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The California Startups Showcasing Forward Momentum for Mobility Design

Eric Gallina — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 12:00:00 +0000

This year has seen a number of new car reveals, but only a handful of these new designs have been impressive — the Koenigsegg Gemera, Ford Bronco and GMC Hummer spring to mind. And while we may have had to wait until the 11th hour for 2020 to shine through as a positive year, three new vehicles unveiled in the last week truly seem to embody forward momentum in mobility design. Perhaps unsurprisingly, none of these come from established automakers. […]

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Review: Design Trends and Videos from Auto China 2018

Eric Gallina — Fri, 04 May 2018 08:14:23 +0000

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Yanfeng Interiors Showcases Innovations in XiM18 Concept

Eric Gallina — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 10:23:33 +0000

Yanfeng Automotive Interiors (YFAI), the company that brought the XiM17 Experience in Motion autonomous interior concept to the 2017 Detroit auto show, will reveal a new concept in Frankfurt. Following the same nomenclature as the previous interior concept, the XiM18 features more than 30 product and process solutions for the next generation of electric and autonomous driving cars. Increasing connectivity and new forms of car ownership and mobility such as electric cars, autonomous driving and car sharing are rapidly changing […]

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Toyota i-TRIL Concept is a Fun Look at Future Mobility

Eric Gallina — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 13:00:10 +0000

What should an all-electric mobility vehicle for urban areas look like in the year 2030? It’s the question many manufacturers are posing at a time where autonomy and electrification are two of the most talked about subjects in the automotive industry. Toyota’s proposal is in the form i-TRIL concept, which was unveiled at the 2017 Geneva motor show. Designed at the Japanese automaker’s ED2 advanced design outpost in southern France, the brief was to create a three-person vehicle that could […]

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Daniel Simon Designs Robocar – World’s First Driverless Racing Car

Eric Gallina — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 17:00:16 +0000

Roborace revealed the world’s first driverless electric racing car — the ‘Robocar’ — at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today. The car, designed by legendary designer and racing car fanatic Daniel Simon (now Roborace’s Chief Design Officer), was unveiled to the public during a keynote address on the evolution of autonomous vehicles. Automotive futurist Daniel Simon is probably best known for his work designing vehicles for Hollywood sci-fi blockbusters, including Tron Legacy and Oblivion. But he’s also designed motorcycles and […]

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Future Sexy? Autonomous Vehicles’ Impact on Car Design

Paul Snyder — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 12:08:31 +0000

How could the autonomous vehicle impact car design? It’s a question brewing in design circles worldwide. Paul Snyder, Chair of the College for Creative Studies’ Transportation Design program, offers his thoughts. Sex may in some way explain the fierce resistance of auto enthusiasts and practitioners to view future transportation through any other lens than one framed by history, the racetrack, the concourse, or the auction. In other words, an extreme interest in cars — like many passions and pastimes — […]

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The Top Mobility Tech Announcements at CES 2017

Cat Dow — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 09:27:58 +0000

Celebrating fifty years of bringing the brightest and best future technologies all in one space, CES 2017 was better than ever before. Artificial intelligence, personalization and autonomous driving developments dominated the automotive news. Here are our top announcements from the show. BMW’s HoloActiv Touch interface gave us fantasy buttons you could touch in a lounge-like interior The future of HMI is daring and bold when it’s presented by BMW. This year, the German carmaker was focused more on how the […]

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Italdesign Gira Concept Shows VW Group’s Autonomous Interior Vision

Eric Gallina — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 17:25:16 +0000

Volkswagen Group Research, in collaboration with designers and engineers at Italdesign, has devised a futuristic vehicle interior study called ‘Gira’, an abbreviation of a German phrase that roughly translates to ‘the relaxing way to drive’. The interior concept, accessed via wide gullwing doors that fold open to form a canopy above the passengers, depicts what it could be like to travel in a future semi-autonomous vehicle. The concept’s four gray seats can be adjusted to suit an array of different […]

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BMW Unveils Vision Next 100

Eric Gallina — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 15:20:21 +0000

If you’ve been contemplating the point of auto shows, wonder no more. BMW has decidedly quashed any glimmer of hope that the format might still be relevant by taking the wraps off of one of the most significant new concept cars to debut this century, the Vision Next 100, just one week after the first press conferences were held at the Geneva motor show in Switzerland. The unveiling of the Vision Next 100 isn’t actually an f-bomb to the auto […]

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Volvo Concept 26 Previews Luxury Autonomous Interior

Eric Gallina — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:04:15 +0000

The Volvo Concept 26 is the Swedish automaker’s take on the future interior for luxury autonomous cars. Designed at Volvo’s Monitoring and Concept Center (VMCC) in California, the Concept 26 provides various interior configurations that focus on making the travel experience more pleasurable, whether you’re driving or not. Volvo is a company that has always been focused on people and the Concept 26 is no different. While the company built its reputation on safety from the 1960s through to the […]

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Nissan Shows Autonomous Vision in 2015 IDS Concept

Eric Gallina — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 12:04:04 +0000

Nissan revealed a new autonomous vehicle concept at the 2015 Tokyo motor show today. Called the IDS, the five-door hatchback is a far cry from the IDx concept shown in Tokyo just a few years ago. While both the normal and Nismo variant of the IDx pointed towards a more analogue future small car, the IDS is the polar opposite: An electrically propelled autonomous hatchback that embraces artificial intelligence. Built entirely from carbon fiber, the IDS concept’s 1380mm tall body […]

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Mercedes-Benz Vision Tokyo Further Explores Autonomous Concept

Eric Gallina — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 10:30:11 +0000

When I first saw the autonomous Mercedes-Benz F 015 reveal earlier this year I immediately thought of the Citroen Tubik concept. To me that was a more appealing proposal — from an exterior design perspective at least — than the monolithic silver form of the F 015. Apparently Mercedes-Benz designers were already thinking about the MPV typology as well. The Mercedes-Benz Vision Tokyo is a further exploration of the autonomous, electric, connected vehicle concept for the future urban landscape. Billed […]

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