Citroën has unveiled its new concept car made of cardboard and shaped like a futuristic SUV. The cardboard used is a special honeycomb shape reinforced with a plastic layer on each side to have enough strength. It can stand without bending. Instead of metal items, cardboard is used.
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In a world where there are limited or no resources, the cardboard concept can be applied. The concept car went ahead to use the best raw materials to make a car. It was developed in collaboration with the German chemical giant BASF. This and the vertical windscreen designed to reduce the amount of glass required and save weight make the electric Citroën “Oli” concept car look like a futuristic SUV.
During the Soviet era, a common, erroneous, urban legend says that the Trabant, a small two-stroke engine car made in the former East Germany, had a body made of reinforced cardboard – and if it rained enough, you could punch a hole in it. it is.
In fact, the Trabant is a plastic made from “duroplast” reinforced with cotton waste from the former Soviet Union. Citroën and BASF, part of the world’s No. 4 car manufacturer Stellenbosch, have succeeded in turning a popular myth into reality. “It’s more than just an unremarkable car,” Anne Lalliron, Citroen’s director of future products, told Reuters. “This is almost a description of new lifestyles.”
Concept cars
The designers of Dacia, a low-cost brand of Renault, also tried their hand at this practice, presenting the “Manifesto” concept car. Unveiled in mid-September, Oil Is More Valuable than Gold looks like something out of a “Mad Max” movie set in a post-apocalyptic world. Dacia’s Off-roader is a bare-bones vehicle focused on the basics, including a cork dashboard with a good old-fashioned paper road map for GPS navigation. To account for the potential impact of climate change and a shortage of components, the Citroën Ollie weighs less than 1 ton (1,000 kg) and can’t exceed 110 km/h (68 mph).
Gone are the wire harnesses on the door panels – just eight units in today’s cars with an average of 35 – the key lock is back and the dashboard uses data from the driver’s mobile phone for communication or entertainment. The windows open manually and the vertical windscreen – which also reduces the effect of solar radiation inside the vehicle and reduces the need for air conditioning – vents on the hood to recreate the effect of the windscreen on vehicle aerodynamics.
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