Direct from the minds of Yamaha is a 4-wheel machine that no one would confuse with a car… it’s a four-wheeled motorcycle!
Yamaha’s Hybrid Motorcycle Answer
Yamaha’s Tesseract is a hybrid powered by both a V-Twin gas powerplant and an electric motor. The suspension is what they call a “dual-scythe” which leans while cornering… just like we do on 2 wheels. Taken from the Piaggio MP3 page, it also has a dual arm lock to keep the Tesseract upright when stopped.
Here’s a machine that could convince car fans to get on their 4-wheel bike.
It seems like the run on gas prices has many manufacturers rethinking their future product mix. From 1 wheel to 4 wheels and from gas to electric, engineers are burning the midnight oil to determine what can benefit the consumer as well as what the consumer will purchase.
Source: AutoBlog
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