Usually transport designers think about moving people around, but people themselves think about the music they listen to or the interesting things they see, so people should be the kings and queens of travelling, moving in mobile sculptures instead of a series of homogenous boxes,” Thomas Heatherwick explains. “That’s why when I was designing a new electric car, the first place I went was Havana to see a city full of old, beautiful and distinctive vehicles.”
Heatherwick – who designed London’s new Routemaster buses, Coal Drop Yard and 2012’s spectacular Olympic cauldron – has created an electric car that looks so high concept and experimental, you’d assume it would never get made. Wandering around motor shows, you see them all the time – beautiful dreams that exist so briefly they might as well be mayflies, before the manufacturer returns to churning out the same old model with tiny tweaks.
