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Company management boss, Markus Schafer, has now released another teaser image to accompany this new announcement, which offers a glimpse at the EV’s front three-quarters.Įngineers working on the project claim that, rather than increasing battery capacity (and with it, weight), improving a car’s aerodynamic efficiency is key to unlocking such a long range figure. The sooner we tackle this, the better.The prototype was first teased during Mercedes’s 2020 strategy presentation.
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We started from the current state of development and used our imagination to elevate our current view of "human-centered innovation" into the projection of a world in which man is embedded in the entire biosphere. This is exactly the approach we have taken with the Vision AVTR. They leave the ground of what can be proved today and enter an area of speculation-a scientifically substantiated "What if?". As researchers and scientists evolve new theories or develop existing ones, they depend on their imagination.
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The Vision AVTR makes speculative science visible and tangible. The aim of the Vision AVTR is to show us a signpost for a livable future, even if it will probably never be built.
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So I'll leave the last word to Alexander Mankowsky, a futurologist at Mercedes-Benz, to explain why it exists: Oh, and there's no steering wheel instead, occupants use a biometric connection that also uses their heart rate and breathing pattern to unlock the car.īeing snarky about an out-there concept like the AVTR feels a bit mean, though. In fact, the AVTR can (or could, if any of this actually existed for real) move sideways at a 30-degree angle in this manner.
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( Graphene batteries are a thing people are working on, but it's still the preserve of our Science section rather than anything showing up any time soon in a car you could buy or drive.)Īt the back, 33 "bionic flaps" are meant to evoke reptile scales, and the vehicle apparently uses them to communicate with the driver and the outside world through "naturally flowing movements in subtle gestures." And the front and rear electric motors can drive in the same or opposite directions for heightened maneuverability. Mercedes says that the car uses graphene-based batteries that are biodegradable and use no rare-earth elements. Looking at the photos Mercedes has released of the Vision AVTR aren't helping fill in those gaps, but based on the description, it too requires some unobtainium-or at least some enabling technologies that have yet to be invented.
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Like most of us who saw the 2009 sci-fi film from James Cameron, I can't remember much about it other than that it had elements of Dances with Wolves, but in space with blue giants, plus mining for "unobtanium" (which must have been discovered by the British, or it would surely have been called unobtainum).
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It's called the Vision AVTR, and the name is a clue-it was designed together with the people responsible for the movie Avatar. I'm not on the ground at CES this year, so I didn't get to see this year's Mercedes concept in person, but it looks even more out there. Two years ago, the company gave some of us late night rides down the Las Vegas Strip in its Smart Vision EQ concept car, even if that was actually a remote-controlled show car rather than a functional self-driving machine. Further Reading The car of the future is taking shape-and it will know how we feel about itMercedes-Benz has gotten into the habit of bringing some rather forward-looking concept cars to CES.