There's nothing new under the Sun

[dpeilow]

Sounds familiar...

For the New Year, a look back at a 1967 electric vehicle from BMW (that's Boulevard Machine Works) - AutoblogGreen


Anyone know any more about this one?

 

[TEG]

 

[doug]

I like how instead of just lifting the hood (bonnet) the whole body of the car lifts up.

 

[TEG]

There are some other cars that lift big parts of the bodywork a bit like that.

Lancia Stratos:

And the Ford GT40...

And of course big rig trucks:

 

[vfx]

TEG posts a picture of my favorite car of all time!

Too bad it's not electric.

 

[dpeilow]

Continuing the "There's nothing new under the Sun" series:

Ford's (admittedly slower) 1960s take on the Th!nk: The Comuta, a Ford electric car, is under test - Times Archive

And another design whose advances got rejected by Ford the year before... Electric Car Could Cover 60 Miles For 3s. - Times Archive


The technology may have moved on, but the aspirations still resonate. :frown:


(Linked from this Model S article)

 

[graham]

I like that the future version of the 1966 car was tailored to use a Fuel Cell in place of the batteries. But the Fuel cells of the day were too cumbersome, heavy and expensive.

 

[dpeilow]

Yeah, that made me smile.

Interesting that the "expensive" £1000 fuel cell would be the equivalent of £13330 in today's money.

 

[dpeilow]

Another lesson from history:

http://knol.google.com/k/detroit-electric-vintage-electric-car