Some design variation for the final tape rendering... apathically searching for the lines.
...more to come this weekend.
Some details on the concept of my team: We simply took a deep look at what the megacity scenario in 2022 would offer, and what it will suffer from.
Our conclusion:
You still are in the need of individual motorized mobility at all? Will say it does not satisfy you to take advantage of the nice options of an (of course) optimised and heavily improved public transport system, your own feet or your bicycle? Then you are in the need of something that is compact and extremly agile, energy efficient in dynamic movement and can handle your stuff you carry with you (thats why you really should use a car in cities today already, not only because you're a lazy boy). But even more important is the fact that traffic in big cities has to flow. It already is the biggest issue in all cities. And we as road users can only do one thing, to improve the flow - talk to each other. And to ease that one up, we are about to create a car that should hopefully come up with some solutions, that help you as driver to interact with the people outside your shell.
To sum up:
- 3 stage interaction concept:
1. Fully synchronised traffic shaping system (navi) with uplink to Galileo and LTE (LongTermEvo Internetuplink) as a first stage communication/interaction platform (before on route/while on route)
2. LED Panels within the front, rear bumper and side - as the second stage communication platform (indirect interaction user <-> while on route, while parking)
3. Massive greenhouse, no B-Pillar and see through A-Pillar for good overview and as the third stage comm. platform (better direct interaction with other road users)
- Aluminium-structured unibody frame as a shell around the glassy "core" of the car
- scratch resistant coating/covering
- short wheelbase, small overhangs
- 2+2 Seats - second seat row (reverse mounted) also shapes the trunk floor
- Orbital wheels with "vector drive" functionality (lets you slide your car sideways for fast-ass parking action and no parking space loss or lane switch in traffic jams)
- 4 wheel steering
- serial hybrid drive, (fuel powered generator (SNG-Wankel?), lightweight buffer supercapacitors, two main drivemotors) to minimize weight (fuel has a several times higher energy density than any accupack) and to maximize 'driveshaft to wheel' efficiency in common city stop & go etc. pp
- elegant & sporty but not racecar oriented
So far... happy rendering the weekend away. ;-)
