When any current driver of a regular car goes to a gas station and gives from a third to half a living wage for a full tank, he involuntarily sighs and thinks: “When will these engineers come up with something new?” Hopes that someday oil will significantly fall in price are shared by units from current car owners. But the most depressing thing is not even this, but that the concentrated organic matter that nature prepared in the bowels of the earth for the millennium, and from which priceless materials can be obtained, we burn for decades, “heating” the atmosphere and “fertilizing” it with harmful gases. Where is the way out and what do car manufacturers see in it?
Most modern car designers are likened to women’s handbag designers: they endlessly change “predatory” lines to “aggressive” ones, building them over motor-body solutions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. All this is abundantly flavored with intelligent computer systems, which lose reliability in proportion to "smartness." Recently, great have taken up hybrid electrodisels. The idea that a car’s battery most of the time fidgets and charges in vain, just like a generator works in vain, “pushes” designs that operate on the principle of a reasonable “push-pull” between an internal combustion engine and a car’s electrical system loaded with high-torque electric motors. Electric cars are also developing actively, but either scare consumers away at the cost of, or the lack of the ability to travel far without recharging.
With an interesting realization of the idea of ​​a healthy combination of hybrid technology of movement and advanced body technologies, BMW has recently “noted” the car BMW Vision EfficientDynamics, which is not just shown to the public, but is promised for release in the fall of 2013. The five Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design design studios apparently got the catch and quickly reacted to the futuristic-fantasy Mercedes Benz BIOME, shown just three months after the Mercedes Benz BIOME Concept was shown to the public at the annual Design Challenge. With this concept, Mercedes looked into the “reasonable far”, which “will not be cruel to them” due to bio-technologies. True, these bio-technologies relate to DNA plants. With regard to heredity, current genetic engineering looks just as effective as an elephant in a china shop. This is not noticed only by those who, with the word "profit", have a complete defocus of vision. What did they come up with in Skolkovo, California, preparing for the next financial report?
The Mercedes Benz BIOME, presented to the public and photographers at the Los Angeles Automotive Design Competition, weighs just 394 kg and is made from a very lightweight material called BioFibre (“bio fiber”). BioFibre is a material obtained from plants with patented DNA, which is lighter than plastic, but stronger than steel. The same plant accumulates the BioNectar 4534 liquid extract, which will power the Mercedes Benz BIOME, while also generating oxygen. Making BioNectar 4534 with the help of certain receptors will also be imposed on all plants available to the owner of this car. To make a Mercedes Benz BIOME, you need six seeds. Wheels grow out of four seeds, and the other two shoots in the form of Mercedes three-beam stars, which, growing, form the inside of the body from the front seed-star and the outside of the body from the seed-star of the back. A bored car can be dissolved along with bird droppings in a compost pit.
In conclusion, I want to say that Mercedes BIOME looks very and very nice both externally and internally, but the commercial about its manufacturing technology looks as believable as the plots of cartoons about the communist future, released in the Soviet Union of Brezhnev era. The concept of growing and powering a Mercedes BIOME car is a vivid illustration of what a rational German design idea can turn into when it arrives in Hollywood.