Please Make This Cute Folding Electrical Scooter, Honda

Again within the Nineteen Eighties, Honda had this neat concept to suit a folding scooter into the trunk of its vehicles. This manner, a driver solely needed to get their automobile to the sting of a metropolis earlier than pulling out the scooter and taking pictures into city with out having to fret about parking. It was neat, and a sure sort of automobile fan has been eager for the return of this Motocompo scooter ever since. Nicely now, it appears to be like like Honda could be contemplating bringing again the foldable scooter in EV type.

Based on a bunch of recent patents uncovered by Cycle World, Honda is experimenting with the thought of making a brand new folding electrical scooter. And this isn’t a scooter just like the folding ones you see stood up riders scooting spherical cities on. As an alternative, this one is supposed for sitting on, and might even be strapped to different gadgets to create one mega scooter — it’s neat! Cycle World experiences:

“The bike has an especially quick wheelbase, with the rider sitting virtually above the rear wheel. The seat is movable and might be slid ahead to make the bike smaller or shifted rearward for rider consolation.

“The patents additionally present that the bars and footplates might be folded to cut back the bike’s width when it’s out of use, and the mix of the sliding seat and folding components means the machines might be packed intently collectively for transport or storage.”

In the event that they ever make it into manufacturing, the little scooters can be battery-powered, with cells mounted beneath the seat. This, Cycle World suggests, means it could possibly be a swappable unit to chop down charging occasions. Apparently, Honda is already engaged on swappable batteries for electrical scooters and has even began opening battery alternate websites in Japan.

That battery pack could possibly be related to a mixed electrical motor, transmission and swingarm unit, in keeping with the patents.

And whereas up to now, that each one appears like a fairly neat little scooter, it’s about to get an entire lot cooler. That’s as a result of Honda desires riders to have the ability to leash a number of of those micro machines collectively to create some form of scooter Megazord.

Based on Cycle World, the scooters include a second part within the footboard that may be flipped up and related to a neighboring machine. Cycle World experiences:

“Honda’s patent exhibits how 4 bikes could possibly be related in a diamond sample; the rider sits on the entrance bike, controlling and steering, whereas the remaining scooters path behind. The scooters would even be electronically related, so the unmanned bikes behind would reply to throttle inputs but additionally to steering instructions. Whereas their steering can’t transfer when trailing behind a lead bike, the cornering inputs of that lead machine can be transmitted to these following, in order that the scooters on the left and proper would alter their relative speeds throughout corners.”

This could be billed as a neat method for one particular person to gather scooters and transfer them spherical city to wherever they’re wanted. However, it additionally appears to be like like a enjoyable solution to experience to the seaside along with your buds. I prefer it.

So whereas that is only a patent that doesn’t imply Honda will ever truly make the factor, I feel it’s our collective accountability to assemble collectively and demand that they someday do.