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Designer Bo Zolland has come up with an electric car he’s calling the Delithium. It’s a two-seater hot-rod with a lot of cool, retro styling - and it’s all electric.

Read More: Delithium - Futuristic Performance Hot Rod Design

So you’re zipping down the highway in your new, sleek, hydrogen-powered ZeroFuel car and you suddenly see the fuel gauge glowing red. Uh oh.

Well, no matter. Those two cups of coffee and that 44oz Big Gulp you had and that are coming back to haunt you will save the day.

How?

Read More: ZeroFuel: the Hydrogen Car Powered by Used Big Gulps and Coffee

The Royal College of Art has been at the forefront of futuristic and sustainable transport design in academic teaching for a long time. Every year, their students come up with new and innovative ideas for transportation.

Read More: Mobility 2050: The Royal College of Arts Students Envision Future Transportation

John is a fuel economy technical expert at the Ford Motor Company and a member of the forums at EcoModder, good friends of Zoomilife. By day, he’s a Ford Engineer, by night… a HyperRocket building genius.

Read More: Ford Engineer Invents HyperRocket in Spare Time: 125mpg, 100+mph

The Arcimoto is a 3-wheeled electric vehicle capable of 50mph, 30 miles’ range on a charge, and seats one. It’s an urban commuter that takes about 6 hours to charge to full. The team began work last year on the concept and have now built a fully-operational test mule.

Read More: The Electric Arcimoto Gets a Test Drive

When I wrote about this concept, used as a training exercise for 150 of Mercedes’ up-and-comers, I ended the article with “Really cool, even if it will never actually exist.” Well, I’m eating crow now because the F-Cell Roadster does exist as a prototype and recently went on a tour through Germany on the route that Daimler’s original Bertha Benz drove in 1888.