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I really wish industrial designers would leave the engineering to, you know, engineers. Nothing irks me than a designer trying his or her hand at conjuring up some magical, black box powerplant for their vehicle design studies. Take Amarpreet Gill for instance, a Leicester-based designer and the brains behind the blandly named Bristol Car Concept.
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Magical Thinking Breaks Amarpreet Gill’s Bristol Car Concept
I really wish industrial designers would leave the engineering to, you know, engineers. Nothing irks me than a designer trying his or her hand at conjuring up some magical, black box powerplant for their vehicle design studies. Take Amarpreet Gill for instance, a Leicester-based designer and the brains behind the blandly named Bristol Car Concept.
Using a combination of piezoelectric “threads†as well as photovoltaic paint and glass, the Bristol Car Concept “harvests energy from the surrounding environment, rewarding the consumer with the gift of free energyâ€.
Read more »- Gullwinged Bristol Fighter Demands Some Of Your Attention
Bristol is one of those companies you probably never heard of but you should, because of it has one of the quirkiest stories in the field of automotive manufacturing. Read more »...
- Bristol Cars’ Project Pinnacle Will Have A Bmw Engine
Bristol Cars is moving closer to the debut of its first new car in more than a decade, known under the codename Project Pinnacle. The company has released new details about the new model, with the highlight being that it will be powered by a BMW engine....
- This Is The Uk’s First Bus Running On Poo-derived Biomethane
The idea of running vehicles on methane obtained from sewage and waste is nothing new, although it seems to have taken a while for it to find actual use in the UK. There, the first bus running on biogas just went into service, taking passengers from...
- A New Bristol Car Is Finally Coming, Along With A Lot Of Bristol Merchandise
It looked like the days of the eccentric British automaker Bristol Cars were over in 2011 when they went bust. But under new ownership, they're coming back next year with a new car. Read more »...
- Honda Pegasus Study Inspired By... Harley Earl's Gm Firebird Concepts
Automotive designers find inspiration in all kinds of places. For independent designer Andrus Ciprian from Romania, it was Harley Earls' legendary GM Firebird concept cars of the 1950s. The thing is that he didn't use this inspiration on a GM...