b'Automotive | Engineer InnovationThe three wheel thing isnt anything that you say, Oh, its got to be three wheels, says Kroll. Its just the best package for light weighting the vehicle. If you run the analysis on the thing, youre eliminating 25 percent of the weight, which you dont need. And youre in a single-person vehicle. As youre driving, you turn the wheel and you dont even know theres just one wheel back there. Its sublime.Kroll points out that 83 percent of people commute by themselves so a single seater makes an awful lot of sense. He says it also provides the best driving experience.Ive spent the last 25 years in motorsports representing Indy 500 winners and all kinds of different drivers and all kinds of different series, and Ive been racing cars myself for five years, says Kroll. My preference is a single-seater car and theres a reason for that: Its the purest form of the driving experience. The SOLO offers the single-seater experience for the road for $15,500 (US). When you drive it, you get it. Its like before you had a smart phone, youd say, Why do I need one of those? But once you have it you cant live without it. This is a brilliant product and I predict were going sell as many SOLOs as Apple is selling iPhones.The benefit of using a single interfaceRich Hoyle, who is the principal engineer at Aligned CAE, was brought on in September 2015 as a direct contractor to Electra Meccanica. He worked on suspension and chassis design and general modeling and simulation for the SOLO vehicle.If you look at a vehicle developmentprogram, this was extremely rapid, says Hoyle. When I became involved in the project in September 2015, basically there had been some rudimentary surfacing done. We had the 2D sketch and the wheelbase to find the defined track, and that was pretty much it.One of the advantages of using NX and the fully integrated SimcenterTM 3D software is were not jumping between different tools for different activities so we can do our design and simulation work all in a single interface. We werent worrying about transferring data from tool A to tool B. That was a big benefit to us. 25'