April 09, 2007
Breakthrough electric car maker turns to SolidWorks to refine
unique high-performance, traffic-reducing design
New Tango accelerates
like a Porsche, trumps gridlock like a motorcycle
CONCORD, Mass., April 9, 2007 – Green
cars are tame cars, right? Well, the Tango – a head-turning, lane-splitting,
all-electric two-seater that sprints from zero to 60 in four seconds – debunks
that inconvenient truth while tackling a part of the transportation problem
most alternative vehicles overlook: traffic congestion.
Now being redesigned and refined in
SolidWorks® 3D CAD software, the Tango travels two abreast with ease, safely
switches lanes through impossible gaps, blithely glides through gridlocked traffic,
and, at 39 inches wide, can park four to a space. On top of all that, George
Clooney bought the first one – and drives it regularly when staying at his Southern
California residence.
Commuter Cars of Spokane, Wash., outsourced
the initial Tango design to an engineering firm that used a hodgepodge of CAD
software and handed over a set of files that, while well-engineered, were a
disorganized mess, according to President Rick Woodbury, who dreamed up the
car concept while parked in an LA traffic jam.
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