City Car concept, Ross Lovegrove
Ross Lovegrove well known for his organic design has came up with a concept car in a TED speech he gave in 2005. I picked this to wrote about because I cannot find any articles online that talk about this car. Ross said that the traditional car is made up of 35,000 parts if one of the parts failed it could be ordering specialise part which could be a long waiting time. The less part of Ross’s car has ten times less than the conventional and run more efficient.
The outer shell made out of carbon fibre nylon pan, it open and close and there is no engine instead a solar panel and battery is located at the rear end for power. The battery remove like a formula one car wheel. You can take them off easily for storage and maintenance purpose. It is transparent so that the people can see you when you are inside, the car is slow and feminine stated Lovegrove just as nature intended, Lovegrove believes in nature and how it effects they way we do things, we will drive differently because we can see the person inside.
This is intended to be city car in a crowed environment a high power engine would not be idea. The hole at the front of the car is for the pole mechanism when you drove over it lift the car upwards so that the solar panel face towards the sky and become a street lamp at night.
It was also interesting to see this was turned down.
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