully people will stop using those (close to useless) vehicles. any progress to change can only be a good thing.

  • @RooFx Agreed. Range is almost more important than cost of operation in a lot of places. I've seen people bragging about electric vehicles that can only travel about 50 miles on a charge, which is nothing when you think about it. Especially if you live in a more rural area and the next town is at least 20 miles away, would suck to be you if you needed to run errands there.

  • @ZeroPointAlpha

    Exactly.. "Yeah I will be by around 3pm..I have to run to the bank in town (28 miles RT), then after I recharge I will be by, but will probably need to borrow an outlet so I can get back home"

    Do not confuse motion for action!

  • People are so naive to think that our future depend only on the genius of an inventor."The car companies aren't coming out with this things they'r saying they're gonna come up with" And that is PRECISELY for a reason; the same reason why they are going to pay you a visit fairly soon and offer you to buy the patent of your invention and then we'll never hear from that car again,OR you refuse to sell your patent and your life will become very difficult...

    Suppression of science is KEY for big oil

  • @melquideses Exactly. Suppression is why we don't have free anergy and antigeravity propulsion and a big public space programme. These thisngs were invented many decades ago, and suppressed. Reality is what we are told by the "authorities" is a tissue of LIES. FREE YOU MIND. LEARN.

  • @melquideses

    Yeah, it must be those "evil corporations" holding it back, "man." It couldn't be the massive list of regulations, the standards of which those corporations have to meet and which determine nearly everything about what goes into a car and would make the production of this thing impossible.

  • @lordpoppycock Lol, and you think it's not? Do you understand what "greed" and "hunger for power" means? Did you know that people are loaded with both? If I were an oil company and had the ridiculous funding they do, I would do my best to "guide" innovation in such a way that would keep people dependent on my product too...well if I was a greedy son of a bitch at least. Good on this kid...it may fall on the people to overcome oil dependency on their own.

  • @urborg74 The oil companies do this with "free energy" like solar panels as well -- when I was looking up the cost of solar, I found that BP was listed as the owner of some and they just happened to be "out of stock." You are right, it is up to the grassroots like this kid to build their own.

  • What an inspiration!

  • Hats off to you, Mr Mark King. I salute your ingenuity & determination shown at such a young age. You are an inspiration not just to your peers but to everyone.

  • You can't help admiring the inventiveness and enthusiasm being shown here. Shame that investors and employers are so sluggish to recognise such talent and ideas.especially in the present economy.

  • where can you get the blue prints I would like them.

  • Why did he use great big tires for a 200 pound vehicle that

    goes 30 mph? Doesn't he know that those wheels are eating

    up most of his battery power?? If he put bike or small moped

    tires on that thing it would go 5 times as far and much faster.

    And their bearings are much lower in friction.

  • A three wheeled vehicle is treated like a motorcycle, so it's not subject to any of the same laws that apply to cars.

  • pay to park at you school??? total bullshit the school has no right to push the agenda and punish people when the parking spaces are already payed for by our taxes or just being a citizen. that is not american.

  • @circusboy90210 It's our planet, we have the right to push

    that agenda through democratic government. I bet you're

    the kind of sociopath that will want to cruise the strip when

    the world is dying.

  • @rstevewarmorycom your sosiciopath, claiming that a device who's output is99% h2o is killing the planet.  and no a very vocay and ill informed minority does not have the right to push their agenda when the majority is smart enough to know better than that. no the world is not dying. god bless you and your misguided ideas.

  • @circusboy90210 Nope, HHO is fake. Doesn't work. Signed,

    sealed and delivered. The world is dying of CO2. When the

    methane comes up out of the ocean as it warms in temperature

    and the greenhouse effect gets 5 times bigger, I hope you

    remember me when Phoenix hits 160 degrees F and cooks

    everyone!!

  • @rstevewarmorycom was not referrign to hho , h20 is water. the world is not dying of co2. yes methane is a danger so we better use it and start farming it before it get's warm however the worst cast scenario is water levels rising.

  • @circusboy90210 No, using methane makes CO2 and the

    global warming continues. The methane I'm talking about is

    from the methane hydrates in the ocean, warm them up

    enough and they release, and the earth actually cooks, we're

    not talking a few degrees rise, we're talking 50 degree rise!

    So, as you see, sea level rise is NOT the worst that can happen!

    We're talking actual death of the planet, temps that high can

    kill ALL life.

  • @rstevewarmorycom do you know how close to impossible it is to even raise the temperatures of the hydrates by even a hundreth of a degree??? so the solution to the problem is to start farming this stuff . global warming at worst will raise the overall temp about 1/10 of a degree in 100 years, so were not talking eminent danger here. again sea level rise is pretty much the worst that can happen. bring some numbers and facts to the table like temps depth heat per cu ft of water and time. ty

  • @circusboy90210 Farming it doesn't help. Methane is 1) the worst of

    the global warming gases, and 2) if you burn it you just get more CO2.

