Imagine this parked outside Aldi – the 'Audi Zero' design takes EVs in a wild new direction
No, it's not an invader from Mars, it's a concept Audi EV
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Designer Wini Camacho has imagined a future Audi EV that ditches the usual conventions for a space-age look.
The Audi Zero concept is very much a design project right now, but who knows what could happen in the future?
Electric cars designers certainly like to add flourishes that remind you of their electrification. Rather than slapping an EV motor and drive train into a standard chassis, manufacturers seem to think we would rather drive full sized equivalents of a Matchbox toy.
Angles, neon colours, space age LED lighting, there are numerous things that make a modern electric vehicle stand out. Some like it, some not. Designer Wini Camacho though wants to take things further. Much. Further.
As revealed on Designboom, the Audio Zero concept car is something altogether different. Essentially made from four tube-like elements and a sphere, it is a single-seater that can be imagined as either a coupé or open top roadster, and while it is very much a vision of a future for EVs, it also embraces the physical in its controls.
The design specs the vehicle as measuring 3.1 by 1.85-metres, and so it would be an ideal run around for city dwellers. You're likely to attract some interesting glances if you're parked outside Aldi, we'd say.
Not least because there doesn't seem to be any space for the shopping.
Of course, this is a design project not a real car (yet), with Wini submitting they're work to the website. The designer does have a history of motor design, however, having been part of the team behind the Denza concept shown in Beijing in 2012.
We've since seen other vehicles from the BYD-owned Denza brand – not least the Denza Z9 GT, which recently took us up the Goodwood Hillclimb at considerable speed.
That too is a sleek EV with a very modern styling, and while the Audi Zero is a whole lot more outlandish, it's not completely outrageous to suggest that some of its ideas could end up in production cars somewhere down the line.
