What does a car of the future look like?
The T.25 is an innovative concept in car design. With an average operation cost 50% less than the average consumer vehicle and 40% less emissions, it would be the most cost and fuel efficient car on the market. However, design is not the most important aspect of creating a futuristic car. Improved efficiency in production and shipping are also taken into account when turning the world of car manufacturing on its head.
Now that you've seen one concept of car design, tell us what does your car of the future look like?
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Gtrwrlrd
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I like the idea of having urban transports to reduce traffic in large cities but I don't think it will catch on until they develop this kind of tech for commercial use. I mean, if we saw the big transport companies like Mack Truck adopt something like this for an 18 wheeler it would probably cut gas costs all over the US. So far I've just seen these little cars that are only good for large cities. You sure wouldn't want to drive one of those things through the mountains, it would probably fly off the road if the wind hits it right!!!! Still they look cool, but I agree with Remanns, it's 2011, where are the Flying cars?!?!?!?!?!? Passing by the gas stations, I'm pretty sure I'm paying for Rocket Fuel now-a-days!!!!
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Gtrwrlrd
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skallet1
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slick and fuel efficient
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skallet1
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Jahvega
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it looks like a car without a gas tank!!!
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Jahvega
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Gravity_Man
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Toss in an air+steam engine that makes its own fuel the "Value of the Nation" goes into an EXPONENTIAL UPWARD SPIRAL.
Immediately. Oops. Gov't owns Detroit. I'm gone.
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Gravity_Man
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EmileZ [removed]
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40% less emmissions then the AVERAGE consumer vehicle isn't much. I hope the 50% price reduction is not the result of union-busting or neo-liberal globalization. Also, I hope it doesn't go to fast as it doesn't appear to be particularly safe. I don't think this sort of one passenger vehicle will catch on except in trendy circles (with disposable income). After all, what is the point???? You can't carry much other than the driver. Better to hop on a bus or a train (or bicycle or walk). ARRRGH!!!
- 10 months ago
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EmileZ [removed]
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DominicBlackwellCooper
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EmileZ:
According to Gordon Murray the car will hold a week's worth of groceries for a family of 5, plus the driver, I think that's a lot more than you can fit on a bicycle or on a bus. Plus these cars are designed for urban areas, they are not meant for high speed or long distances.
- 10 months ago
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DominicBlackwellCooper
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tverdell
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Have you heard of the shopping cart cars?
Essentially, when you need a car, you get it like a shopping cart. The cart even folds up a bit. When you get in to drive, you can customize the outside theme/color and music settings.
So when you need a car, you just grab one.
It's all electric of course.
- 10 months ago
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tverdell
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DominicBlackwellCooper
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tverdell:
Stay tuned to next week's Urban Mobility segment to learn more about stackable cars.
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DominicBlackwellCooper
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DominicBlackwellCooper
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remanns:
Flying cars would be awesome! But what kind of fuel do you think should run them?
- 10 months ago
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DominicBlackwellCooper
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remanns
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Added to "current cult" ( car-cult ) and "Culture" ( car culture ).
http://www.clipartoday.com/_thumbs/016/space_car2_tnb.png - 10 months ago
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remanns
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Gravity_Man
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I guarantee ya RIGHT NOW BUSTER you aren't going to sell a PIPSQUEAK MOUSE CAR TO ANDRE THE GIANT. Maybe, possibly, one for each foot.
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Gravity_Man
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totally_dilapidated
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1974 CitiCar
1966
Congress introduces the earliest bills recommending use of electric vehicles as a means of reducing air pollution. A Gallup poll indicates that 33 million Americans are interested in electric vehicles.1970
Concerns about the soaring price of oil and a growing environmental movement result in renewed interests in electric cars from both consumers and producers.1970
Federal Clean Car Incentive Program.1972
Victor Wouk, the "Godfather of the Hybrid," builds the first full-powered, full-size hybrid vehicle out of a 1972 Buick Skylark provided by General Motors (G.M.) for the 1970 Federal Clean Car Incentive Program.1974
Vanguard-Sebring's CitiCar makes its debut at the Electric Vehicle Symposium in Washington, D.C. The CitiCar has a top speed of over 30 mph and a reliable warm-weather range of 40 miles. By 1975 the company is the sixth largest automaker in the U.S.1976
The Environmental Protection Association kills the program.The electric car movement ends.