    Also, last I looked we were up 1.5 C in the oceans over the last 50 years

    already, I think you should check that out. Some scientists say the

    methane hydrates are already pouring out of the Bermuda area, and

    that this is what causes ships to sink there by creating sudden

    pockets of ocean where the water density drops due to methane

    destroying bouyancy.

  • @rstevewarmorycom methane is burning on the ocean floor anyways . all supporters of alternatives act as if hydrogen does not produce co2 either. farming it will reduce it's volume so if it ever does warm up( highly unlikely in the next 10,000 years no matter what we do. also temperature reading stations have gone off line in russia, improperly placed next to a/c vents and on heat islands in the middle of parking lots. this rise is not accurate. also sub sea ocean sensors throw the av up.

  • @circusboy90210 Uh, no. Methane's not burning on the ocean floor.

    What would it burn WITH?? And Hydrogen when burned produces

    water, so they're right. No CO2. Farming what? You're seeming to

    get fuzzier in your meaning as we go on here. No. You've been misled.

    The concern that heat-island effect was to blame for global warming

    evidence has been disproved.

  • @rstevewarmorycom the heat island effect is very true goto las vegas in winter and just outside the city it's freezing , yes heat islands do exist. forget that though many temp stations are next to a/c vents and other heat pollutants. the sub sea ocean sensors have been proven to kick up the average as well. the sun warms the ocean surface down to 15 ft where these are located throwing the average up even more. methane flumes are in the thousands constantly burning .

  • @circusboy90210 The methane hydrates are thousands of feet down.

    What would they be burning with, there's no oxygen???

  • @rstevewarmorycom yes and it burns at thousands of degrees, there is actually types of life that depend on the flumes and live in this hyperly hot ambiance. anaerobic combustion is also a possibility. think outside of your narrow minded box, sir. (no offense)

  • @circusboy90210 Are you sure you're not thinking of the mid-oceanic

    volcanic vents? Those aren't "burning" and the stuff coming out is

    not methane, it's water and steam. "Anearobic combustion" of methane

    would yield just hydrogen and carbon. There's no free oxygen down

    there to burn either one. Anaerobic bacteria produce methane, but

    they don't burn it. There are a few bacteria which can eat methane,

    but only very slowly. I suspect you're confused.

  • @rstevewarmorycom

    The weather people cannot even be sure of a forecast seven days away and now you are going to trust a very new science that was only created to support/justify global warming.

    GL w that.

  • @RooFx Microclimate locally is very much harder to

    predict than mass systems. Where did you get the idea

    that climate science was invented recently? We've got

    climate records going back several hundred years and

    archives of ice and sea cores that reveal the climate

    hundreds of thousands if not millions of years ago. It

    may not have been a widely appreciated science, but

    it predates the global warming issue by a couple centuries.

  • @rstevewarmorycom Sometimes a 1000 words ruins your picture, too.

    Every planet in the solar system is heating up.. explain that with yer CO2... I'll wait for your response.

  • @RooFx What in the world are you talking about?

    Do you mean insolation, the sun's output? That has

    changed many times, it's predictable. What isn't

    is the degree of warming and CO2 this time, it doesn't

    correlate with the regular period of earth's axial

    tilt or its precessing, nor the earth's orbit, nor the

    sun's output. By those factors we should be cooling,

    but we're warming. That in itself should scare you.

    If we get to a warming period for those factors, the

    GW will be HORRIFIC!

  • @rstevewarmorycom I figured a 'physicist' would KNOW what I was talking about.

    Regardless of what you or anyone THINK should be happening, ALL of the the planets are warming up according to every space probe we have.

    You cannot suggest that the Sun is 'predictable' as only we have a scope of 0.0000006% of the Suns life.

    Rather than dodge it, you could at least answer my question from the last post if you are really a physicist.

    You are losing credibility points by leaps and bounds, now.

  • @RooFx The sun is predictable for as long as we have

    been measuring it, and in addition for as long as we have

    related previous fossil and ice core evidence from which

    we can infer it. The current output of the sun is not unknown,

    and the change in earth's surface energy doesn't match a

    simple change in solar output. What it DOES match is the

    carbon dioxide induced greenhouse global warming. The rest

    of your vague assertion is incomprehensible. My credibility

    doesn't reside with you.

  • @rstevewarmorycom U still have not answered the Q

    You just keep working the global warming of Earth thing

    Apparently, man-made global warming has gotten so out of hand because of SUVs and coal-chugging global warming skeptics that even the biggest planet in our solar system – Jupiter – is being affected by our addiction to carbon pollution. And that follows the other solar effects of our dependence on fossil fuels, including Mars losing its polar ice cap (what will Martian polar bears do now?)

