GM Wins First Place in Blue Sky Concept Design
LOS ANGELES – GM Advanced Design has won the Los Angeles Auto Show’s Design Challenge for the second year in a row. This year’s winning entry is a two-dimensional rendering of a 2015 Blue Sky Concept that addresses environmental sustainability. Called the HUMMER 02, this design proves that daily use of a vehicle could result in a net gain for the environment.
The 2006 Design Challenge theme is Environmental Sustainability, a challenge for design studios to transform the future of driving into an environmental experience. Contest guidelines also required that vehicle entries be 100-percent recyclable and have a maximum lifespan of just 60 months. GM’s entry is presented as a series of two-dimensional images, not as a 3D model.
Designers at GM’s West Coast Advanced Design Studio in Southern California tackled the far-reaching challenge – to develop a concept that resulted in a net gain for the environment. The GM team crafted an entry that surpasses the contest’s sustainability principles: the HUMMER O2 Concept.
“The HUMMER O2 epitomizes the ethos of the true Southern California outdoors enthusiast with rugged capability, a ‘tread lightly’ contact system and construction methods promoting safety, accessibility and reusability,” said Frank Saucedo, director, GM Advanced Design in California . “Most vehicles in L.A. spend 95 percent of their time outdoors subjected to sunlight, so why couldn’t a vehicle give back?”
To fully understand the HUMMER O2, the GM team believes that terms commonly associated with ecology and biology work best.
Photosynthesis
The HUMMER 02 Concept features a revolutionary phototropic body shell that produces pure oxygen throughout the life of the vehicle. Algae-filled body panels transform carbon dioxide into pure oxygen that is subsequently released back into the environment and inside the vehicle.
“The panels essentially function as the ‘leaves’ of the HUMMER O2 and effectively clean the air in the surrounding environment,” said Saucedo. “Used algae are recycled as biomass for the further production of energy.”
Breathing
The HUMMER 02 promotes the production of oxygen by a two-way valve system in the corner of each panel. The sophisticated devices control and monitor the amount of carbon dioxide and source nutrition needed for the algae cultivation while optimizing oxygen production and distribution.
Energy
Four modular and self-contained fuel cells power hydraulic motors built into each wheel. A hydrogen tank is placed in an ideal central location for safety and structural purposes, becoming the “heart” of the vehicle.
Footprint
Active Tread TM tires provide low resistance on the highway while allowing excellent off-road progress as their shape changes – adapting to and protecting the surrounding environment.
Structure
Finally, to further reduce environmental impact, the HUMMER O2’s construction specifies the use of 100-percent post-consumer materials, including an aluminum frame, seats finished with Volatile Organic Components-free (VOC-free) materials and glazing via PETE (similar to everyday consumer packaging, such as soda bottles).
The GM West Coast Advanced Design Studio won the 2005 Design Challenge competition with its GMC PAD Concept, a mobile urban loft designed for the L.A. environment.
More photos here:
http://www.j-body.org/gallery/gallery.php?eid=628&start=&sdir=Hummer+O2+Concept
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very cool. its really neat to see the major automakers taking steps toward lowering environmental impacts and promoting a sustainable way of life.
Weird looking but nice.
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its great that they design this @!#$ but how bout a contest where they actually build something that makes a big difference
themarin8r wrote:its great that they design this @!#$ but how bout a contest where they actually build something that makes a big difference
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they can make these absolutely AMAZING vehicles
and have been able to for decades.
yet whats always the next vehicle out? a blah gas guzzling car or suv
this concept is absolute genius
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its almost something hot wheels would do , LOL
now if they can get rid of the suv metality they will get ahead
That is what I think farm vehicles will look like in 2100.
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lmfao just put the name deere. its already got the tractor tires.lol
maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow....... but some day
Wooo, cutting edge design for some random, useless contest to stack another trophy on the GM shelf. Guess what GM, your platforms are outdated, your engines are not at the forefront of technology and the North American division seems to be obsessed with designing vehicles catered to the 60+ crowd. New Impala? Ugly. Newer Malibu? Ugly. I even dislike the extremely plain Cobalt.
GM Australia owns. GM Europe owns. I want an Opel Astra turbo. Maybe a HSV Monaro or whatever.. mmm, beautiful cars! What is the North American equivilent? NONE.
I say comapanies stop wasting time with pipe-dreams and start putting their efforts into developing products people actually take to.
I refrained from making the first comment when Dave first posted this but I'm sorry to say this but it'll be the day when GM (however innovative this design is) makes an environmentally safe 'Hummer' production car in general.
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kidduntradishunal wrote:Wooo, cutting edge design for some random, useless contest to stack another trophy on the GM shelf. Guess what GM, your platforms are outdated, your engines are not at the forefront of technology and the North American division seems to be obsessed with designing vehicles catered to the 60+ crowd. New Impala? Ugly. Newer Malibu? Ugly. I even dislike the extremely plain Cobalt.
GM Australia owns. GM Europe owns. I want an Opel Astra turbo. Maybe a HSV Monaro or whatever.. mmm, beautiful cars! What is the North American equivilent? NONE.
I say comapanies stop wasting time with pipe-dreams and start putting their efforts into developing products people actually take to.
I EMPHATICALLY CONCUR!!!!!
^But the one we left on the moon was the drop-top version.
themarin8r wrote:kidduntradishunal wrote:Wooo, cutting edge design for some random, useless contest to stack another trophy on the GM shelf. Guess what GM, your platforms are outdated, your engines are not at the forefront of technology and the North American division seems to be obsessed with designing vehicles catered to the 60+ crowd. New Impala? Ugly. Newer Malibu? Ugly. I even dislike the extremely plain Cobalt.
GM Australia owns. GM Europe owns. I want an Opel Astra turbo. Maybe a HSV Monaro or whatever.. mmm, beautiful cars! What is the North American equivilent? NONE.
I say comapanies stop wasting time with pipe-dreams and start putting their efforts into developing products people actually take to.
I EMPHATICALLY CONCUR!!!!!
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There is really something wrong when a veteran American nameplate like Buick (that is not known for being international) sells better in China then at home.
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kidduntradishunal wrote:Wooo, cutting edge design for some random, useless contest to stack another trophy on the GM shelf. Guess what GM, your platforms are outdated, your engines are not at the forefront of technology and the North American division seems to be obsessed with designing vehicles catered to the 60+ crowd. New Impala? Ugly. Newer Malibu? Ugly. I even dislike the extremely plain Cobalt.
GM Australia owns. GM Europe owns. I want an Opel Astra turbo. Maybe a HSV Monaro or whatever.. mmm, beautiful cars! What is the North American equivilent? NONE.
I say comapanies stop wasting time with pipe-dreams and start putting their efforts into developing products people actually take to.
To be fair we are getting the North American equivilent of the Astra in 2008. Probably not the turbo, but it's a start. But I totally agree. They sell all the good cars elsewhere.
I also have to say, maybe GM should spend a little less time winning useless competitions, and more time desigining a car that can go longer than a few days without something going wrong, that isn't made to lower quality standards than a Russian Lada, that nobody wants to buy anyway.
