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The human-electric hybrid vehicle, ‘Imagine PS‘ (power station), which can run 100kph on the flat and 50kph uphill, is due to be commercially available next year.

The vehicle was developed by engineer Professor Charles Samuel Greenwood, who has been working on human-powered vehicles for over four decades, and has now developed a street legal sedan version carrying four people. He began working on human powered cars in 1968 as a way to tackle both unhealthy exhaust fumes and the unhealthy and overweight bodies of many drivers

If the four people are all cranking, the vehicle can run solely on human power, but it is also an electric plug-in. The chassis can be adapted to different styles and different types of batteries and future technologies without needing to replace the car.

The Imagine PS is built by HumanCar Inc.. The company claims that a senior citizen in reasonable shape would be able to manage the cranking easily, and it can be operated in electric power mode only or any combination of human and electric power.

The vehicle is expected to be available next year with a price of $15,000 and pre-orders can be made with a $50 100% refundable deposit. HumanCar Inc. said that production will begin after receiving 800 pre-orders. Now, they already have 100 orders.