This project is called Mobility Hybrid Concept Car, a 2-seater compact hybrid vehicle with spacious cabin where you can keep 2 collapsible pedelecs or pedal electric bikes under the boot. The batteries of these bikes can be charged in the car or a socket outlet, the bike and the car feature common design lines that reflect they are hybrids.
The main goal by integrating pedelecs in the car is to provide higher individual mobility allowing you to easily adapt to traffic in the city or countryside. Commuters can easily park their cars somewhere outskirts of the city and then continue their journey with pedelecs, avoiding rush hour traffic and parking space problem at the city center. Instead of using public transport, you would enjoy riding your bike while exploring the city.
Designer : Emin Ayaz
Powered by a hybrid engine, this car offers small yet spacious cabin. The ability to store 2 collapsible pedelecs doesn’t sacrifice the storage space for your luggage. When you driving the car at high speed, the electric engine turns off and the combustion engine turns on. The car’s front and headlights change color based on the power mode: electric or fuel mode.
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BlackBraid bike, produced by Munich Composites features you a super light bicycle (less than 5kg) without compromising its style. Just like champagne and caviar, vodka and martini, style and sustainability, this combination allows for beautiful, modern, creative bike for urban lifestyle. Braided carbon frames were developed based on a new procedure in braiding technology to produce high-performance material, stable as metal yet weight less than aluminum. Together, PG-Bikes and Munic Composites teamed up to create a master piece for the road, BlackBraid bike that is offered in 2 different models: Fixie (city bike) and Touring (long distances).
Designer : PG Bikes
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Cygo is an electric car concept that offers passengers the ability to take their bikes wherever they want, without having to install a bike rack. Yes, most often than not, this bike rack doesn’t fit the design of the car. The idea was to design a vehicle especially for people who love bike riding, people who commute every day to a bigger city to work, therefore, it’s an ideal vehicle for people who live about 10-50 km outside from the city.
This small city lightweight vehicle is powered by wheel-hub-engines. The aerodynamic cabin is designed for two people and 2 bikes which can be place at the bike mount rack located at the rear of the Cygo.
Designer : Daniel Rauch
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Volteis V+ is an electric vehicle that has been designed with “less and more” concept in mind. They are two words that are used to describe this unidentified rolling object by Philippe Starck and conceived by Volteis. This is clearly a minimalist and simple vehicle, a completely different approach to futuristic electric vehicles that have been shown off by most automotive industries. It’s an attempt to answer the need of lightweight and minimalist eco transport for those who are looking to travel light and different.
“I wanted to offer an alternative. A different answer to return to the minimalist definition of a vehicle. A simple vehicle. Almost a child’s play. With 4 wheels. A steering wheel. And electricity. A vehicle just here to transport. Transport us and our business. Almost nothing.
To have more. More humanity. More respect. More choices to show that we care about our environment.” Ph.S
Designer : Philippe Starck
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SORA Electric Motorcycle boasts the combination of futuristic, café racer and street fighter bikes into one innovative electric superbike. The designer team says that SORA represents a new generation electric motorcycle. It’s an electric bike that doesn’t compromise its superior speed, the state-of-the-art engineering offers optimum performance and one-of-a-kind riding experience. Can you tell that SORA design is also influenced by bobber? You can spot it in the rear fender that is attached to the wheel, the front dynamics of the bike is influenced by street fighter style.
Designer : The Creative Unit
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This Evolution Bike concept tries to incorporate the best of existing bike designs, without their drawbacks. Recumbent bikes have a benefit of low wind resistance and a comfortable seating position, but the looks of these bikes are often questionable. The low models are barely visible in traffic, they need a lot of maintenance and are often pretty expensive.
City bikes and mountain bikes have good looks and a higher point of view witch is important in city traffic. However, when you have a head on wind on a long stretch of road, this model bike is not the most comfortable and fastest.
The Evolution Bike has all the benefits: low wind resistance, good looks, high point of view and very easy in maintenance. It’s been designed for anybody who rides a distance of 5 to 25 km on a regular basis.
Other innovative features from this Evolution bike design would its layout. The front hub with inline crank shaft and continuously variable transmission makes this layout possible.
Designer : Roel Verhagen Kaptein
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Electric vehicle designers usually miss few minute but important parts that reduce the overall efficiency of their product, such as incorporating large batteries to store enough charge for long distance travel which makes the car bigger and heavier, underutilizing the existing network and infrastructure, and most over, the increased crowd of private transportation reducing the opportunity of public transports to make more available for mass people.
El-Assist is an innovative transportation solution for electric bikes that has been designed to address all these small and mostly overlooked parts of electric vehicle concepts. The concept features two parts, the vehicle itself and the auto-piloted support shuttles. The existing technology of overhead trams or trolleybuses network has been fully utilized by enabling the support vehicle, a functional part of the concept, that acts as a connection station for the electric cars by charging them when traveling between cities. To reduce the number of private vehicles on street, this concept introduces a shared travel service where electric car owners would carry passengers in exchange of the electricity provided by the network. Aside from just charging electric vehicles, the support shuttle offers safety to the drivers by controlling speed or proximity to other objects and relieving the monotony and frustration of long distance drivers.