  • @RooFx What in the world are you talking about?

    Are you just being an ass? No other planet is affected

    by our carbon dioxide. There is hard vacuum between

    us and those planets, unfathomable thousands of miles

    of it. You don't seem to be quite right in the head.

  • @rstevewarmorycom You don't seem to be right enough in the head to tell he was trolling you and calling you stupid. Your response only confirmed his assumptions.

  • @Mr41432 It's hard to tell the difference between

    someone who's trolling and someone who's just

    extremely stupid. In fact there probably isn't one.

  • @rstevewarmorycom Your 'credibility' resides with your ability to answer straight forward questions. Not with me or any particular person.

  • @RooFx We would gladly answer your questions if

    they weren't incomprehensible.

  • @rstevewarmorycom how old are you?

    Typical was the situation at the U.S. Weather Bureau, where an advisory group reported in 1953 that climatology was "exclusively a data collection and tabulation business."

  • @RooFx I'm 62. That was 1953. "Things change,

    people change, interest rates fluctuate." (LA Story)

    That was till they saw something weird happening.

  • @RooFx

    Benjamin Franklin was measuring the temperature of the

    Gulf Stream on his way to France to try to get help from

    the French for this new country they were trying to start.

    If you'd seen ice that was there for thousands of years

    suddenly start disappearing about twenty years ago,

    you'd be concerned too. But the arctic takes the hit first,

    like water in a heated pan with ice in it. It stays at near

    freezing till the ice is gone, then shortly thereafter it

    boils.

  • @RooFx Don't believe the deny-ers, you'll just look stupid

    later to yourself and others. Take it from a physicist.

  • @rstevewarmorycom

    HHO is proven to work just fine. IDK where you get your data but the issue (all along) has been that it cannot be made for free. As long as it is a lot cheaper to make than gasoline.. what is the problem with having only water vapor exit your exhaust system?

  • @RooFx You don't have the correct definition for HHO.

    Of course hydrogen works, but the "HHO Scam" is the

    commercial spam wanting to sell you a way to use a

    peanut-butter jar sized electrolysis device to make a

    little hydrogen oxygen mixture that supposedly boosts

    gas mileage. It doesn't, and the fact that some people

    think it does is simply evidence of a bad science education

    system in this country.

  • @RooFx To make a significant difference

    in gas mileage it would take a huge electrolyzer that used as

    much gasoline running a huge alternator as it would take to

    run the car electrically. It would take literally a tank truck

    of hydrogen at standard temperature and pressure being

    towed behind to store enough hydrogen to run a car engine.

    Liquid or highly compressed hydrogen works, but the HHO

    devices are scams.

  • @rstevewarmorycom the school belongs to the general public who already payed to have the right to park there by merely being a citizen . no you as a mere administrator do not have the right to push your agenda on public property.

  • @circusboy90210 The whole general public can't meet there.

    Those appointed to administer it are given the say so by the

    democracy. If people want a different administrator they can

    appoint a different one. The "agenda" is that of the public, not

    each individual.

  • @rstevewarmorycom

    What would be a better plan (if the world were 'dying')?

    I am just curious.

    The sheeples agendas will never pull down the goals of Agenda 21....Ever.

  • @RooFx Better than what? It's enough to recognize

    that everybody can't park in a parking lot to justify

    regulation. Ain't no "rights" about it except for the

    right of the public as a whole which owns it. What

    does this have to do with the Rio Summit?

  • @circusboy90210

    YES!

    People are missing the main point and that is a flagrant infringement on the tax payers' rights. As if the fuel costs for a regular daily driven vehicle were not a much larger incentive.

  • @RooFx yes the insutution is already payed for by taxpayers and even more so by gas powered vehicles. the administrators have not right to push their personal agenda on a public parking lot. however fuel cost for operating a vehicle are only a burden to the poorest of the poor.

  • @circusboy90210 Tht all depends on what you have to drive and how far you drive each week.. I have to drive over 800 miles a week and believe me when I say.. It IS a burden to more than just the poorest of the poor. The combined fuel cost here per month for our two vehicles (just going to work) is over 240.00 a week. That aint chicken scratch and then ya got oil, tires ect.

  • @RooFx compared to what? $240 is not a whole lot of money either though. work related is tax deductible.

  • @circusboy90210 Compared to what?? say... compared to someone that does not have to drive so far each week???

    I refuse to fly due to TSA and their continual and escalating infringement of our rights.

    I refuse to ride a bus or train for the same reasons (they will be next in the TSA news).

  • @RooFx I drive thousands of mile to get to my job sites every week or so. it's just money. the tsa are not that hard to deal with. driving a car is always cheaper and better than flying. this is coming from a person who got a job with flight perks just for the flying experience. tsa does not regulate those nor are they a legitimate law enforcement agency.

