#Volkswagen hover car full#

Not quite enough for a band tour bus, then. There’s three rows of seats with the usual swivelling/configurable variability, plenty of loadspace and a theoretical 124-mile range.

Made by a consultancy called Applus Idiada – said to have worked on the stillborn Optimal Energy Joule – to showcase its skills, it’s a demonstration of form (interesting) following function (useful).

#Volkswagen hover car full#

Lowdown on the E-Born3, a 14ft-long shuttle bus with in-wheel electric motors, at Autoblog Green, where you can find a full picture gallery plus video.The findings from the project “will influence Volkswagen’s product strategy”, said director of marketing Luca de Meo. “The trend is towards safe cars that can easily navigate overcrowded roads and have a personal, emotional and exciting design.” The project has been extended beyond the year initially planned, with a new phase and a competition to be launched soon.

“The creative ideas from the People’s Car Project give us a valuable insight into the wishes of Chinese drivers”, says Simon Loasby, Head of Design at Volkswagen Group China. This is a zero-emissions two-seater designed to travel, hovercraft-style, above electromagnetic road surfaces – and as it doesn’t roll along the ground, it barely looks like a car at all. Suggestions developed by Volkswagen are the Music Car, a Beetle with an LED-enhanced exterior which changes colour according to the sounds from within, the Smart Key, which features touchscreen displays, remote birds’ eye monitoring via sat nav and 3G infomatics, plus this: the levitating Hover Car. Volkswagen’s People’s Car Project, launched in China 11 months ago, has involved crowd-sourcing ideas for vehicle and technology projects.