Bombardier Embrio: take that, Segway!
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 07.25.05
Bombardier may be reviled by Treehuggers everywhere for inventing the Ski-doo and the Sea-doo, but if you like fast-moving vehicles they are pretty innovative. The new Embrio uses gyroscopes longditudinal stability and a little training wheel for starting and stopping. Of course, it is powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. ::Funfurde
UPDATE: Treehugger scans a lot of sites and reads a lot of papers. This item was in Forbes Magazine and we posted it, but readers have pointed out that it old and it is vaporware. In fact, Wired covered it in November 2003 and Seqway called it vaporware then. We apologise- it's that treehugger instinct to recycle.
This thing was in popsci or something in a "future of transportation" article two or three years ago.
That's from about 2003. It wasn't a working model then, still isn't. And there isn't any more information on this concept now, so I fail to see how this is news. It doesnt run on hydrogen, it probably isn't even a clay model. It looks rendered.
Yeah, that's definitely not rendered. It's a full blown model. I have one.
A fully blown model that is, not a Bombardier.
Some guy apparently made something like that a while back and brought it to the burning man festival. I'm guessing that his website it still up, but I don't have time to look for it. Perhaps a google search of > (without the > quotes) will turn it up.