And the whole car would fold up — such that seven vehicles could fit into two normal-sized parking spaces. The cars would be shared, not owned — parked at train stations where people could ...

Parking is about to get a lot easier, as long as you don’t mind driving a car that folds in the middle. Developed over the past four years by MIT, the Hiriko is an electric microcar that has the ...

Making a car that can fold itself isn't as simple as adding some hinges; the Hiriko has a single, upward-swinging windshield instead of doors and each of the Hiriko's four wheels contain a drive ...

As part of the BBC's What If? season, Theo Leggett has been looking at high-tech solutions to traffic problems, including a car that folds itself to fit in a smaller space.

Engineers at MIT developed an electric, shareable car that would fold to conserve parking spaces. A prototype was made for production in Europe.... How A Folding Electric Vehicle Went From Car Of ...