{"id":1057,"date":"2010-03-10T08:43:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T11:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallvehicles.wordpress.com\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2010-03-10T08:43:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T11:43:22","slug":"a-different-kind-of-hybrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/10\/a-different-kind-of-hybrid\/","title":{"rendered":"A Different Kind Of Hybrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"HumanCar NEV\" src=\"http:\/\/c0388982.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/humancar.jpg\" alt=\"HumanCar NEV\" width=\"388\" height=\"218\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">HumanCar NEV uses human generated power to help charge the batteries<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <span id=\"result_box\" class=\"long_text\">HumanCar Imagine PS NEV uses power generated by the passengers or driver to recharge the vehicle&#8217;s batteries. <\/span>The vehicle uses a rowing mechanism to generate power and can seat four.  The battery can also be charged via a standard electrical outlet.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Because steering using the rowing handles would be too difficult to control the vehicle is steered by &#8220;Body Steering&#8221; (read leaning into turns). According to Chuck Greenwood, HumanCar Inc. CEO and son of Charles Greenwood [<\/em>the inventor<em>], this is apparently much more intuitive (not to mention more fun) than using a conventional steering wheel.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The company claims to have orders for 200 of the vehicles which currently cost $75,000 to produce.  Management expects to start full commercial production when 800 orders are received, at which point the vehicles will sell for $15,500. &#8211; <em>Marc Cesare<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"HumanCar Imageine PS NEV\" href=\"http:\/\/masalfians.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/humancar-aims-for-healthy-planet-with.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more:  Masalfians.blogspot.com <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HumanCar Imagine PS NEV uses power generated by the passengers or driver to recharge the vehicle&#8217;s batteries. The vehicle uses a rowing mechanism to generate power and can seat four. The battery can also be charged via a standard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/10\/a-different-kind-of-hybrid\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,18,19,20,23,26],"tags":[431,632,772,2183],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles","category-market-entrants","category-nev","category-new-vehicle","category-pricing-info","category-sales-figures","category-technology","tag-electric-vehicle","tag-human-power","tag-lsv","tag-nev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}