Smart’s Forease is an over-the-top, topless EV concept - Yanko Design

In celebration of its 20th year ceremony, Smart (a subsidiary of Daimler AG) unveiled its Forease EV Concept at the Paris Motor Evidence. Designed to look pretty much like the dune buggy got an electric drivetrain and a makeover, the Forease looks refreshing and ambrosial, but shares something in common with the iPhone 7. Much like the latter killed the popular and borderline-necessary headphone jack, the Forease kills something popular and borderline-necessary too. The roof.

The Forease concept comes with literally no roof (it isn't a convertible, it'due south permanently topless), and its main designer, Gordon Wagener touts that "The smart Forease is proof that smart thinks unconventionally. Its design is reduced and pure. The smart Forease is a statement of urbanity and individual manner. It has the coolness of the urban center and demonstrates a truly complimentary spirit." which sounds positively Apple tree-ish, but you need to remember that the removal of the headphone jack came with an alternative… a dongle. The Forease doesn't propose an culling, unless you count the boot every bit a space to store raincoats and umbrellas that you lot're probably going to need when it starts raining or snowing.

The motorcar, aside from its glaring lack of overhead protection, is designed to portray a carefree attitude, one that grabs eyes… be it with its acid-greenish trims, or its uniquely styled headlights and taillights, or even the flush, seamlessly integrated door-handles (seem similar a purely ornamental detail, if yous remove the roof of a machine from the equation).

It isn't likely that the Forease will ever make it to the market place, but I believe smart's objective with presenting the concept was to showcase its electric technology, and its aesthetic direction more than anything else. If the Forease ever does brand information technology to production, the about plumbing fixtures scenario I encounter it being used is on a golf game course, replacing golf game carts… which, by the style, also take roofs.

Designer: smart