As every year the show in Los Angeles organized a design competition on a specific topic. For this 2010 edition, to be held in November, this is the car «ultra light» (less than 500 kg). To meet the challenge, the design studios at General Motors, Honda, Daimler (Maybach, Mercedes, Smart), Mazda, Nissan, Toyota and Volvo, Composite materials have imagined (even organic) and vehicles driven by an electric propulsionor compressed air. The objective was to combine design and small footprint.
The advanced design studio at General Motors in California has created the Cadillac Aera (Aero + Era). It is a 2 +2 coupe with a range of 1,000 miles (1600 km), which is powered by compressed air. GM evokes a Pneumatic Drive System (PDS). Aera is coated with a body structure shaped polyhedron (3D geometric shape with flat faces that intersect along the straight edges) and a thin layer of polymers. Optimizes all the weight, while emphasizing safety and aerodynamics. Inside the cells of pressurized air protect the occupants, like the airbags of the Mars Rover Vehicle developed by NASA.
Used Honda has aussi icts advanced design studio in California for the Air concept. The Vehicle Of The Future is Inspired by the «roller coaster (roller coaster) and required to skydive. Like the Cadillac, Concept uses compressed air and a pneumatic air system, hence the Name» The Pow [air] of dreams. "Autonomy IS 100 miles (160 km) am and is a fun vehicle to drive Honda says.
Daimler has participated in strength with no less than three brands in this contest: Maybach, Mercedes and Smart. We really did not expect to see Maybach, the brand ultra high-end offering a "rickshaw". But the rickshaw was invented in fact the Japanese in Tokyo in 1870. Developed countries of the rising sun, the concept is called DRS «Den-Riki-Sha», which means electric rickshaw. This futuristic vehicle for cities in developing has a gyroscopic system type Segway is controlled by computer and connects to the infrastructure of the mega-cities. An original way to move the heart of the megalopolis of tomorrow.
Mazda USA has responded to competition with the MX-0, a vehicle typed sport that incorporates several elements besides the MX-5. Champion of relief, the Japanese manufacturer has designed an ultra-light craft flying over it in motion. Powered by electric motors with high torque, the MX-0 (zero emission as course) accelerates hard and is very handy.
A team from the advanced design studio in California Mercedes-Benz has developed the Biome. As its name suggests, this vehicle uses technology from nature to be lightweight and fit into the eco-system. It runs on solar power. Each Biome is born in a nursery Mercedes-Benz from two seeds. One, with the DNA of the firm to the star, is for the interior and the other is for outside. The seeds of biomass are genetically designed to meet customer expectations. If we are really Mercos embarks GM .. In addition, biomass stores the energy received by the sun in a liquid form, it can restore the BoNectar4534 trees.
Nissan Design America offers us iV. It is a lightweight sports car that uses synthetic organic materials. It's like Mercedes, the Japanese cultivated components of the car as a farm. Each room in the Nissan iV is renewable and ultra-light. The builder was inspired by the ivy and the spider web to develop a structure in bio-polymers, flexible and robust. Nissan uses a motor in the wheels of the type of Michelin Active Wheel with propulsion and suspension.
Designed in Germany, the Smart 454 is to my taste the least spectacular creation. Its shape reminds me of an old concept of Matra Automobile's heyday (the photo) and even Zooop Coqueline of Courreges. The most innovative aspect is really about manufacturing by robots as caring as grandmothers who knit a sweater. The Smart Granny Robots are capable of complex shapes from carbon fiber.
Produced by the design team based in the U.S., Toyota named Nori seaweed that is used to enclose Maki. And for good reason, his body is a mixture of algae and carbon fiber. The concept is distinguished by a structure that unites in a single assembly (Podular form) body and chassis, combining strength, lightness and aesthetics. The car is propelled by electric motors in each wheel and incorporates solar panels.
And finally, Volvo has developed the U.S. Air Motion Concept. This concept uses compressed air, as at GM and Honda. Turbines recover energy from the wind and convert it into electricity to compress air. And there is no need of cooling system. Volvo Air Motion combines Scandinavian design to another driving pleasure, and more environmentally-responsible «in the Wind» ...
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