Futuristic Nissan iV Electric Car Revealed

With the paint still drying on all of the new Nissan LEAFs, the auto maker is looking to the future of the car industry...and that future is nature.

Nissan Design America came up with the iV design for the 2010 LA Auto Show, taking place November 19-28. The LA Auto Show says,

In 2010, the innovative Nissan LEAF is introduced as the first mass-market electric vehicle (EV), planting seeds for Nissan’s vision of a zero-emissions future. Fast-forward to 2035: EVs and the green energy infrastructures that power them have matured into a fully sustainable system, bringing this dream to life.

The iV looks to nature for its beautiful marriage of form and function. It features a super-lightweight construction that showcases "organic synthetics" and an interwoven organic frame supported by a chassis based on fast-growing ivy and reinforced with spider silk composite.

The panoramic cabin supposedly seats four adults comfortably and is constructed from a photovoltaic material that weighs 99% less than traditional glass. Something the designers call a bio-slim battery boasts near limitless range, which is made possible by a regenerative super-capacitor system that reclaims 60% of the kinetic energy spent.

But Is It Just a Pipe Dream?

Unfortunately, concept designers often let their imaginations run away with them. On the other hand, projecting a concept 25 years into the future allows the mind to wonder if such things as car bodies built from ivy and spider silk really could be a possibility by then.

Then again, we were supposed to have flying cars by 2010 also...oh wait, we do.

Think how far technology has come in last decade. Technology advanced further than it had in the three decades before it combined...and those advances are accelerating exponentially still. Who knows, maybe we could have a car like this by 2035.

What do you think...could we?