Another Copy-able Body Design

[mezmo]

I just love the shape of this proposed "Zeppelin" velomobile/HPV car.
It is very Dymaxion-ish. It looks like a variation on the plank
boat building method or the stitch-n-glue method could get this done. And the
designer is thinking of going down the the Open-Source path. This looks ike a very reasonable way to do compound curves with flat strips.
[Ignore the white boxy Cyclone model - that is just too butt-ugly.]

http://www.gizmag.com/future-people-hpv ... 015/35636/
Also
http://www.thefuturepeople.us/zeppelin.html

Cheers,
Norm/mezmo

P.S. My thinking with this is to use it's design as a TD/TTT body.

[dales133]

The red ones cool Nd could support a number of techniques and your rights. .. the white one is hideous

[kudzu]

I love the idea of a sociable velomobile but it would definitely required a lot of electric assist since it would be so wide as to impede motor traffic unless you could get up to & maintain a good amount of speed. It is super cool that it made it to the Detroit Auto Show.

Most DIY velomobiles seem to be made from coroplast. A few have used zotefoam. If you used very thin XPS and the lightest possible substructure you could make a lightweight velomobile shell. Then you build a little single berth torpedo shaped trailer to pull behind it.

That white one is a monstrosity. Some folks in Dales part of the world have done a much better job of it. Check out the "Stuff n Nonsense" entry from Rotovelo in Australia. http://www.trisled.com.au/custom.asp

[loaderman]

This from my understanding is the most aerodynamic car body design. It has a cd of .15 which is the lowest ever.
http://korecologic.com/about/urbee_2/