Nissan’s electric cars

The past and the future of Nissan’s electric cars: from 1947 to iPhone apps — Autoblog Green
Nissan has made a big splash in the electric car world with its recent Leaf unveiling, but let’s not forget that the company has a long, long history with engine-free motoring. A new press release put out by the [...]

Small car for the future

Moville – A Green Drop In Ocean Of Futuristic Automobiles – The Design blog
Design contests aim to squeeze the best out of grey cells of creative thinkers who dare to give shape to their visions of a reliable future. One such contest is the 5th Peugeot Design Contest 2008 where Woo-Ram Lee of France conceptualized [...]

Car Sharing

Car Sharing – was the theme of a project last year. One of the outcomes from the project was this descripter – of the car sharing system – where the city was described as being composed of three zones. This is an interesting insight which explains car sharing as public transport and defines three different [...]

Car design in India

Automotive design gets ready for a greater role in India
The initial flow of companies setting up design centres has led to as many as 15 institutes introducing courses in automotive or transportation design in the country.
Auto design is also getting more classroom space in design centres that have traditionally focused on other industries.
The National Institute [...]

Bobby Benz

Now Everyone Can Drive A Mercedes…Well, Almost. | Mark’s Technology News
It’s not just adults that appreciate fine automobile design and that’s something Mercedes seems to have caught on to. Their latest creation is a limited edition, tot-sized, ride-on version of their SLK AMG called the Bobby Benz, which joins their smaller, made-to-order model cars aimed [...]

The future for GM is in these words

Fueling the Future | The American Prospect
More broadly, we should then ensure that, within a decade, every new car sold in America can run on flexible fuel. We can advance this goal by offering manufacturers a $100 tax credit for every flexible-fuel tank they install before the decade is up.
As my friend Tom Daschle details [...]

Edwin’s Muscle Car

This is Edwin’s Car Design for car sharing. The model is coming along really nicely.  Note the brake disc and shoe assembly.
Making the 1:10 Scale Model of the HSV Encore « Edwin Conan

Car Design for Car Sharing

Click on the image – to go to the blog – where you will get more details. In the blogs if you click on the images you will see the enlarged image.

John, Nathan, Aaron – (the image is from Aarons blog, you can also see the project on John’s and Nathan’s blog)

Gautam

Sameer

Lalit

Ryan

Edwin

What will the car of the future look like?

Imagine this: Sometime in the future – private ownership of cars may be curtailed.
Car will then be shared but not owned. This will fundamentally change the way companies think of and develop cars. Cars will not be seen as possessions but as modes of transport. Cars will in short be PUBLIC TRANSPORT.
What then will these [...]

Volkswagen 2028

Volkswagen 2028 > Volkswagen Company > Volkswagen Company > Volkswagen Australia

The cars of the future: innovations are coming
Cars won’t be able to fly in the year 2028, but we’ll experience vehicles that communicate with traffic lights and other vehicles, that you can control using words and that have the necessary intelligence to find a free [...]

To Design A Car for Car sharing

Sometime in the future – private ownership of cars may be curtailed. Such is the proposition for this project. Car will then be shared but not owned. This will fundamentally change the way companies think of and develop cars. Cars will not be seen as possessions but as modes of transport. Their color scheme may [...]

Nissan Denki Electric Cube – NY Auto Show

The CUBE Nissan Denki(Electric)

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Cars that avoid collisions

YouTube – World Tech Update
n this week’s show: We take Nissan’s high-tech cars for a spin, Steve Jobs grills employees over MobileMe, riding Toyota’s robotic transporter, new rules for gadgets at U.S. ports and news on upco…

Petrol Prices and Social divide

Social gap widens from outer to inner Melbourne | theage.com.au
SUBURBIA is bearing the brunt of rising fuel prices and extreme mortgage stress, a major study of Australian cities has found.
Governments must step in to provide outer suburbs with better public transport or risk extreme social breakdown, it warned.
The report, Unsettling Suburbia, for the first time [...]

Retrofitting Hybrids

I like this as I think it is a welcome boost to reusing old cars – and my favourite Austin Chummy from 1929 – with an electric wheel.

Strap-On Hybrid Kit Coming This Fall | Sustainable Life Media
July 25, 2008 – Soon you may be able to turn your non-electric vehicle into a hybrid simply by [...]

Share your car

Press Release
Car sharing is becoming popular with the advent of high fuel prices and local people are being invited to join a car-sharing scheme set up by Kirklees Council.
As well as reduce travel costs, the scheme will help to reduce congestion and pollution in the area and will ease pressure on parking spaces. Since the [...]

Model T Car Design Project

Designing the Model T for the Future – NYTimes.com
AS part of its celebration of the centennial of the Model T, the Ford Motor Company commissioned a group of transportation design students at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit to rethink the Model T for the future. The students were asked to imagine “a car [...]

The way Cars are Designed

I am going back in to teach UG classes after a semester of work exclusively with post grad. I am beginning to feel the energy of this enterprise and am quite excited.
Undergraduate teaching in design consists of setting up fictional projects – which simulate a design project situation where the student plays the role [...]

Cars for Car Sharing

The Melbourne ICARUS Project began with the objective of looking at – A Car specifically Designed for Car Sharing in Melbourne. See what I wrote before I went in to see Monique Conheady the CEO of Flexicar.
And what she told me changed the brief. Before it was 2-seater and small and now its not!

A [...]