Coming Soon To A City Near You… Stackable Cars!

SUSIQ DRIVES a Smart Car at the mo, so she is going to go nuts about this concept.

In the near future (we’re talking years, not decades) this little concept may well be the answer to all your public transport woes.

The biggest challenge with using public transport is that it doesn’t always go exactly where you need it to. Parking is at such a premium in most cities that it’s not practical anymore due to a) the cost of parking a car and b) the damage being done to the planet in the process, however those whacky scientists over at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working on a very cute community driven solution.

It’s called the ‘City Car’ and it is being envisioned as a two-seater electric vehicle powered by lithium-ion batteries. It will probably weigh between 1,000 and 1,200 pounds and could collapse, then stack like a shopping trolley with six to eight fitting into a typical parking space. It isn’t just a car, but is designed as a system of shared cars with kiosks at locations around a city or small community.

Want to see what this is envisioned to look like in action?

The picture over there on the right gives the conceptual view of how it might work, and to be fair I don’t think you would get much out of a car like this from a shopping perspective. I mean, where will all those grocery bags go FFS!

Still, it does pose an interesting potential solution to problem of car parking for business reasons within busy city centres. If its just a method of getting from A to B, cheaply and reliably… it might just work.

Of course, if the cars are that light, small and portable… they better design a big fuck off chain protection system too in order to stop the cute little buggers ending up in the same place most shopping trolleys do… which over here in Ireland is usually at the bottom of a river.