Moovie concept: Personal electric vehicle with two, three wheel driving modes

Imagined by Han Jing, the Moovie is a zero emission personal electric vehicle concept. The design has two driving modes: two wheel and three wheel mode to meet individual needs of different commuters. The two wheel is a small body mode and is...

Imagined by Han Jing, the Moovie is a zero emission personal electric vehicle concept. The design has two driving modes: two wheel and three wheel mode to meet individual needs of different commuters. The two wheel is a small body mode and is intended to face the narrow and overcrowded urban roads. In this mode the vehicle is fully capable to commute you through narrow passages in slow speeds and driver can drive the vehicle in the intelligent automatic drive mode which can control the distances between vehicles and driving line.

On the other, three wheel mode can provide the high speed driving fun for the race enthusiasts. The customers have been given with the options to choose between two or three wheel modes. As the vehicle is based on the future internet technology, the driver can share massages with friends and other drivers and the vehicle’s wheel display shows the images or messages sent to the vehicle. Moovie is modern vehicle for the quick generations and is not merely a moving tool but stylish and adds to their personality.

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Andrew Chirkova envisions a muscular Racing Rolls Royce concept

With the intentions to make a Racing Rolls Royce car, designer Andrew Chirkova imagines a design with a mid-engine layout. Andrew wanted a muscular car that would stand firmly on the wheels and the road. The designer has imagined simple and clear.

With the intentions to make a Racing Rolls Royce car, designer Andrew Chirkova imagines a design with a mid-engine layout. Andrew wanted a muscular car that would stand firmly on the wheels and the road. The designer has imagined simple and clear concept car dominated by the proportions of the car and interesting unusual details. But to those who have a linking for the racing cars, it’s little disappointing that Racing Rolls Royce is merely a concept sans any technical details but the enthusiasts can check out the images of this fabulous concept.

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EV 2020 Concept: A two-seat vehicle that reflects the essence of future transport

Industrial designer, Robin Long, with the intention to provide a vehicle that meets the future needs and is comfortable, clean and green at the same time, developed the EV 2020 that can provide the commuters and easy travel through congested cities,..

Industrial designer, Robin Long, with the intention to provide a vehicle that meets the future needs and is comfortable, clean and green at the same time, developed the EV 2020 that can provide the commuters and easy travel through congested cities, narrow paths and suburbs. In order to make this vehicle more user-friendly and to make the travel more relaxing, the vehicle has been made autonomous and is regulated by a bevy of sensors that deliver information into the vehicle’s intelligent processor to help vehicle travel unaided by the user. The aesthetics of this two seater vehicle came from the simple and the bold surfaces to create a design that adds to personality and character.

The vehicle’s sill lowers itself by a set amount to ease entrance. The sill rises and lowers its front sill by utilizing pneumatic pressure. The vehicle is equipped with the NAV-i Driver system that makes uses of onboard sensors about the vehicle and GPS to drive the vehicle without any input from the driver other than telling it about the destination. The vehicle is designed for the ease and unlike the other electric vehicles; EV 2020 has battery cells that are designed to be replaced than recharged when power runs out. Batteries can be replaced at any station meant for the purpose.

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Rocket Car: A Coke and Mentos powered car

Looking for the alternative sources of fuel is a herculean task that needs perspicuity and above all a lot of patience. And the chaps from the Maine have shown it in plenty. Well, Coca-Cola and Mentos breath mints when mixed together, Coke will...

Looking for the alternative sources of fuel is a herculean task that needs perspicuity and above all a lot of patience. And the chaps from the Maine have shown it in plenty. Well, Coca-Cola and Mentos breath mints when mixed together, Coke will bubble and shoot up in the air is nothing new to all of us. However, the Main guys claim that they’ve harnessed that power to run the Rocket car. The vehicle is created by Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz of Buckfield features a utility trailer at the rear and a modified bike at the front. And the power from the chemical reaction has been harnessed, and very well harnessed, to roll the Rocket Car out of a hangar to a distance mark of 221 feet.

