2010 Pininfarina Nido EV

September 1st, 2010 - Posted in Minivan

The exterior design of the VE Nido incorporates and updates the lines and volumes Nido, which won the 2004 price of the most beautiful car in the world, prototypes and concept cars category, the Golden Compass 2008 a place in the temple of modern art, MoMA in New York. Secondly, within this first draft Nido EV are still those of an engineering prototype, with no attempt at stylistic research.

The EV Nido is a laboratory designed to explore both the electrification of a small city car and develop a floor, modular. The body structure of this first prototype is a tubular steel frame, while the final version will have an aluminum frame. The structure was designed to accommodate four different hybrids or fully electric vehicles: two-seater, 2 2, pickup and van.

During the energy crisis of the 1970s These years have also produced the Ecos, the first electric car developed by Pininfarina, stressing that it was at the forefront in an area that the car industry is just beginning to reassess recently. In the 1980s, research Pininfarina in the application of lightweight materials has resulted in the Audi Quartz and Lancia Hit prototypes, which explored the use of new lightweight materials and metallic compounds. The 1990s have a better understanding of environmental problems, more research in the field of recyclable materials and ergonomic design and a more efficient way to package the vehicle. Pininfarina offered new solutions with the Comprehensive Project Ethos, a family of three cars with aluminum chassis, bodywork recycled resin and a combustion engine with innovative emissions reductions, setting up the Ethics 3EV 1995 Another zero-emission car. More recently, Pininfarina has focused his research on hybrid vehicles, with the Eta Beta and Metrocubo projects, two small car modular cabins also address the problems of urban driving on routes and means. Then in 2004, Pininfarina returns to the issue of security, which he had spoken with the Sigma, and Sigma Alfa Romeo P33 prototype Grand Prix, and in 2008 it proposed the Sintesi, a futuristic concept car powered by 4 cells fuel (one per wheel). source

2010 Pininfarina Nido EV Design Interior