Citroen has invented a cardboard automobile

STORY: Would you purchase this recyclable automobile

comprised of cardboard?

Citroen’s new ‘Oli’ idea automobile was designed

in anticipation of future useful resource shortages

Its roof and hood is comprised of a

specialised cardboard with plastic coating

instead of metal and metallic

(Anne Laliron, Citroen Head of Future Merchandise)

“With Oli, we are saying sufficient – sufficient of oversizing of vehicles, with many options that you will by no means use. Some options are used 2 p.c of the time. So we mentioned, ‘OK, how can we cut back to what’s actually needed for day-to-day life with our clients?’ And in doing that, we lowered the variety of digital boards, the variety of options which are perhaps not utterly helpful or that clients don’t actually use, and by doing that, we lowered the burden and we lowered additionally the electrical consumption of the automobile.”

Oli can be designed to be straightforward to restore

so it might probably final a minimum of

three generations, or 50 years

(Anne Laliron, Citroen Head of Future Merchandise)

“Now we have to handle local weather, world warming, and we’ve got to behave, to do one thing. We’re all privy to that. Within the meantime, households nonetheless have to be cellular and to have this freedom of mobility. And we’re actually in an important second for the automotive business. Will we nonetheless present and produce vehicles the way in which we did up to now? Or do we modify the paradigm as a way to optimize our environmental footprint and assist our clients to cut back additionally their environmental footprint?”