Rail Meets Road With the TriTrack EV

From Wired, January 1, 2009...

The Progressive Automotive X-Prize and its promise of $10 million to whoever develops a 100 mpg car has drawn some pretty wild ideas, but the bullet-shaped TriTrack electric car designed by Roane Inventions takes the cake.

TriTrack combines the versatility of a car with the speed -- and cost -- of light rail in an electric three-wheeler you can drive on the street or ride on an elevated monorail at speeds reaching 180 mph. It's purely a concept at this point, and given that it would cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build the monorail in just one city, it's likely to stay that way. But inventor Jerry Roane insists TriTrack is a viable alternative to internal combustion.

“This concept is not just some guy tinkering in a garage," Roane says. "Our 10.5 acre site in Georgetown, Texas, is fully equipped and has several technologists poised to make this a reality.”

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