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Polestar unveils electric roadster with personal drone
Electric carmaker Polestar has revealed the O2 roadster concept car that features its own personal drone.
The Polestar O2 is a hard-top convertible that aims to showcase potential future technologies and design ambitions from the company, which brands itself a "pure play performance car brand".
"Polestar O2 is the hero car for our brand," said Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath. "It looks incredible, and being able to lower the roof and not hear an engine promises a superb sensation."
The Polestar O2 is a hard-top convertible with a fully electric engine
The vehicle aims to combine the looks and performance of a sports car with the brand's sustainability efforts and the novelty of an "autonomous cinematic drone", which can be seen in the video below, to capture the driver's most picturesque journeys.
The car evolves the design language of Polestar's previous concept car, the Precept, adapting it into the form of a more compact roadster. Polestar describes it as having "classic sports car proportions but with a clearly modern, electric feel".
Behind the rear seat is the car's most unorthodox feature: a built-in drone that can be deployed at speed from a special aerofoil that raises from the back of the car.
The car is meant to have the looks of a classic sports car but with a contemporary, electric feel
The aerofoil creates a calm area of negative pressure so the drone can take off while the car drives, and the device then follows the O2 autonomously, at speeds of up to 90 kilometres per hour.
There are different filming modes to choose from, and the videos can be edited and shared directly from the car.
Polestar explained that the goal of the drone was to heighten what it considers quite an emotional experience, mixing the joy of driving an open-top vehicle with the excitement and tranquility of electric mobility.
The car evolves the design language Polestar established with its earlier concept, the Precept
"We wanted to emphasise the experience you can have with a car like the Polestar O2 in new and unusual ways," said Polestar head of design Maximilian Missoni.
"Not needing to stop and offload the drone before filming, but rather deploying it at speed, is a key benefit to this innovative design."
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Sustainability initiatives are a key theme with the O2, which highlights some of the technologies Polestar might use as it aims to create the "world's first climate-neutral car" by 2030.
The O2's interior is largely made from a mono-material, meaning a single substance is used across many different components, facilitating easy recycling.
The rear of the car contains an aerofoil from which to launch an integrated drone
That material is a recycled and recyclable polyester thermoplastic that makes up the seats' foam, 3D knit upholstery and even the adhesive between them.
Recycling has also been a focus for the car's chassis, which is a bespoke bonded aluminium platform adapted from the existing Polestar 5.
To avoid the effects of "downcycling", where the recycled material loses quality with each iteration, Polestar has invented a method of labelling that marks the quality grade of each part. This should ensure each grade of aluminium remains pure throughout recycling.
All of the soft components in the interior are made of mono-materials
Because the O2 is a concept car, there are no technical specifications, but Polestar promises the vehicle will have tight body control, high rigidity and intuitive dynamics, with the high quality and rigidity of the aluminium platform making it highly responsive.
Sports cars are uncommon in the electric vehicle market, with the only other roadster coming from Tesla.
Polestar plans to launch three cars over the next three years, and says that each will have the potential to realise some of the ideas presented by the O2.
A personal drone can be launched while the car is moving
The Swedish company, which was founded in 2017 by Volvo Cars and Geely Holding, currently has two car models on the road, the Polestar 1 and Polestar 2.
One of Polestar's most ambitious goals is to create the world's first climate-neutral car by 2030 – a project which its head of sustainability has previously described as a challenge akin to putting a man on the moon.
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Dezeen's top 10 non-fossil fuel car and truck designs of 2021
Electric vehicles were a hot topic this year amid growing concern about the climate impact of petrol and diesel engines. For our review of 2021 Dezeen rounds up 10 non-fossil-fueled vehicles, including a coupe designed by Virgil Abloh and an electric car by Heatherwick Studio.
Photo courtesy of Mercedes-Benz
Project Maybach by Virgil Abloh and Mercedes-Benz
German carmaker Mercedes-Benz unveiled Project Maybach, a solar-cell-powered electric show car developed in partnership with Virgil Abloh, shortly after the American fashion designer's death.
The off-road coupe is nearly six metres long and has a transparent front bonnet housing solar cells that would be used to charge the battery.
