Parallel parking may become a thing of the past if more of these folding cars go from concept to reality. The Hiriko EV has been given the green light on a miniscule production run (more on that later ...

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 ...

Remember the folding car? If you’re of a certain age — or just watch a lot of Hulu or Nick at Nite — you probably have the folding (and flying) space car from the Jetsons emblazoned in your mind. It’s ...

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Looking for a parking space for hours at a busy shopping mall or being stuck on roads jammed with cars releasing large amounts of carbon dioxide are all-too-familiar scenes for city dwellers. A group ...

We’ve seen folding cars before, but a group of researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have designed an electric vehicle that curls up like an armadillo. The ...

A full-sized prototype of the Hiriko (Basque for “urban”) folding electric car was unveiled in front of the European Union Commission chief in Brussels yesterday. The tiny vehicle is the commercial ...

How many times have you driven around and around a block looking for a parking space on a busy city street? MIT has unveiled a two-seater electric car that is not only small and compact, but when you ...

Hyundai has filed a patent for a foldable vehicle and it sounds as crazy as you think. The patent was published early on Thursday but was originally filed in late 2014. According to the patent filing, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The GM-backed CityCar prototype is a lightweight electric vehicle that’s cheap to ...

Space-saving electric vehicles could begin to zip around European roads as early as this summer. But will they convince commuters to leave their cars at home? Motorists must be a determined bunch.