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Alternative Energy Policies a Boon For Inflatable Electric Car
6/28/2009

Brian Stretch writes with a story about the Mini Utility Vehicle forerunner from XP Vehicles, an llc.view results from: definiendum | lexicon



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share this: car that is partly inflatable. The recent struggles of the auto trade and a hold peddlers climate that supports the evolvement of other side energy vehicles have given the car a better chance at in fact hitting the market. Quoting: "Building a car takes many years and tens to hundreds of swarm of dollars traditionally. XP is able to cut a lot of the costs and timeframe because its car has 70 percent less parts than a regular car, and the company is using novel materials that require simpler factory devices, and giving and manufacturing processes that lower the cost to deploy. ... The seat is inflatable, the dashboard is inflatable, and the inward structure and carrying racks are inflatable, or a mesh suspension. Instead of requiring six-axis robots, XP uses radio frequency welders that look like giant waffle irons. The factory equipment is much less high-priced and the car simply has less parts that could fail. The motors are built into the rear wheels in most XP prototypes. The first cars to reach the market will have two rear hub motors and a motor controller, that's it."

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