Designer : Vladimir Abramov
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No, functionally, this is not one of those tiny wooden toys that you frequently see kids playing around. However, you can still consider Kart bike concept as a fun toy, while roaming around on it with style and convenience.
Folding bikes are quite common these days but the way it folds show the creativity of the designer. Kart bike features a four frame construction that folds and stacks on each other, making the transformation procedure easy and efficient. The shrinkable handle and the foldable pedals assist the folding process and the inclusion of a LED light enables the bike to be used in dark nights too. Once folded, you can carry this lightweight and ultra-portable bike to anywhere or drag it like a cart.
Designer : Heesang Ahn (Parsons the New school, major in product design)
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The inefficiency of existing transportation system and the possible more alarming situation in the future has turned designers over the world conscious about envisioning more effective and sustainable city commuting system. Bicyclus concept is one of these great attempts specially designed for Copenhagen that incorporate a compact, lightweight and stylish bike, produced by reusing abandoned bikes of the city, along with an engaging bike sharing system. The innovative handlebar has been specially designed to play a key role in the bike sharing network and would be the only common part among the wide variety of bikes made of thousands of abandoned bikes. This arrangement will enable citizens to choose their desired kind of bikes from many, according to their needs. The system comprises modular bike stations from where aside from booking a bike, users can connect with social network and share their knowledge about the city to guide others through it. By reusing bike junks, this concept will complement the environment while educating people about sustainable behaviors.
Designer : Stefano Marchetto
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The OPENbike system is combined with a user friendly, lightweight bicycle and effective technologies used in telecommunications, public-transport, positioning, car-sharing and logistics to create a unique and innovative bike-sharing system. The bike has been designed to comfortably suit riders of all body sizes with adjustable saddle and handlebar. The unique design of the bike has given it a clear brand identity which will help it to be easy recognizable. Produced with strong and recycled materials, this bike produces minimal environmental impact, while makes it durable enough to sustain for many years. The system also offers cargo bikes which can be booked ahead and is available at OPENbike centers, as a great solution for locals and visitors with small children to enjoy the city life.
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The Tow-N-Stow, with its around 50 cubic feet of lockable, water resistant storage capacity, offers the users to tow up to 1000 lbs of substances including landscape mulch, plywood, soil, sports/camping gear, sports bikes and lawn tractors. Aside from using it as a towing cargo, it can be used as a great place for you to store your seasonal or recreational items outside the home by turning it into an upright outdoor storage unit in no time. The outer shell of this innovative design is reinforced with steel containing durable polymer using 7% post-consumer recycled material, making the unit a green product.
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The TFL Bikeshare network concept outlines an efficient and healthy way to realize the ultimate solution for commuters. This concept comprises a foldable e-bike that can be rode from the home and deposited to modular mobile hub, and board a bus. Upon arrival at destination, another hub will be there to rent another bike through using the unique Oystercard which can be availed by leasing the service on a per trip or monthly basis.
The E-bike has been designed with airless tires, robust tubular construction and shaft drive, ensuring durability, while the luminated front bar and dazzling graphics increase the visibility and safety for the rider. E-bikes have designed to be folded quickly and intuitively by the user and deposit it into the storage modules after arriving to a transit hub. RFID technology has been utilized to charge the users on their Oystercard according to the amount of E-bike rental time. When docked, E-bikes act as hub seating and get charged for the next renter.
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London Garden is a concept car free zone in downtown London allowing bicycles and busses only as transportation means. In this connection, the designers have created an innovative transportation system combining a bike and a bus including the supporting infrastructure.
The bicycle is designed to generate energy when riding and this energy can be used as currency to pay for your bus rides. The bike electronically folds into the bus seat storage mode for space and weight efficiency and to fit on the bike stand. Bike stands can be found at the bus stops where the bikes will be stored securely in order to collect energy from the sun and wind. Moreover, it contributes energy to the bus system that was generated during riding and stored in inner batteries. Finally, the energy will be accumulated from all the bus stops into the London Garden network system, which is the Universal Electricity Network of this concept.
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Buell Blade is a motorcycle concept with various innovative features for both performance and visual aspects and is designed concentrating on American tradition. This bike comprises a classic V-Twin engine that has made this bike a powerful vehicle on road. This sports bike will create a new riding experience with its unique wheel that has been designed without any sorts of spokes or rims. Buell Blade motorcycle features a rear suspension system integrated with the bikes core design and an internal drivetrain to make it extraordinary. This bike has been designed to rule the streets of the future city transportation system.
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Earlier this year, Toyota and Royal College of Art Students (RCA) have launched a creative partnership to promote innovative design for urban living, using Toyota’s new iQ city car as the inspiration. Students were asked to create an item that reflect the concept of ‘intelligent urban living’.
Yusuf Muhammad, was the winner of Living Room category and joint overall winner. His Yu Type design sits on the computer keyboard and allows ‘hunt and peck’ two fingered typists the opportunity to increase their speed and confidence. He is now thinking about developing the idea and hopes to include features like spell checking and predictive text to increase its appeal. Judges praised the way he addressed a social issue of an aging population within the urban context.
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