Nissan’s “Nippy” Motor Wins Award

This is the V2G concept, a car created by Nissan for the year 2030 and designed to appeal to the youth of that decade.

The recent LA motor show was the backdrop to a competition entered by six global vehicle manufacturers (Nissan, Honda, Mazda, Toyota, General Motors and Audi) to create a “Youthmobile”, the overall design theme for this year.

By providing a clever combination of futuristic design and caring for the environment, Nissan scooped the award with the V2G design, also aiming the car at the high technology demands of the future younger generation. And perhaps inadvertently making it look like a massive lobster!

The director of the LA Motor Show Design Challenge said that Nissan “showed passion” and were “the most inventive and solution-oriented design”.

The Nissan V2G adapts to current trends with its clever customization using snap-on parts. The car remains environmentally friendly through the use of carbon nanotube cloth made rigid through the use of bio resin impregnation, meaning the snap-on parts can be endlessly recycled by specially yet-to-be-created bacteria devouring the bioresin and leaving just the cloth. The V2G is also an electric car that would drive on a new network of electrified highways or “grids”, hence the name V2G meaning “vehicle to grid”. This allows the cars to run in close convoys or interlocked “flocks”. Let’s see what the next 20 years brings…!

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