Visionary brilliance or flight of fantasy? Reap what you sow, say Mercedes-Benz engineers about their new Biome concept car, making its debut at the LA Auto Show.
The Mercedes-Benz Biome is made from an ultralight material called 'BioFibre'
The Biome, they say, will be grown in a "completely organic environment" from seeds sown in a nursery; a Mercedes-Benz nursery. Out on the road the car will emit not a cocktail of noxious gases, but pure oxygen. And at the end of its life-span it won’t be dragged off to the local dump to be dismantled in a pool of oil - it will be composted. Or used as building material.
“We wanted to illustrate the vision of the perfect vehicle of the future,” said Hubert Lee, head of the Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Studios in Carlsbad. “The Biome is a natural technology hybrid and forms part of our earth’s ecosystem. It grows and thrives like the leaves on a tree.”
It will, he says, be made from "BioFibre" and weigh just 875lbs (397kg). BioFibre, you see, will be grown from proprietary DNA in the MB nursery, where it will collect energy from the sun and store it in a liquid chemical bond called BioNectar4534.
The trip deepens: the interior of the Biome will grow from DNA contained in the Mercedes star on the front of the vehicle, while the exterior grows from the star on the rear. To accommodate specific customer requirements, the MB star will be genetically engineered, allowing the vehicle to grow accordingly.
Trees will help in the process too. They will be equipped with "special receptors" that collect solar energy, turning it into BioNectar, say the team from MB.-telegraph.co.uk
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