{"id":1067,"date":"2014-04-28T15:28:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T13:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2015-10-13T23:55:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T21:55:30","slug":"eight-wheeler-cargo-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2014\/04\/eight-wheeler-cargo-cycle.html","title":{"rendered":"Eight-Wheeler Cargo Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/8wheeler-cargo-bike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1068\" src=\"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/8wheeler-cargo-bike.jpg\" alt=\"8wheeler cargo bike\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/8wheeler-cargo-bike.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/8wheeler-cargo-bike-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a>Think you need a car or a van to move large and heavy stuff around? Think again. This eight-wheeler cargo cycle features a 10 m2 bamboo loading platform and a 450 kg loading capacity. The chassis is based on that of a concrete mixer. The vehicle has four-wheel steering and independent wheel suspension. With two drivers it achieves an average speed of 10 &#8211; 15 km\/h, which could be further increased by the use of electric motors.<\/p>\n<p>The cargo cycle was designed and built by Berliner Nico Jungel. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicojungel.net\/space.html\" target=\"_blank\">Find more pictures and videos at his website<\/a>. The vehicle was spotted at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cargobikefestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Cargo Bike Festival<\/a> in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cargobikefestival.com\/2014\/04\/first-pictures-of-international-cargo.html\" target=\"_blank\">all pictures of the event<\/a> (including more images of the 8-wheeler). Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowtechmagazine.com\/2012\/09\/jobs-of-the-future-cargo-cyclist.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cargo cyclists replace truck drivers on European city streets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think you need a car or a van to move large and heavy stuff around? Think again. This eight-wheeler cargo cycle features a 10 m2 bamboo loading platform and a 450 kg loading capacity. The chassis is based on that of a concrete mixer. The vehicle has four-wheel steering and independent wheel suspension. With two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[94,50,14,112,55,115,315,150,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}