Czech company Katanga has created VM45, a motorized velomobile – a human-powered vehicle that combines elements of a bicycle and an enclosed aerodynamic shell – with four wheels and a body made of milled foam. Polyurethane foam was used for the body, which the design team had to mill into several smaller portions due to its large size. They glued them all together in the end to encase the four-wheeled bicycle, or quad-cycle, that makes up the motorized velomobile VM45

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    Links from the article:
    https://www.velomobiel.nl/quatrevelo/ - €10300

    Katanga VM45 - guestimated price: 11,000 EUR before VAT for the variant without a motor and around 13,000 EUR before VAT for the motorized version.

    Basic physics: each axle adds resistance. There is a 3 wheel ‘tadpole’ design, so I’m wondering what the advantage of 4 wheels would be.