ELECTRIC CAR WITH NO STEERING WHEEL - HONDA EV-STER
Honda is
actively exploring eco friendly electric vehicles and has come up with
the Honda EV-Ster, an electric concept car, without a steering wheel,
featured in both Geneva Motor Show 2012 as well as the Tokyo Motor Show
held in December 2011. Ev-Ster is a two-seater vehicle with a carbon
fiber body to reduce weight. It has a small electric motor running on
lithium-ion batteries. This motor powers the rear wheels, in sports car
fashion, and with its 78 horsepower. Honda claims a range for the
EV-STER of 100 miles (on a single charge of its lithium ion battery),
with acceleration timed at 5 seconds to 60 km/h (37 mph).
In place of the
traditional steering wheel, the driver uses a yoke - a twin lever
steering system, to steer, giving the motorist similar experience as
riding a motor bike where handlebars are used to turn. Instead of
turning the wheel, the driver would push and pull the the levers
according to the direction he travels. The car would go into production
sometime this year.
