LIGTHWEIGHT AXIAL DRIVING CAR: FRONT A REAR DOORS, COMBUSTION/ELECTRIC/ HYBRID, READY FOR HANDICAPPED USE AND GOODS TRANSPORTATION, EASY PARKING

A.J. Vázquez, Madrid, Spain (EU)
Car body has a truncated spherical shape, 1.6 m diameter, divided in four 90º pieces. The top and bottom (dark grey) are metallic with a circular reinforced tube and fixed to the floor. The floor is a box with reinforced tubes protecting against crashes in all directions. The front and rear pieces (light grey) are sliding transparent doors. The four wheels are in rhombic position allowing an easy driving.

The driving axial wheels are those of a motorcycle rear wheel; the side wheels are the front ones. The two axial wheels are connected with a cross pulley. Turning right or left the former wheel, the back moves the same angle in opposite direction. This design saves weight, because don’t need differential nor transmission compensating in excess the battery weight, reducing price and maintenance costs.

Driving is made by a joystick installed between the two front seats or by a steering rack connected to the vertical axis of the front wheel. This driving system eliminates the driver impact against steering wheel risk in case of crash, let the car to be drive by right or leftish drivers and make easy to drive the car in countries with right or left circulation rules.

Lighting and indicating lights are inside the body making easy their control and replacement. Over the front wheel the control panel has a screen with the view of the three cameras, installed inside the car, giving images of both sides and rear view.

Electrical batteries are in sliding containers inside the floor reinforced box. Its central bottom weight increases car stability. They can be recharged in situ at home or in parking or street places or ex situ taking out the battery container to be recharged by night at lower electricity prices while replaced with another fully charged battery box at home or in service stations. The car can be fully electric of hybrid if one axial wheel has a combustion engine. It would work as a fuel reserve solution in case of battery exhaustion.

Seat back can be folded down and then side folded to the central axis car. After clamping a wheel chair its user is ready to drive. Folding only three seats the car is ready for medium size goods transportation.

Front a rear sliding doors allows parking normal to the pedestrian lane. Access is easier in particular to wheel chair users. Also saves parking space because three cars occupy - side by side - the place that a 5 m length car.