The Rocket car has 108 two-liter bottles of Coke Zero and 648 Mentos tablets and uses a piston mechanism wherein a six foot long rod sits inside a six-foot long tube attached to each bottle of Coke Zero. When the mentos tablets drop into the soda, the pressure press the road to come out of the tube and while 108 rods pushing at the same time generates a lot of power. The power further push against the a wall braced with 3,600 pounds of cement blocks and in this way the force is directed to roll the three wheeled Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car forward.

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Voglreiter Auto Residence: Car-shaped house which is sustainable but not mobile

For all the die hard fans who live and breathe autos this unusual car house is the ultimate thing that will bring them closer to their auto obsession. This incredible car house on the border of a nature preserve in Gnigl near Salzburg, Austria is...

For all the die hard fans who live and breathe autos this unusual car house is the ultimate thing that will bring them closer to their auto obsession. This incredible car house on the border of a nature preserve in Gnigl near Salzburg, Austria is named Auto Residence and is German designer Markus Voglreiter imagination. From the appearance it may look like a house on the wheels to many eyes, but it isn’t mobile one as the wheels are just for show. The car shaped house is big enough to accommodate two generations of families in two separate portions of the vehicle and features sustainable and energy-saving technology that includes a “3 liter” energy efficient heating and insulation technique that optimizes all current building technologies, drastically reducing energy consumption. Apart from these, Auto Residence has all the comforts that come with a common looking residence.

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Jeff Koon’s BMW Art Car unveiled at Center Popidou

After the initial teaser, Jeff Koon’s BMW Art Car is finally unveiled this week at the Centre Popidou in Paris. For the making of this 17th BMW Art Car since the program's creation in 1977, Koon studied explosions, race cars, and speed in building..

After the initial teaser, Jeff Koon’s BMW Art Car is finally unveiled this week at the Centre Popidou in Paris. For the making of this 17th BMW Art Car since the program’s creation in 1977, Koon studied explosions, race cars, and speed in building his inspiration for the car. The car was placed in the Center Pompidou – the same place where Roy Lichtenstein back in 1977 first presented and signed his Art Car and as per BMW it is to race where the first rolling pieces of art by legendary artists raced – at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France on June 12-13, 2010.

Koon’s BMW M3 GT2 art car with his long, wind-swept, brightly colored brush strokes are meant to appeal to our most basic notions of “power, motion and bursting energy”. Its silver interior along with the powerful exterior design, and dynamic appearance will surely force people to think. The exterior design was printed on vinyl that was further wrapped around the car. On the other, two layers of clear-coat were applied to the wrap, which can also be seen on the car’s spare parts.

BMW art car was produced under Koons’ direct guidance and supervision and in assistance with the BMW engineers and designers at Schmid Design, Bavaria. The car has been made using light material without interfering with the race car’s aerodynamics and weight. CAD designs were translated from 3D into 2D for printing hundreds of lines of Koons’ design onto the car. The car is open for the public view free of charge in the Forum of the Center Pompidou.

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Wind powered car moves faster than the wind

Built by Rick Cavallaro and his friend, this wind-powered vehicle outruns the wind. In a test carried out last week, the car hit a top speed 2.86 times faster than the wind. Wind powered car with a 17-foot-tall propeller is basically an unusual...

Built by Rick Cavallaro and his friend, this wind-powered vehicle outruns the wind. In a test carried out last week, the car hit a top speed 2.86 times faster than the wind. Wind powered car with a 17-foot-tall propeller is basically an unusual contraption with an aerodynamic foam chassis attached to a wind turbine. Using wind as an external power source, the car’s propeller produces enough thrust to push the car’s wheels beyond the speed of the wind. The team took almost a year in designing a transmission system that could transfer power from the wheels to the propeller. And to ensure there is no paucity of funds in the mission, Google and Joby Energy provided the necessary funding to build the vehicle with San Jose State University aerodynamics department.

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