OLED-equipped 'open source' EV shown at Geneva Motor Show
Back in January, Reg Hardware reported on German auto-engineering company EDAG's plan to unveil at the Geneva Motor Show an electric vehicle with an OLED tail-gate, four in-wheel electric motors, user-definable OLED dashboard and basalt-fibre body panels.
EDAG Light Car - Open Source EDAG's Light Car: on stage at Geneva
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If I could configure the lights to spell out "You're driving like a complete bell-end. Yes you, the arsewit in the grey 3 Series" I'd be very interested.
So, in the not too distant future, we'll be able to hit 'SkinMyRide.com' and download le pattern de jour - perhaps even have your AutoSkin change depending on the time of day and location?
"No M'Lud, I was not driving a black BMW three series, mines the swirly green and yellow effect, well, it was at 9pm anyway..."
If just to be able to have the rear say 'FUCK YOU' when you have to pull in before an HGV to actually get off the slip road and the bastard turns his 50MW lamps on cos he has to lose 0.3MPH, resulting in an interior-mirror-shaped tan line across your nose.
... any of these "concept" cars make it to the showrooms we'll have burned up our last drop of oil. Oh, hang on, thats the idea isn't it? I mean, how can it take so long to actually make and ship these things? All the tech is well established. What we need is some Government and Manufacturer commitment and we're done.
Instead all we get is this ridiculous posturing and not actual product.
To all the nay-sayers of electric tech - welcome to history, this is the inevitability, its no use harping on about how it wont work. I do believe much the same was said by horsemen of old about the ICE. They got that a bit wrong too.
I swear, apart from the OLED I'm not finding the IT angle
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OLED-equipped 'open source' EV shown at Geneva Motor Show
Back in January, Reg Hardware reported on German auto-engineering company EDAG's plan to unveil at the Geneva Motor Show an electric vehicle with an OLED tail-gate, four in-wheel electric motors, user-definable OLED dashboard and basalt-fibre body panels. EDAG Light Car - Open Source EDAG's Light Car: on stage at Geneva True …
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Posted Wednesday 4th March 2009 15:32 GMT
Anonymous Coward
This electric car with all these lights... #
can you report what it is like to push?
Posted Wednesday 4th March 2009 15:32 GMT
Paolo Pennisi
web site english version #
http://www.edag-light-car.com/index_en.html
Posted Wednesday 4th March 2009 15:32 GMT
Peyton
Hotblack Desiato's car? #
Paint the white parts black and that'd make a nice little ride.
Posted Wednesday 4th March 2009 15:36 GMT
Lionel Baden
as much as i like it #
never ever ever be allowed on the streets
if chavs are getting pulled for 70% tint that thing will be impossible to drive legally
Posted Wednesday 4th March 2009 15:36 GMT
Fluffykins
Basalt Fibre #
OMG, I just like saying that!
Basalt Fibre
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Posted Wednesday 4th March 2009 15:36 GMT
Greg
WANT! #
WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT!
And not just so I can reprogram the outside of the car to say "FUCK YOU" to BMW drivers.
Of course, you'd have to rip out the crappy electric engine and replace it with something cooler.
Posted Wednesday 4th March 2009 15:36 GMT
Code Monkey
User configurable lights #
If I could configure the lights to spell out "You're driving like a complete bell-end. Yes you, the arsewit in the grey 3 Series" I'd be very interested.
Posted Wednesday 4th March 2009 15:36 GMT
Vision Aforethought
Vehicle 'skins' next? #
So, in the not too distant future, we'll be able to hit 'SkinMyRide.com' and download le pattern de jour - perhaps even have your AutoSkin change depending on the time of day and location?
"No M'Lud, I was not driving a black BMW three series, mines the swirly green and yellow effect, well, it was at 9pm anyway..."
Posted Wednesday 4th March 2009 21:23 GMT
g e
Excellent Communication potential #
If just to be able to have the rear say 'FUCK YOU' when you have to pull in before an HGV to actually get off the slip road and the bastard turns his 50MW lamps on cos he has to lose 0.3MPH, resulting in an interior-mirror-shaped tan line across your nose.
Posted Wednesday 4th March 2009 21:23 GMT
Anonymous Coward
The Cost? #
I can't see this being in the "affordable" category...
Posted Wednesday 4th March 2009 21:23 GMT
Bytus
What's with the BMW bashing? #
Honestly guys, you're worse than Apple fanbois / 'Nix freaks / M$ bitches (choose one of the camps).
Tststs.
Posted Wednesday 4th March 2009 21:27 GMT
Al Taylor
@Paolo #
Well spotted that man. Thanks.
Posted Thursday 5th March 2009 00:44 GMT
Mike Richards
World's largest... #
...fingerprint magnet.
Kind of funky looking though.
Posted Thursday 5th March 2009 10:18 GMT
Danny Thompson
By the time ... #
... any of these "concept" cars make it to the showrooms we'll have burned up our last drop of oil. Oh, hang on, thats the idea isn't it? I mean, how can it take so long to actually make and ship these things? All the tech is well established. What we need is some Government and Manufacturer commitment and we're done.
Instead all we get is this ridiculous posturing and not actual product.
To all the nay-sayers of electric tech - welcome to history, this is the inevitability, its no use harping on about how it wont work. I do believe much the same was said by horsemen of old about the ICE. They got that a bit wrong too.
I swear, apart from the OLED I'm not finding the IT angle
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