At that time, however, most of us didn't have any idea what the future has in store for automotive design 30 years down the line. And here we are at the crossroads — cars are bigger and arguably more aggressively styled than before. If you were to show us back then the current Honda Civic design, we would have scoffed at the idea and dismiss it as a joke. And yet, here we are. Time flies, as they say, so why don't we take this chance to take a peek at the future now?
Thankfully, Budget Direct has some interesting concepts of what current popular cars could look like in Despite the popularity of SUVs and crossover, the Civic lived on for 10 generations. We're now transitioning to its 11th-generation with the new Civic prototype , but 30 years down the road, this is how Budget Direct envisions the sedan's future. Click on each button to see those results. For more information, refer to the FAQ section below. A: The graph is a stacked area graph where each type of vehicle makes up a portion of the total vehicles on the road.
Even though AFVs are on the top, they only make up a small portion of the nearly 3 billion vehicles that are projected to be on the road in The rest of the 3 billion vehicles on the road are made up of either EVs or ICE vehicles, whose numbers will fluctuate based on what growth rates you assume! Why would that be? A: In early years of the adoption of any disruptive technology, growth rates are likely to be high.
For example, in , the first year mainstream EVs went on sale, 7, were sold. Then in , 45, were sold. As more vehicles come online each year, achieving huge growth rate increases becomes more difficult.
A: You can, just not on the web version of the Tool. Q: I read that Tesla has received nearly , preorders for its forthcoming Model 3 vehicle. Autonomous vehicles — whether for personal transport or freight delivery — could offer a potentially enormous disruption to life, business and society. It is now widely appreciated that the future of automotive technology will be strongly influenced by a need for higher safety, security and increasing Machine vision is bringing a new dimension to parking — a cost-effective way of monitoring car park occupancy and on-street parking bays.
Altran participated in the Paris Motor Show with a booth dedicated to powering the next generation of cars. Ignition in Action Altran What will the car of the future look like? Automotive Industry - Innovation. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Pin on Pinterest Share on Linkedin Share on WhatsApp "This development will be in stages: we start without feet and then do without hands and eventually without eyes.
The electric car Electric was the first phenomenon to transform cars. The autonomous car It is the most spectacular revolution. A new method of manufacture The last major change concerns the industry itself.
You may also be interested in Read more Automotive Industry. This allows a line to be shortened or extended in a matter of hours. The upshot is that if Toyota decides to add a new feature to a vehicle, the production line can be extended and a new work station added in a matter of hours.
For example, Toyota engineers have designed a radically down-sized plastic slush moulding machine, so if a customer orders the more expensive dashboard finish, it can be created line-side in seconds. Only the body welding remains highly automated in the new-age Toyota factory. Advertisement Back to top In tough times, Toyota can shorten or even mothball this new production line and the line-side equipment, potentially completely clearing a whole production hall, which can then be shut down.
However, there is one other future scenario for car production. If vehicles powered primarily by electric motors become the norm, car makers could be reduced to operations that just produce bespoke upper bodies and interiors. Such a future would necessarily simplify conventional car factories as the running gear becomes generic and the car makers put more effort into vehicle design and anything that makes a brand more distinctive.
Even engines and gearboxes could be partially made from plastic in , giving substantial weight savings. Advertisement Back to top Transmission specialist Drive Systems Design is working on transmission casings, gears and synchronisers made from polymers.
Plastic components not only weigh less but also absorb vibration and noise. Solvay, a manufacturer of high-performance polymers, is the leading sponsor of a project called Polimotor 2. Polimotor 2 is the brainchild of Florida-based engineer Matti Holtzberg, who developed and raced his first plastic engine, Polymotor 1, in the s.
Polimotor 2 is largely constructed from polymer and composite materials including the block , with steel and alloy used for key components such as the crank, flywheel, cylinders and combustion chambers. Lightweight steel, aluminium, carbonfibre, plastics and some bio-materials such as flax are likely to form the main structure of cars in The idea is a simple one: using the internet and interconnection to make big cities operate more efficiently.
That could mean simple things like street lighting that shuts down until movement is detected or providing by-the-second information on public transport. The idea of a city based on the internet and big data is much more easily realised when the city is built from scratch.
Audi boss Rupert Stadler brought up this subject with Autocar late last year. He said potential Audi owners were even starting to find it difficult to find parking spaces in city centres.
The move to push private cars out of the city centre is exemplified by what has happened in central London over the past 16 years. Since the creation of Transport for London, the capital has seen road space removal, junction blocking and a significant reduction in on-street parking places that have, in turn, been handed over to car share schemes and a bicycle rental programme.
On top of that, air pollution from diesel vehicles is now a major political issue in many European capitals, with threats in Paris to eventually ban diesel power altogether.
London has already said it will require all taxis and private hire vehicles to be zero-emissions capable later this decade. The car of the future — if it wants access to the city centres of the future — will have to have virtually no environmental impact locally, possess the ability to avoid accidents and generally make moderate and gentle progress through built-up areas.
Nearly all cars will adopt petrol-electric hybrid transmissions with back-up batteries big enough to allow a city centre to be crossed inzero-emissions mode. Advertisement Back to top These cars will also have automatic braking, pedestrian and cyclist-detecting cameras and even more sophisticated anti-collision technology.
Sat-nav systems will be updated by the second with information collected by other vehicles. It also uses aggregated traffic accident information to warn the driver when he is entering a section of road with a higher-than-average history of accidents. Localised weather reports for different areas of the capital, Seoul, are even on offer. Such information — automatically generated by future vehicles as they drive around — is sent to the cloud and then downloaded to the sat-nav system.
Audi is so concerned about the provision of parking that it is sponsoring a project in Boston, the US, that involves the building of compact underground car parks into which autonomous vehicles remote parking is already a live technology can self-park. The car of the future will be heavily influenced by technology that makes it much more friendly to the cities of the future, but we might not have to wait so long for such cars to become mainstream.
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