Electric Car Made From Bamboo To Go On Sale In Japan

Eschewing the silvery paint and suave breaking ball of mostelectric carsnowadays , the JapaneseMeguru electric carkind of looks like a rickshaw , and is made from bamboo .

It ’ll be going on cut-rate sale for around the combining weight of $ 10,000 , with the Maker Yodogawa Group andKinki Knives Industries Corporation(what a name ! ) aiming it the more traditional cities of Kyoto and Nara .

While on the outside it looks like a large - scale electric refrigerator magnet you ’d peck up in a souvenir store , internally it ’s stuffed with enough electrics to power it for 40 klick after just 2hrs of charging . Its top swiftness may only be 40 km/h , but it ’s an affordable , eco - friendly room to get about a townsfolk or city in style . Shame it only fit two masses , really . [ Japan Trends ]