Concept Anyway
Concept-anyway is a public car for commuters in the city. It is made to run inside the central zone of the city using electricity as a propulsion fuel. This car is a part of PubliCAR service which will be taken care by the Victorian government initially and can become a semi government body later on. User has a flexible access to these cars as well as service using different interfaces and mediums provided, for example using their own mobile phone, websites, car instrument panel or kiosk at parking spots.
It can be used by various user groups like business commuters, students, working people for their primary as well as secondary needs including shopping and cultural meetings.
Concept Anyway-Exterior
Concept Anyway- Interiors
The name of the car i.e. concept-anyway has its connection with the function of the car. This car can be driven in both directions by providing two steering wheels on two ends of the car. One steering is active at one time. This function gives freedom and ease of usage of the car, one can park it anywhere and can take it out without reversing it. The exterior design has taken care to support this function from the outer appearance of the car by giving loop like shape which is asymmetry in symmetry. The driver will know about the driving position from the outside of the car itself in a very intuitive way. The car is made of two sets of similar parts which can be joined, facing opposite to each other to build a complete car, reducing the cost of the dies (same die can be used ) and other manufacturing costs involved.
Exterior Form Development
Interior Development
This car can carry four persons and has dedicated storage space for each of them where they can put their Laptop bags and other stuff directly. These storage spaces are open shelf type on instrument panel itself. It also has a flexible seating system, where user can use multiple patterns for seating arrangements like facing at each other, facing in same direction, like a flat bed and many others.
The car is compact and has a length of 3665 mm and height of 1695 mm with a wheel base of 2440 mm. Li-ion batteries are under the floor with control equipments in the front and rear ends of the car. Wheels are powered by hub mounted electric motors. This car can be charged on any of the parking spots. Its interiors are flexible and simple and easy to clean and maintain. Materials used are recyclable, durable with a replaceable covering on it for cleaning.
Car Layout
Flexible Seating Layout ( Click on the Image to view Animation )
360 degree View ( Click to view the animation )
Design Process:
Design Process
CAD Development
Model Making Process-1
Model Making Process-2
1:8 Scale Physical Model
System and service:
City Zones
Concept Anyway
Car sharing system
Flexible Parking
Service-website:
Home Page
Journey Planner
Available Car sharing options
Available Car pooling options
Confirming the journey
Booking
Tags: Car Sahre, Carshare, Carsharing, ICARUS, Lalit, Melbourne, NID, RMIT, Social Innovation Project, Soumitri
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November 8, 2008 at 2:28 am
Well done. Nice concise description.
November 10, 2008 at 3:43 pm
More flexible-storage. I really like the design, but people within a city also need to more stuff, especially since they don’t own another car. So, I would think about having all of the seats “fold away” or whatever to create storage space, too (with very tough fabric on the back). Also bike and roof racks that fold out. even consider the old fashioned “trunk” racks that would be attached to the backs of cars in the 20’s, so a trunk could go on them. And, always consider (i) some HUGE “bumper tape” that wraps around the car and can be repalced easily to remove regular scuffs & scrapes (ii) easy clean interiors – both issues faced by the reality of public cars