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This egg-shaped vehicle is General Motors En-V electric car. Don't rush to your local Chevy dealer yet. It's not for sale.

For now it's purely experimental but GM thinks it could change the way we drive by combining a number of interesting features.
First, as you've probably guessed, seeing as there's no obvious place to fit an engine, it's electrically driven.
On a related note, it's really, really small. It's so small, in fact, that it drives on two wheels, using four wheels only to park. While moving, it uses balancing technology taken from the Segway to remain upright.
Third, it's a networked vehicle sharing information with other cars about its location and speed.
Finally, it can drive itself. That means that you don't need to go to your car, it can come to you, pick you up and take you wherever you want to go.
GM is planning to experiment with some aspects of En-V technology in cars that will be tested in China's Tianjin Eco-City, which is currently under construction.The Chinese test-cars may or may not look like giant Easter eggs.

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Hiriko is a Basque word meaning "Urban" and, like the EN-V, this car is a intended for use as a shared resource in crowded urban environments. It's designed to take up minimal space, especially when parked.
When parking, the back wheels move up while the rest of the body pitches forward onto its nose. The driver then opens the clear canopy and steps out the front.Several of these cars which were developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are being produced for crash testing. And assuming that goes well, the Hiriko Folding Car will be used in a pilot program in the Basque region of Northwestern Spain next year.


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Toyota took a simpler approach to the car sharing philosophy and should have programs in a couple of west coast cities operating late this year.
Instead of creating a teeny electric car from scratch, Toyota will introduce a short-range plug-in version of the gasoline powered Scion iQ that's already going on sale across the U.S. this year.
The battery-powered iQ EV will have a range of less than 50 miles. That's far less than most people drive in a typical day.But it's short enough that the iQ EV probably wouldn't sell well to ordinary consumers. Instead, Toyota will put this car into car-sharing programs in big cities where it will offer an environmentally-friendly alternative to car ownership for people with just occasional errands to run.




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Car2Go, a subsidiary of Germany's Daimler, is a car-sharing service that's up and running in two American cities now -- there are more overseas -- and it presents a model of the sort of car-sharing system that other automakers are looking forward to.
Car2Go allows users to reserve cars but it also allows for more flexible use. Car2Go users can hop into one of the service's cars wherever they see one available, drive it where they like. then park it wherever they want within the system's roughly 50 mile boundary zone.
In the U.S., the service uses Smart ForTwos -- gasoline-powered ones in Austin, Tex, and electric ones in San Diego. The Austin program, which started in 2009, has about 21,000 participants sharing roughly 300 cars.

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