Alleged Future Volvo Electric Vehicle Sketch Surfaces

Volvo Electric Vehicle design sketch illustration - 800 - 25.01.2010

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ivanadrive

Oh no, you could put any badge on that sketch. There's nothing distinctive about it.

January 25, 2010 9:44 pm

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Han Solo

Is there an unwritten rule somewhere that all Electric Cars are suppose to be an ugly hatchback??? Does Volvo think that a hatchback would makle their cars look sportier??? I dont think so... I personally hate hatcbacks... Why not a good old sleek and elegant Sedan?

January 25, 2010 10:14 pm

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Aleksi

Did you read anything written in the article? It says that this sketch is just one of the Volvo designers playing around. Dan Johnston says "We won't have an electric vehicle that looks like an electric vehicle. It won't be like a Prius. You'll see the continuation of [our] design language on the C30."

January 26, 2010 1:48 pm

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2010S5

Looks like something that would've come out of Japan.

January 26, 2010 4:08 am

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Beybaba

Looks like something that would've come out of my pen.

January 26, 2010 8:57 am

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mphillips12000

I'll take their word that it's just a sketch - and as a graphic and product designer, I know I go through plenty of them before I reach my end product - so I wouldn't assume anything remotely like this drawing to be produced by Volvo. It simply has none of their brand design language: the angularity, the broad, hard shoulder line, the delicate greenhouse. The new S60 and XC60 have taken small evolutionary steps away from that direction, but this sketch looks more like a Mazda out-take than anything from Sweden.

January 26, 2010 12:31 pm

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RzGTmorio

It's strange this prototype

January 26, 2010 2:52 pm

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djohnston

Just a drawing. I have lots of similiar doodling from past designers. Now if you see this in clay or concept car, then all bets are off. In reality we are too small to make stand alone EV's. Our engine compartment and engine cradle system can be fitted with many different power systems w/o changing sheet metal. A nice sedan would be sweet, like our new S60. What you'll see is as mentioned, our existing design language, updated as the years go by, with many different power systems. dan Volvo www.thecarthatstopsitself.com

February 5, 2010 1:23 pm

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