Today, 2011, parts per million carbon in the atmosphere is approx. 390.
Under the physics condition of inertia plus ppm increase coming to your
neighborhood soon, cars of the future do not have a future.Sorry.
Just the facts ma'am... - 10 months ago
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totally_dilapidated
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DominicBlackwellCooper
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totally_dilapidated:
The electric car movement never ended, however I do agree that special interest groups with a lot more money have been able to determine the economic success of innovative designs.
Here's an image of what the CitiCar actually looked like: - 10 months ago
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DominicBlackwellCooper
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totally_dilapidated
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DominicBlackwellCooper:
i saw the golf cart models
but the road car model grabbed me
someone faked me out with that photo...the movement that ended was mass market acceptance and production
there's an investigative 2006 documentary titled:Who Killed the Electric Car
It not only calls to task the officials who squelched the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, but all of the other accomplices, government, the car companies, Big Oil, even Eco-darling Hydrogen as well as consumers, who turned their backs on the car and embrace embracing instead the SUV.
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totally_dilapidated
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DominicBlackwellCooper
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totally_dilapidated:
Don't get me wrong man, I love DeLoreans, too bad we couldn't make them electric.
I know the documentary and yes, the public was duped into believing that the bigger the car, the safer the car, but today more and more people are starting to see the light and understand that even 42 mpg is not efficient enough. Give it another 5 years and we'll see more electric cars and more fuel-efficient hybrids at lower costs entering the market.
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DominicBlackwellCooper
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totally_dilapidated
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DominicBlackwellCooper:
oh so
that pic was a deLorean!
someone put it up as a citiCar...on another 5 years from now:
you know the old cliche
"a day late and a dollar short"well, the chance of having a future was back in the day
when the day was killed
it killed the future5 years from now?
you'll know what methane hydrates are... - 10 months ago
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totally_dilapidated
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remanns
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Vic_Romano:
+^d !
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remanns
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beiliege
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It looks like something that changes the design of all other future cars.
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beiliege
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Gravity_Man
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beiliege:
It looks like it has a shape that would easily clip a deer and keep on gettin' up. NJ drivers should buy these cars like HOTCAKES.
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Gravity_Man
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Gravity_Man
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The less number of pistons = the less amount of fuel used EVERYBODY WHO'S ANYBODY KNOWS THAT!!!
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Gravity_Man
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jrgolob
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KO: Great show. Infact the best ot TV with Ed Schultz. Thanks. Dick Golob, Sunnyside, Wa
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jrgolob
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Chukarhunter
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I personally believe that the cars of the future will be pulled by some kind of animal. Assuming we survive the coming calamity.
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Chukarhunter
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susankray
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Chukarhunter:
I'm kinda with you: a horse and buggy might be what we're going to see...might be a mule with a wagon or a human powered pushcart or something along those lines, depending upon what you need it for but except for the trade-off in speed, it's not a bad way to travel.
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susankray
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Gravity_Man
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Chukarhunter:
Yeah, that's the grab, making it thru the day of fury: http://www.newpath4.com/faith_works_no_not_never_fails_messagefromjesuslordsavio...
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Gravity_Man
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letsliveinpeace
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I hope it's not going to be that small in the future lol!
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letsliveinpeace
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danielacapistrano
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:) My car of the future would invoke the best from my favorite sci-fi films, but would actually work. It would be compact, run on electricity and other alternative fuel options, would fly (all cars would, as means to reduce traffic), and when inactive would help fuel a power grid that supported the city. Basically I want a car from Bladerunner.
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danielacapistrano
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DominicBlackwellCooper
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danielacapistrano:
Daniela, I have to admit I was a fan of the cars in Mad Max, which of course was a film all about the scarcity of fuel and dwindling natural resources. But man, were those cars awesome!
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DominicBlackwellCooper
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totally_dilapidated
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DominicBlackwellCooper:
Mad Max cars were apocalyptic sculpture
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