4 July

The Vision AVTR is a Mercedes concept car. The AVTR uses four electric motors nearly inside each of its wheels. Each motor and each wheel can operate independently of the others, meaning the car can move sideways like a crab or turn almost within its own wheelbase. The car is driven by a single flat joystick, which the driver presses downwards depending on which direction they want to go including sideways, around in circles etc. The motors produce nearly 500 horsepower. The battery pack uses graphene-based organic cell chemistry, which can also be produced without using any rare earth minerals. And it’s recyclable. Mercedes projects that charging the battery, with a capacity of 100 kilowatt-hours, could take only 15 minutes. A 100 kWh battery would have a range of well over 1000km. The world coming towards us is bitchin’. If you’re open-minded enough to let it.