So you’re zipping down the highway in your new, sleek, hydrogen-powered ZeroFuel car and you suddenly see the fuel gauge glowing red. Uh oh.
Well, no matter. Those two cups of coffee and that 44oz Big Gulp you had and that are coming back to haunt you will save the day.
How?
Read More: ZeroFuel: the Hydrogen Car Powered by Used Big Gulps and Coffee
The Royal College of Art has been at the forefront of futuristic and sustainable transport design in academic teaching for a long time. Every year, their students come up with new and innovative ideas for transportation.
Read More: Mobility 2050: The Royal College of Arts Students Envision Future Transportation
John is a fuel economy technical expert at the Ford Motor Company and a member of the forums at EcoModder, good friends of Zoomilife. By day, he’s a Ford Engineer, by night… a HyperRocket building genius.
Read More: Ford Engineer Invents HyperRocket in Spare Time: 125mpg, 100+mph
The Arcimoto is a 3-wheeled electric vehicle capable of 50mph, 30 miles’ range on a charge, and seats one. It’s an urban commuter that takes about 6 hours to charge to full. The team began work last year on the concept and have now built a fully-operational test mule.
Read More: The Electric Arcimoto Gets a Test Drive
When I wrote about this concept, used as a training exercise for 150 of Mercedes’ up-and-comers, I ended the article with “Really cool, even if it will never actually exist.” Well, I’m eating crow now because the F-Cell Roadster does exist as a prototype and recently went on a tour through Germany on the route that Daimler’s original Bertha Benz drove in 1888.
Read More: Mercedes-Benz F-Cell Roadster Is Real: Hits the Road in Germany
Meet the ecoF3, a race car designed by a British Team. The car is made of vegetables and it runs on chocolate. Really, no foolin.
To no one’s surprise, Scion announced the Scion iQ Concept, which is basically a Toyota iQ with some small body changes. The paint is very different, true to Scion’s brand, but for the most part, it’s an iQ.
Read More: NY Auto Show: Scion Announces New EV
At first glance, you see this F-CELL Roadster and say “what the…?” Then you either like it or hate it. Personally, I really like it. This is one of the coolest concepts I’ve seen in a long time. The design is from junior employees at Mercedes who used the project as a learning exercise–the up-and-comer’s OTJ training.
Read More: The Futuristic Carriage F-Cell Roadster from Mercedes-Benz
The upcoming Geneva Auto Show in March will feature another interesting concept car unveiling. This one, from Rinspeed (a Swiss carmaker), is called the iChange.
Read More: Rinspeed to Unveil Electric Concept Car in Geneva
Hoyoung Jo, Jinseok Song, and Kyuwon Kim, students at Seoul National Unversity of Technology are design students. They’ve come up with a concept car/dune-buggy for the 2009 Michelin Challenge Design Competition. They’re calling it the Hurricane.
Read More: Hurricane Recyclable Electric Car Concept
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