Design WOO

Presented at the Hanover Trade Show, the Volkswagen Milano Taxi is a concept car made to become the most used taxi of big cities. Great design, Compact, Emission-free… the Milano Taxi by the german brand VW is made for us to love it. Apart it’s great space use, the concept car goes up to 74 mph and car travel for 186 miles between each charges. On the same line, Volkswagen released the Berlin taxi Concept Car too. We’ll learn about those in the months to come.

VW Milano – Back

VW Milano – Open

VW Milano – Inside

This amazing all electric concept car is christened as YeZ and is a joint venture of SAIC and GM. Yez is a Chinese dream of eco-friendly cars that is to be used in 2030. As the car has been designed with environment in focus, it will get power from the natural sources of energy. The rooftop of the car will be equipped with solar panels and small wind turbines located on the wheels. YeZ will also feature an advanced system that will inhale the CO2 from the surrounding air and exhale the fresh oxygen back into the atmosphere. The energy generated from all these means will be stored in the batteries that will further conduit it to the vehicle when on the move.

The brainchild of Brazilian designer Maurício Sampaio, the “Sampdesign Neo” is an electric vehicle for urban use that offers a safe and sustainable ride on cramped city roads. Powered by three engines embedded in each wheel, the three-wheeler features an exterior surround by LED lighting, which makes it extremely safe during night rides. The zero-emission vehicle comes equipped with buffers that generate energy, smart rubber that totally isolates the cabin from the outer world and an air conditioner, which allows occupants to choose the internal temperature. The entire body, including the translucent, of the Neo uses biodegradable plastic that makes it environmentally friendly altogether.
The small size of the vehicle helps to solve the problem of traffic chaos in large cities. Commuters can access the vehicle through a single door that opens from the front. Capable of reaching a top speed of 90 km/h, the Sampdesign Neo has the maximum range of 300 km per charge, thanks to the lithium-ion battery. With the Neo, commuting on city roads won’t be chaotic anymore.

Peugeot ELA is a concept car for the future. It’s green, mean and a blazing glory of fireball orange! Lemme explain, the vehicle is a hybrid of electro magnet and solar energy and runs on a thin surface of air. It’s not the first time that a designer has predicted that the future road surfaces will conform to the electro magnet tech used in trains. Anyways, the solar cells on the roof of the car provide the extra zing. I love the flashy bright color of this two-seater, do you?

Designer: Mohammad Ghezel

Virtual reality was once the holy grail of computer science and interactivity. It promised to free us from the limits of our bodies and allow our minds to roam free in a universe completely within our control. It was touted as the future entertainment medium with applications in science and medicine but designer Vagarsh Saakyan thinks it could be our whole way of life.

As the human population continues to grow, space will become a premium. Our resources exhausted and with no land left, we have to move our megatropolises into the virtual world. In virtual reality, cities can be as big as needed. There are no limits. People can envisage how they live and how they get around. You may prefer to ride around in a space age urban buggy like the Voila Voila (pictured) or go retro and handle business in a horse and carriage.

So what do you think? To be honest the world I’d live in would resemble nothing like science fiction or reality. It would be the Kingdom of Care-O-lot, and we would all be Care Bears, and we would ride around on cloud cars and take weekly excursions to the Forest of Feelings to visit our Care Bear Cousin friends. Is the future now?

Designer: Vagarsh Saakyan