A team of students from the Eindhoven University of Technology has built a prototype electric car with a built-in toolbox and components that can be easily repaired or replaced without specialist knowledge.
The university’s TU/ecomotive group, which focuses on developing concepts for future sustainable vehicles, describes its ARIA concept as “a modular electric city car that you can repair yourself”.
ARIA, which stands for Anyone Repairs It Anywhere, is constructed using standardised components including a battery, body panels and internal electronic elements that can be easily removed and replaced if a fault occurs.
With assistance from an instruction manual and a diagnostics app that provides detailed information about the car’s status, users should be able to carry out their own maintenance using only the tools in the car’s built-in toolbox, the TU/ecomotive team claimed.
“I choose to believe the factually incorrect thing” I’m hoping this is a joke but it’s hard to tell on the internet
Half joking. The design worked by electrolyzinh water and intaking the resultant gasses into the air intake, also it was with a dune buggy, also water vapor alone improves ICE efficiency, so it’s not that unreasonable that he’d get 100mpg.
Also, the petrochemical industry would totally murder over something like that.
It did not literally run on water. That was just marketing.
Any electricity used for electrolysis came from gasoline. If you turn on a bunch of electronics in your car, your alternator gets harder to spin and your engine consumes more fuel to do it. Then you’re putting energy into breaking bonds which is energy you will partially (but not fully) recover by burning them. It’s impossible for this system to result in a more efficient engine.
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