Concept cars are a staple at major auto shows. So what happens when desginers are given free reign to theorise about the future? Find out.
In July last year, BMW announced a partnership with Intel and Mobileye to develop self-driving by around 2021. (Representational image)
Toyota says its bus' fuel cells can generate enough power to light up a whole evacuation site, such as a school gymnasium. The company's goal is to sell up to 100 buses in Tokyo before the start of the summer games.- Toyota earlier announced that it will start selling buses that run on hydrogen fuel-cells in Tokyo next year. The fuel-cell buses will run on a powerful platform with up to 10 fuel tanks holding 600 litres of highly pressurised H2.
- There's just a single door that opens into a spacious, cream-coloured interior with plenty of wood panelling. It measures 5.9 meters long and 1.6 meters high and looks like a futuristic Batmobile.
- Rolls-Royce has joined the list of car companies making autonomous vehicles by unveiling its Vision Next 100 (103EX) earlier this year.
- The car has a system power of 800 V DC. The batteries can be charged by an inductive plate or with an conventional charger system. Porsche claims that with Porsche Turbo charging system the battery is loaded to 80 per cent in just 15 minutes.
- The Porsche Mission E is the first fully electric car powered by 2 electric motors: one at the front axle and one at the back.
- Teaming up with drone startup Matternet, the concept 'Vision Van' acts as a landing and launch pad for Matternet M2 delivery drones that can carry up to 4.4 pounds for 12 miles on a single charge.
- The Mercedes Van concept comes complete with robot shelves and drone parking on the roof to deliver to the door.
- The Lincoln Navigator will get a 400-plus-horsepower, 3.5-liter V6 engine and four interconnected screens - two in the second row and two in the third - on which passengers can enjoy multiplayer games and other shared apps, thanks to in-vehicle Wi-Fi.
- The new Lincoln's latest Navigator Concept exterior profile is based on an aluminum platform and is said to be inspired by yachts and the world of luxury boating.
- The company engineered the powertrain from the ground up to support a varied fleet of vehicles, resulting in Variable Platform Architecture (VPA) - a powerful, adaptive framework that features a modular battery structure.
- The FFZERO1's UI communicates critical information to ensure driver safety - visualizing vehicle velocity and the flow of data to and from the system.
- First unveiled at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the FFZERO1 Concept's key to an intuitive user experience (UX) is an intelligent user interface (UI).
- The VISION 100 ushers in a wildly futuristic tech feature called Alive Geometry that's made up of nearly 800 moving triangles scattered across the instrument panel and the body panels. However, the vehicle is merely a design study built to showcase what BMW's research and development department can dream up.
- BMW's VISION NEXT 100 stretches 192-inches long and 54-inches tall and offers two basic driving modes called Boost and Ease.
- The zero-emissions bike has self-balancing wheels designed to stand upright even at a complete stop. If the latest concept vehicle becomes a reality, it likely won't be before 2030.
- The German automaker BMW unveiled its Motorrad Vision Next 100 -- a sleek, self-balancing prototype earlier this year.
BMW’S VISION NEXT 100 previews what the ultimate driving machine of 2116 will look like.
Concept cars are a staple at major auto shows. So what happens when desginers are given free reign to theorise about the future? Find out.
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