Now a car with inbuilt electric scooter

Traffic snarls in cities charge not account abundant anguish as a fresh car with an built-in electric scooter that flips and folds into the cossack will acquiesce commuters to zip through the chock-full streets.

Carmaker Volkswagen is alive on a bike that neatly compacts into the cossack of a car and can be recharged on the move, The Age reported.The "Bik.e" may attending like a acceptable advance bike, but there are no pedals - appropriately it's absolutely added like a folding electric scooter.

Honda in Japan has already awash a adaptation of its City bear in the 1980s with a bike in the boot. The abstraction will be a absolution for commuters who are more balked with blubbery cartage and ample parking charges.

Volkswagen has advised the Bik.e to assignment in bike with the car - it folds up for accessible accumulator in the spare-wheel able-bodied and can be recharged by active it into the car's array aperture or a accepted ability point.The Bik.e's top-speed is 20 km per hour and it has a ambit of about 20 km.

With such a slight ambit it's hardly activity to alter your accustomed drive, but it could able-bodied be accessible if you esplanade your car a continued ambit from your workplace, or alike for accepting to and from the alternation station.

A business case is currently actuality developed for the Bik.e and the abstraction is acceptable to accomplish it to production, said Volkswagen's arch of analysis and development, Ulrich Hackenberg, during a columnist appointment at the Beijing motor show.He said that Volkswagen's adventure for environmentally affable advancement is not bound to accepted forms of transportation.

"We anticipate far above the car, as such, with a focus on advancement in general" Hackenberg said. "And we do this consistently in abstraction teams fabricated up of specialists with a mission to attending into the approaching and accord up absolute conventions, which agency award new, anarchistic solutions".

Having the Bik.e in the spare-wheel able-bodied is additionally accessible for an emergency bearings - it's like accepting a brace of spares instead of aloof one.

"(The Bik.e) can be bankrupt up and stowed calmly in the baggage compartment, or on the added caster at the aback with no brake of the accommodation available," said Hackenberg.