  • @RooFx the average median salary is $48k maybe you should demand a per diem for your expenses.

  • Unfortunately they wont let you drive it on the street legally until you have hundreds of pounds of safety equipements which will require a more sturdy chasis which will require a bigger motor which will cost the same as any other gas auto, but with the electric you will only be able to go 1/10th the distance on a charge. Take the $2400 buy a real car and just pay the parking fee which the school is still going to charge you to park your electric car.

  • @elinikk That's not true, you can license any three wheeled

    vehicle as a moped and the required equipment is cheap.

    All you need is disk brakes and prove it stops in a specific

    distance, bicycle disk brakes are sufficient, and lighting per

    code. Then it is minimally insured for liability, about $75 a

    year, and your off.

  • @rstevewarmorycom That may be true, check the codes for the area of the world you live in. If you can classify it as a moped you may just need some kind of lights and signs on it. I think you cannot drive it on a highway where I live. In Africa bush I think anything goes!

  • there going to kill him if he tries ti mass market

  • 240 dollars to park at college? Change schools dude you're being ripped-off! 3 quick questions...

    1) Where are the indicators?

    2) Does it mow the lawn too?

    3) Where does your girl sit? Oh wait... of course you don't have a g/f. What was I thinking? LOL

  • 3 big oil conservatives watched this

  • lulz..duct tape on the battery :P

    Great innovation, but he still has a few lessons to learn.

  • We should all learn from this young man.

  • are the plans available online?

  • That is road legal ?

  • awsome its cool

  • mass produce it bro make em for ur friends charge em 5 grand

  • Price is still too insane, I'm going to build one out of a home built Adult Tricycle (super low weight, perfect for supporting batteries)... I have the car batteries I reconditioned myself with an electric desulfator, and I'm going to make the tricycle out of a scrounged beach cruiser and make the back end myself. After that, all I need is some electric motor, and maybe eventually a controller. My total budget is $50, I have to keep it under that.

  • Really excellent work. His point that the car companies are not coming through is exactly correct. The world is a paradise with plenty of clean, natural, renewable energy-- it is just the few that seem to think the entire world exists to serve them and so we stay backwards in technology and clean, natural energy.

  • I need one of these, but perhaps a different design, more space-shippy :D

  • Mark ...I want this.. can u build one for me? Lets start a company. We could be the next GM.

  • @norda58 The rules for production of a car for sale is not the same as for personal use, to be allowed to be sold, this car would need to go through alot of testing, brake efficiency/distance test, impact test, tyre testing, suspension etc. this would fail really bad, and you would have to be able to produce all kind of numbers such as charge time, battery life, miles per charge, tyre wear amount, tyre types and so on. Most of these rules don't apply if you build it for your self though

  • So, what does it cost to park this at the school? It won't fit in the bicycle rack.

  • Fantastic job! I'd like to see you post more of Mark's stuff... this young man will go far.

  •  YOU HAVE A VERY BRIGHT FUTURE AHEAD OF YOU KEEP IT UP

  • @TayouJin Best comment ever! (although I was by no means sure, from your many other comments, which "side" you were on)

  • So, to all those who still don't get it that we have to put all our effort into struggling through the inevitable societal-technological learning curve of switching all vehicles off oil as soon as possible: what happens to ALL oil-powered vehicles when the oil runs out? The world is past peak oil, so gas prices will only rise from now on.

  • HOW could this project cost only $2400???!!!

    Surely the announcer meant it must have cost $24,000 !!

    I've spent $1700 - only $700 less - for an electric-assist tricycle (plus tuneup when it got here, plus helmet) so far. It took 3 months to get here from China-and-Germany (parts from both countries). And, it's not enclosed, and I gotta ride on the dangerous edge of the road.

  • Outlaw SUVs. That's the answer.

  • if this guy made a tutorial on how he built this from start to finish I'd buy it for sure!

  • car companies are never coming out with electric cars, cos' gas companies are bribing them!

  • so he spent $2,400 to save $240 on parking?

  • @demoze that what I said, I personally think he did this to prove to himself I could do it more than care to save money.

  • The electric car is the amazing part and NOT THE HELICOPTER? HE BUILT A HELICOPTER, IDIOTS!

  • can u help me get the blue prints of his?

  • This young man is a REVOLUTIONARY! Also, SHOW US THE HELICOPTER.

  • Ok dexter laboratory

  • They have been experimenting and building these contraptions since the 60's. This supposed to be new? Good luck getting it by government road worthiness and crash testing!!!!!

  • for all the doubters: search for the Renault Twizzy. affordable, electric, two-seater. comes in 45kph and 80kph model.