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Smart Dock + go's Third Axle

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Technical Details Regarding dock+GO are scant, but from what we can glean, Rinspeeds supplemental axle carries a box that docks to the rear of a Smart, converting the conventional 4·wheeled city cruiser into a 6-wheeler. While the Dock Go should increase the electric Smart’s contact patch (not that it needs it), the true efficacy of the automotive “backpack," or rickshaw, comes from what can be stored in it. Rinspeed cites a heated box for pizza deliveries as an example, but where the Dock Go’s potential glows, electrically, is in its application as a range extender by carrying an auxiliary engine, Fuel cell or battery pack. Think Mophie for the iPhone, only bigger. While it sounds like far-fetched sci-H stufii, Rinspeed has announced that a Dock+Go concept will be revealed at the 2012 Geneva Auto Show.