Seeing a skinny frame on the car is not unusual. In most cases, it is installed on a backup wheel to provide space while the other three have full -sized tires. But things become really strange when all four wheels look like this. A Peugeot 208 was recently monitored in a parking lot in Marseille, and it appears to be four backup wheels. However, Supermini was actually equipped with something called “global wheel”, which was sold by the French company Enovcar.
As it seems strange, there is a completely good reason for this product. He is designed for repair shops to move the frozen cars in another way. If the brakes are stuck or transmission failure, how can the car move? The case of another use is when the owner wants to renew the original wheels. It is also useful for electric cars with completely dead batteries. Although Peugeot sells 208 as EV, this sub -orphans is a three -cylinder gas engine everywhere.
Photo by: ParkinMarseille
“Universal Wheel” is attached to a spinned axis with 10 screws. It works on compounds with four hazel nucleus, such as this peugeot, or with five. EnovCar warns that cars should not be transported at more than 5 miles per hour (8 km/h). There is also a rotor mode, which includes adding a rotating loop to push or pull the car at less than 2 mph (3 km/h). The switch between the conditions of the cylinder and the rotation takes about 30 seconds. Another restriction is weight: the maximum pregnancy for each wheel is 2200 pounds (1000 kg), and the wheel itself weighs 22 pounds (10 kilograms).
Enovcar is not the only company that sells this type of product. Our colleagues in Automated pilot The Guni X wheel, which is marketed as a solution to “re -mode global cars”. It is also designed to transport vehicles with damaged wheels, brakes or transmission. The company that sells them is also a good -term storage solution, while maintaining the original wheels when the car will not be driven for a long time.
