Car elevator
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{{Short description|Elevator designed for the vertical transportation of vehicles}}
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A car elevator or vehicle elevator is an elevator designed for the vertical transportation of vehicles inside buildings, so increasing the number of vehicles that can be parked in parking lots and parking garages. Where real estate is costly, these car parking systems can reduce overall costs by using less land to park the same number of cars.{{Cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/03/a-guide-for-the-99-what-is-a-car-elevator-and-why-does-mitt-need-one/255134/ |title=A Guide for the 99%: What Is a Car Elevator and Why Does Mitt Need One? |last=Graham |first=David A. |date=March 27, 2012 |website=The Atlantic}}
Vehicle lifts, which lift a car at its center of gravity, are used in garages and repair shops and are designed to allow access to a car's undercarriage for repair.{{Cite book |isbn=9780766862722 |pages=250|title=Auto Body Repair Technology|last1=Duffy|first1=James E.|last2=Scharff|first2=Robert|year=2003|publisher=Thomson/Delmar Learning }}
Examples
American politician and former presidential candidate Mitt Romney included a car elevator in his 2008 proposal for rebuilding his beach house in La Jolla, San Diego. The elevator is intended to transport cars between floors in a planned split-level, four-vehicle garage.{{Cite web |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2012/03/romneys-4-car-fantasy-home-074518 |title=Romney's 4-car fantasy home |last=Epstein |first=Reid J. |date=March 27, 2012 |website=Politico}} Romney received final approval for the project in October 2013, after an appeal against San Diego's approval of the project was dismissed.{{Cite web |url=http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/11/mitt-romney-gets-his-car-elevator/ |title=Mitt Romney gets his car elevator |last1=Koenig |first1=Bryan |last2=Johnston |first2=Chuck |website=CNN |date=October 11, 2013 |access-date=October 6, 2019 |archive-date=November 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191121140643/http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/11/mitt-romney-gets-his-car-elevator/ |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2015/01/27/mitt-romney-began-building-expensive-homes-after-his-loss-part-real-estate-makeover/CeKp2sd0JcWA6URLhmJzxM/story.html |title=Romney built expensive homes after 2012 loss |last=Viser |first=Matt |date=January 28, 2015 |website=The Boston Globe}}
The Porsche Design Tower, a high-rise residential building with 132 units in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, near Miami, contains three car elevators. The elevators, named "Dezervators" after building developer Gil Dezer, transport cars up to parking spaces directly connected to each apartment unit. The elevators are in circular glass structures and rotate to align with the correct car parking space, allowing residents to exit directly from their cars to their apartments. The building opened in 2017.{{Cite web |url=https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/what-its-really-ride-worlds-most-advanced-car-elevator-266340/ |title=What it's Really Like to Ride the World's Most Advanced Car Elevator |last=Mastine-Frost |first=Justin |date=April 25, 2017 |website=Robb Report}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/28/miamis-porsche-design-tower-drive-your-car-right-into-your-apartment.html |title=Penthouse for your Porsche: This luxe Miami high-rise comes with a car elevator so you can drive right into your living room |last=Caposele |first=John |date=September 28, 2017 |website=CNBC}} Another nearby building in Sunny Isles Beach, the Bentley Residences, uses the same technology in a slightly larger building. It will have more automobile capacity with four car elevators and be the tallest building in Sunny Isles Beach.
The Boring Company, a company owned by entrepreneur Elon Musk, built a prototype car elevator in 2017.{{Cite web |url=https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/7/26/16031262/elon-must-boring-tunnel-elevator |title=Elon Musk reveals Boring car elevator |last=Savov |first=Vlad |date=July 26, 2017 |website=The Verge}} In 2018, the company received permission from the Hawthorne, California city council to construct a car elevator designed to connect an above-ground garage to the Boring Test Tunnel, an underground test tunnel. The Boring Company intends to use the test tunnel and elevator for research and development of a proposed underground Hyperloop system designed to solve traffic congestion in Los Angeles.{{Cite web |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/12/boring-company-earns-approval-for-futuristic-garage/ |title=Elon Musk's Boring Company earns approval for futuristic garage that would connect to underground commuter tunnel |last=Rosenfeld |first=David |date=September 12, 2018 |website=The Mercury News}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnel-loop-lift/ |title=An elevator in your garage? Boring Company gets OK to test Loop Lift from tunnel |last=Brown |first=Bruce |date=September 16, 2018 |website=Digital Trends}}
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