Do you, by chance, happen to remember this wild motorcycle rain canopy? A custom builder and YouTuber who goes by the name Meanwhile In The Garage built it in 2024.
And, I mean, who wouldn't like to stay dry in the rain? Though I have to say, as a rider who also wears eyeglasses on a daily basis, I've dealt with enough foggy lenses and helmet visors to suspect this entire thing might end up impossible to see out of, depending on the weather. But maybe I'm wrong, and he's got vents built in to keep that from happening. Or maybe he Pinlocked the whole thing? Just because I'm unclear on his fog mitigation methods doesn't mean the canopy is similarly unclear, but I digress.
It's a new year, so MWiG is up to new projects. Or combining old projects into new projects, in a sort of real-world Minecraft-style evolutionary building process. What do you get when you combine that moto canopy and MWiG's wild go-kart design? Oh, and you give it an EV motor, too?
You get the world's tiniest EV car design, that's what. Check this thing out.
Action cams can do some strange things with perspective, but I swear there are points in this video where it looks like this thing isn't much bigger than a shopping cart. To further blur the lines, he's stuck a little detachable wheeled cooler on the back, which makes it super easy to pull up to your favorite grocery store in this little car, do a bit of shopping, and then roll back home in your tiny EV car. And hey, look; it even fits inside an elevator!
If this canopy looked a bit strange on a motorcycle, it actually ends up looking kind of sleekly, and futuristically utilitarian when slapped on top of this go-kart design. Almost a bit like an evolution of a Jetsonsesque space bubble, only in a roadgoing form. Not exactly the same, mind you; but definitely somewhere on the family tree that eventually gets to the spacecar version.
Is this like the urban version of a UTV? Maybe. Top speed is around 40-ish miles per hour, and it's not clear what kind of range it has. But if you lived (and worked, and ran errands in) a small enough radius, something like this might come in pretty useful. What do you think, would you roll up to your daily errands in something like this? Let us know in the comments.
