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News: Breakthrough electric car maker turns to SolidWorks to refine unique high-performance, traffic-reducing design

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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