The car designs that you are about to see are the future of transportation. These are space age Green cars that can run on the land, fly in the air, go for a dive under the ocean and even make you wonder if they indeed are cars!! Fasten your seat belts and marvel at the future coming right in front of your eyes.
1. Honda’s Four in One vehicle
This astonishing car by Honda is actually going to be a solar hybrid four in one vehicle. And Honda plans to attain this by integrating a theoretically mind boggling mix of nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, gyros and molecular engineering. No wonder the car will need at least another five decades to hit the road.
2. Flying Saucer Cars
The design results from the Clean Era Project and is aimed at making future air travel green. If the company designing this car does attain its goal of 50% reduction in carbon emissions then you can pretty much bet that it will put every other car out of business and will have people fighting for air space!
3. Ford Nucleon
The actual concept of the car dates back to as early as the 1950s and it is no real wonder that this still has not taken to the road. Cold fusion and even controlled fission are way out of reach of being car fuel. But who knows when this might actually work, if indeed ever! Moreover, how green is it? You decide.
4. Rinspeed’s Squba
Rinspeed, a Swiss-based company, is turning to the water for its latest concept; although this time they will be heading below the surface instead of skimming above it. The Squba’s concept is the world’s first diving car with zero emission power, according to the company, and can be submerged up to 10 meters or 33 feet below the surface. Now you can take a drive right into the Great Barrier Reef!!
5. GM Globetrotter
Harsh Ravi’s Globetrotter was selected out of 17 entries, in view of its “functionality, environmental sustainability, visual and emotional appeal and safety aspects.” This futuristic concept car can do almost everything in the greenest possible manner. The design, style and simplicity of it all make you wonder if it is not possible any sooner than 2017 and beyond!
6. NUS Urban Concept Car: All Style
The environmentally friendly NUS Urban Concept car jointly designed by the NUS Department of Mechanical Engineering and Design Incubation Centre intends to reduce fuel emissions as well as consumption. Feeding on gas-to-liquid fuel, this lightweight car is developed with a low rolling resistance allowing it to freewheel without consuming any fuel upon reaching a certain speed. Could be anyone’s personal favorite on the list.
7. M-Please-V
This breathtaking marvel was a green entrant at the Peugeot Design Contest 2007. The M-Please-V is a Multi-Purpose-lightweight-economic-and-simplistic-electric-Vehicle created by designer Sofian Tallal that seeks to redefine transportation and comfortable seating. The vehicle is designed to expose passengers to their environment and reduce technological distraction via an obvious lack of excessive electronics and accessories.
8. Coquille: Two Wheeled Green Car
Being the only two-wheeled futuristic green car design gave a reason to be on the list. Running on two big wheels that seem to house the car structure in between them, the Coquille too fits the category of compact, zero emission and high mobility vehicles. Conceptualized by Emiliano Polsonetti, it manages to balance on the two wheels by a computerized system relying on gyroscopes. Also, you can hop in and out of the two wheeled car from the front. Simply rolling ahead!
9. VW Viseo
The electric car prototype is a unique design developed by Marc Kirsch for his diploma project in collaboration with Volkswagen design in Wolfsburg, Germany. Powered by an electric engine, the design of this three seated car is highly influenced by internationally renowned Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. Some Spanish flavor and elegant class make it a must on this amazing list.
10. Zero Impact Urban Mobility Vehicle
Here is a concept that intends to be idealistic, defying the bounds of reality and convention. Designed by Natalie Bonebrake, the concept not only provides for clean and possible urban transport for the future but also seems the most likely of all the concepts to hit the road very soon!
