Citroen's future vision

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Neil Dowling
Contributing Journalist
8 Feb 2011
1 min read

So just for you, a Citroen-sponsored "visionary'' has created a three-wheeled vehicle for the future that places the driver at the centre of the main wheel.

The "E-3POD Antistatic'' is an electric single seater that won its designer, Heikki Juvonen, a six-month employment contract at the PSA Design Centre in Paris.

One of a series of submissions by Royal College of Arts second year students in London, the ultra-light, micro segment, single-seater is designed as an urban commuter.

It is not meant to replace cars, but to be an addition to the family transport fleet positioned between bicycles and cars.  The E-3POD has a simplified, lightweight construction to make it affordable and has an emphasis on aerodynamics to minimise the electric motor's required battery size.

The rear wheel is a structural element, there is shared suspension for both front wheels and it has scratch-resistant plastic for the canopy.  Judges say the E-3POD provides the user with easy, cost efficient transport with access to easier parking due to the small footprint.

Second prize went to the designer who created a cage in which to park the Antistatic.

Neil Dowling
Contributing Journalist
GoAutoMedia Cars have been the corner stone to Neil’s passion, beginning at pre-school age, through school but then pushed sideways while he studied accounting. It was rekindled when he started contributing to magazines including Bushdriver and then when he started a motoring section in Perth’s The Western Mail. He was then appointed as a finance writer for the evening Daily News, supplemented by writing its motoring column. He moved to The Sunday Times as finance editor and after a nine-year term, finally drove back into motoring when in 1998 he was asked to rebrand and restyle the newspaper’s motoring section, expanding it over 12 years from a two-page section to a 36-page lift-out. In 2010 he was selected to join News Ltd’s national motoring group Carsguide and covered national and international events, launches, news conferences and Car of the Year awards until November 2014 when he moved into freelancing, working for GoAuto, The West Australian, Western 4WDriver magazine, Bauer Media and as an online content writer for one of Australia’s biggest car groups. He has involved himself in all aspects including motorsport where he has competed in everything from motocross to motorkhanas and rallies including Targa West and the ARC Forest Rally. He loves all facets of the car industry, from design, manufacture, testing, marketing and even business structures and believes cars are one of the few high-volume consumables to combine a very high degree of engineering enlivened with an even higher degree of emotion from its consumers.
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