The AKO trike looks halfway between a car & a bike, and feels like riding an airplane - Yanko Design

Looks like a buggy with the insides of a motorcycle, the AKO is an electric inverse leaning trike designed to make riding thrilling over again. Designed to seat two people, the AKO'southward stylings aren't like about 2-person vehicles. With 2 wheels on the front end and one on the back, and with a body that its designers describe as most UFO-like, AKO'due south a head turner. The three-wheeled electric vehicles comes with a stellar 300km range, although in that location's no word on what the top speed is here. Weighing just over 500 kilograms, the AKO comes with a peak motor output power of 140 kW, which might sound impressive, simply not as much equally how you operate the AKO.

With ii wheels on the front, y'all'd expect the AKO to have a steering system like a car or a quad-bike, but no… rather than just simply turn wheels, AKO leans sideways, a design feature that non just mimics how motorsport bikes turn, but as well gives you a feeling of beingness one with the vehicle equally it glides on the tarmac, imparting an almost aeroplane-similar experience to the riders. "The body leaning solution is based on pure mechanics (MB Lifejet concept is based on hydraulics) thus making it fashion cheaper to develop and light. We filed a patent for this and correct now the second prototype is getting manner more refined parts compared to the prototype zero", says Artūras Mikalauskas, engineer at the Lithuania-based startup behind the AKO. The car currently exists just as a patent-awaiting proof-of-concept, and should enter its pre-sale phase shortly.

Designer: Team AKO