Find out more about Project Maybach ›
Image courtesy of Hyundai Motor Company
Heritage Series Grandeur by Hyundai
The Heritage Series Grandeur is a modernised, all-electric concept version of the 1980s Hyundai Grandeur saloon car.
It retains the original car's boxy shape and single-spoke steering wheel while introducing 2021-ready updates, such as LED headlights and an ultra-wide touch screen dashboard display.
Find out more about the Heritage Series Grandeur ›
Photo courtesy of Renault
Renault 4L Suite No.4 by Mathieu Lehanneur
Another example of a classic car given an electrified makeover, the Renault 4L Suite No.4 has the same lines and exterior dimensions as the 1960s original but features new panoramic windows across much of its back, sides and roof. The roof also contains transparent solar panels.
It was dreamed up by French designer Mathieu Lehanneur, who said the Suite No.4 "isn't a car, it's travel architecture".
Find out more about the Suite No.4 ›
Photo is by Yanli Tao, courtesy of Heatherwick Studio
British designer Thomas Heatherwick's studio this year unveiled its prototype of Airo, an electric car created for Chinese brand IM Motors that is set to go into production in 2023.
Heatherwick has promised Airo will "vacuum up pollutants from other cars" as it drives, by virtue of it being fitted with a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filtering system.
Photo is by Richard Thompson III
In November, US automotive start-up Canoo introduced an all-electric pickup truck with a variety of hidden tricks.
For example, the modular truck bed is extendable, while there is a fold-out workbench in the space where the engine would traditionally be found.
Find out more about the Canoo Pickup ›
Image courtesy of XPeng
Chinese manufacturer XPeng plans to mass-release this electric flying car as soon as 2024.
The design is unusual among urban air motility vehicle concepts in that it would be capable of driving on the road as well as functioning in the air, with a foldable dual rotor mechanism converting it from a car to a flying machine.
Find out more about the XPeng flying car ›
Image courtesy of Lexus
This off-road buggy is not electric but instead runs an internal combustion engine that uses hydrogen in place of fossil fuel.
Lexus, which developed the concept, said the vehicle generates "near-zero emissions" while retaining the rumbling engine tone and instant responsiveness beloved by petrol heads.
Find out more about the ROV Concept ›
Image courtesy of PriestmanGoode
New Car for London by PriestmanGoode
The New Car for London is a driverless, electric ride-hailing vehicle concept designed by PriestmanGoode.
It is intended to be specific to London to combat the global domination of major ride-sharing apps, with the car's angular profile informed by the British capital's brutalist buildings and its interiors reminiscent of the Tube's distinctive upholstery.
Find out more about the New Car for London ›
Image courtesy of BMW
BMW's i Vision Circular concept car is electric, but what sets it apart from other battery-powered vehicles is its ability to disassemble at the touch of a button.
Designed to demonstrate how the automobile industry could embrace circular economic principles, it is made from recycled and recyclable materials and held together by detachable connections, rather than permanent adhesives, so the parts can be separated and reused.
Find out more about the i Vision Circular ›
Photo courtesy of Volta Trucks
Volta Zero by Volta Trucks and Astheimer
This 16-tonne electric lorry, developed by Swedish startup Volta Trucks in collaboration with Warwick-based consultancy Astheimer, was named product design of the year at the 2021 Dezeen Awards.
By placing the batteries in the chassis, the designers were able to free up space in the driver's cab, with the low, central sitting position and panoramic windows intended to be safer for pedestrians and other road users than standard heavy goods vehicles.
Find out more about the Volta Zero ›
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Millions of electric cars are coming. What happens to all the dead batteries?
Recycling the battery can be a hazardous busines.
Current EV batteries are really not designed to be recycle. That wasn’t much of a problem when EVs were rare. But now the technology is taking off. Several carmakers have said they plan to phase out combustion engines within a few decades, and industry analysts predict at least 145 million EVs will be on the road by 2030, up from just 11 million last year.
Batteries differ widely in chemistry and construction, which makes it difficult to create efficient recycling systems. And the cells are often held together with tough glues that make them difficult to take apart. That has contributed to a economic obstacle: It’s often cheaper for batterymakers to buy freshly mined metals than to use recycled materials.
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