The Bamgoo is an electric car weighing just 60kg with a 50km range and a body made from bamboo.

Crumple zone? Yes, it starts here at the front, and ends here, at the rear of the car

Already a basket case

Bamboo scaffolding

It is so cheap you can by tree for the price of one.







































(before you say it, bamboo is not a tree but a member of the grass family)

Wood you buy one?


Sorry....

I find the 60kg hard to believe, but the idea of a wicker monocoque seems like a good one, especially in a car that wasn't going to go fast to enough to make rigidity a real issue. They use it for hot air balloon baskets

John

A Mars bar for the first person to count how many triangles there are.

That will set a new Euro NCAP record and a popular youtube video of the test.

I dont think it will hold the rain out too well



Does it come with a CD player?

Anyone care to respond to the point made earlier about wicker moncoques? Seems a shame to miss the chance to talk about alternative materials by getting the subject smothered in piss-takes

John

Not convinced that wicker/woven bamboo by itself would be suitable for a monocoque. The nature of it's construction means it has little rigidity, even though it does have reasonable strength.

As part of a composite material it might work quite well however, just like the Trabants cotton based composite.

But for a small, electric powered vehicle that has no sporting pretensions, I reckon it could work very well.

In fact, a bit of flexing might provide some or all of the required suspension movement?