Inflatable Car Passes the Pumps

[RobRich]

Gas pumps, that is. XP Vehicles intends to offer a line of electric vehicles shrouded with an inflatable polymer construction body, with a claim of the car achieving up to an impressive 300 miles per single charge.

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It all sounds too good to be true until you realize that, best case scenario, you have to pick up your date in a freakin' balloon car. (Still, totally cool if you were one of those X-Games types and paint it Mt. Dew green, I bet.)

Source: Gizmodo

[vass0922]

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Q. What’s all this about driving them off cliffs and floating them in floods and tsunami’s? Are they really super cars?
A. The nature of the polymer construction, on those that use it, offers secondary advantages which are not part of the intended use but which could possibly provide additional safety in such circumstances.

Woohoo bumper cars down the Beltway!!

Get out of my way you silly Maryland driver! /bump