This Electric All Terrain Pendular Quadricycle is a very unique vehicle that you can race over everything from grassy hills and dirt roads to fields of snow and rutted trails. It looks like it would be so much fun to ride, a bit like a jet ski where it’s hard to stop smiling while you ride.
Featuring an innovative design with a driver nacelle, this electric off-road vehicle can easily negotiate uneven terrain and steep slopes while giving the driver precise control. Since it is electric, maintenance should be hassle-free. All around it seems like an amazing vehicle with just one problem, the price.
This is the electric vehicle that moves over rough, off-road terrain with four wheels that articulate on longitudinal axes in concert with the nacelle of the driver. Designed and manufactured in the south of France, the craft’s patented pendulum motion is a product of placing the center of gravity of the nacelle below its pivot axis and placing the pivot axis of each wheel below its point of contact with the ground. This imparts an independent pendular effect to the nacelle and wheels, allowing the craft to negotiate uneven terrain – each wheel negotiates differences independently – while the driver tilts the nacelle with the wheels when turning or driving up a slope. All four wheels steer, giving the driver positive, immediate feedback – this gives a high degree of precise control over grassy hills, dirt trees, snowfields, deep-rutted dirt tracks and more.
This electric All Terrain Pendular Quadricycle can be yours if you put down an extra $15,000. Buy it at Hammacher Schlemmer.