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DRIVING THE FUTURE; Are we headed for hell in a hydrocarbon?(News)
Byline: MARK VAUGHN
The restored muscle car you keep in storage and drive on the occasional weekend isn't the problem.
The problem is 6 billion people, all of them wanting BMWs. If you take the situation today and extrapolate a generation or two, that seems to be what the future of wheeled mobility has in store for us.
To address that crowded future, Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, held its second annual Summit on Systems, Cities and Sustainable Mobility, featuring some of the world's leading thinkers on the subject.
The upshot: We might be able to get a handle on this.
To start, there were the obligatory futuristic "cars.''
"This uses half the energy of a GM EV1,'' boasted Jason Hill, designer of the Aptera (see photo above and sidebar below).
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Source: HighBeam Research, DRIVING THE FUTURE; Are we headed for hell in a hydrocarbon?(News)