Concept Cars
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Renault provides a look ahead beyond 2025, to the potential shape of a shared-mobility electric vehicle.
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BMW Concept i4 teases German alternative to Tesla Model 3 due next year
The BMW i4 will directly take on a vehicle that has chipped away at the gasoline 3-Series' market share in North America.
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DS Aero Sport Lounge concept electric car is so very avante-garde
France's PSA is showing a flamboyantly styled, fully electric crossover in a concept bound for the upcoming Geneva Motor Show.
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Polestar Precept concept teases future flagship four-door electric car
The Precept concept is much larger than the Polestar 2 that's soon reaching the market. It has all the makings of a flagship for the EV brand.
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Jaguar Land Rover reveals electric "concept platform" for future urban mobility
The British automaker gives a glimpse of a more egalitarian electric-vehicle future with an urban-mobility concept.
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Hyundai Prophecy electric vehicle concept teased for Geneva show
Hyundai's concept car for the Geneva motor show next month is expected to be another glimpse of the carmaker's electric-vehicle future.
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The same electric-car toolkit will share battery and propulsion pieces but allow a lot of flexibility—even for e-Power series hybrids.
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CES: Mercedes-Benz "Avatar" concept looks ahead to more environmentally responsible batteries
The AVTR concept car uses organic graphene cells without rare-earth metals, a battery technology that could provide a more ecologically sound future for vehicles.
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Vision-T is the next Hyundai Tucson, with concept plug-in hybrid powertrain
Hyundai perhaps also hints with this concept that it's looking to offer plug-in hybrids on a wider range of models.
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Volkswagen ID Space Vizzion electric-car concept shows off the spacious side of MEB
VW's MEB platform for electric vehicles could also be the foundation for some innovation in spacious, family-sized wagons.
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Kia Futuron concept points to the electric "SUV coupe" of the future
Kia shows promise of being adventurous with its electric-car designs in the future with a concept aiming many years ahead.
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Audi AI:Trail concept splices trail-ready with autonomous-ready
Off-road capability and autonomous-driving readiness might not be mutually exclusive. The Audi AI:Trail concept from Frankfurt shows how.
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With an electric car concept shown at the Frankfurt auto show, Hyundai is showing the direction for future mainstream long-range EVs.
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Audi AI:Trail concept teased: Are off-road and autonomous mutually exclusive?
A concept due for reveal at the 2019 Frankfurt auto show shows how autonomous driving might not entirely be at odds with the off-road trail.
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Hyundai 45 EV concept for Frankfurt show to highlight new design language
A Hyundai electric-car concept is coming to the upcoming Frankfurt auto show; it will show a new design theme and be built on a dedicated EV platform.
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Just ahead of electric-car push, voice systems are about to get much smarter
VW is testing a system developed in Silicon Valley, using a next-generation dialog manager to parse natural-language voice commands from multiple users.
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Electric Volkswagen Type 20 Microbus concept ties the past to the future
A concept from VW called the Type 20 celebrates the automaker's Silicon Valley presence, which predates Tesla, and points to future tech.
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BMW M Next concept points to i8 successor: More electric range, a lot more power
The Vision M Next is a plug-in hybrid sports car concept that uses the quirky i8 as a jumping point to something more exotic.
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Genesis is the newest brand trying to take a piece of a global luxury-vehicle market still dominated by German makers. Last night, in New York City, the Korean brand revealed its first-ever electric car concept. Unusually these days, the Genesis Mint Concept isn’t a crossover utility vehicle. Instead, Genesis imagined its first electric car as a tiny, low, sleek two-person coupe with a radically stripped-down interior. Few technical details were provided, though Genesis cited 200 miles of battery range. It also said the Mint concept includes 350-kilowatt charging—an ultrafast rate...
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Infiniti Qs Inspiration is the automaker's idea for an EV sport sedan
Infiniti is on the back foot for electrified powertrains today. The luxury automaker quietly shelved its hybrid powertrains in the past few years in the buildup toward an all-electric lineup sometime in the next few years. On Wednesday, ahead of the 2019 Shanghai auto show, the Infiniti Qs...
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Fiat Concept Centoventi electric car opens Mopar toolbox, looks beyond 500e
Fiat is 120 years old, and for the Geneva Motor Show the Italian automaker is presenting an electric concept car that celebrates the brand’s “democratic mobility” charge while providing a glimpse of what that idea could mean in the future. The carmaker started with a...
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VW ID Buggy teases potential of electric-car platform with some beach fun
Volkswagen has already served up a suite of concepts for its upcoming electric vehicles built on its modular electric architecture (MEB). While most of those are likely headed to volume production in some form, now it’s brought out a fun one: the VW ID Buggy concept. In a release on the...
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Kia EV concept showcases brand’s future, more electrified design direction
With its "Imagine by Kia" concept car revealed today at the Geneva Motor Show, Kia aims to show that electric cars don’t have to look boring—that, actually, they can look exciting and emotional. The concept is, as Kia puts it, “a visual embodiment of Kia’s desire to move...
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Volkswagen confirms electric dune buggy concept for Geneva auto show
A VW beach buggy made for blasting over the sand may ride again. Volkswagen confirmed Wednesday that it will show a concept electric dune buggy at the Geneva auto show in March. Rumors circulated in December that the brand was considering such a move. READ MORE: Fun revival: Electric dune buggy...
Eric C. Evarts