Audi has imagined a vehicle basically intended for shipping in Chinese megacities. Designed from the inside, the Urbansphere is a traveler who promises a non-public space, which is rare in those dense metropolitan areas. This well translates into a spacious cabin that intelligently connects physically and virtually to announce a sense of well-being on the go.
The Urbansphere was designed and evolved in collaboration between Audi’s art studios in Beijing and its German headquarters in Ingolstadt. And (a new concept for the company), potential local consumers participated in the process, contributing their wishes and reports to the development.
The interior looks like a living room with enough generation on board to serve as a cellular workspace. Chinese clients involved in the studio assignment sought to use their time in passenger traffic to work, rest or play. This is perfectly imaginable from Urbansphere. se imagines as a car of the future, so it’s driverless with the latest automated four-point generation that transforms the interior into one without the need for steering wheel, pedals or screens.
This latest concept joins two others from the Sphere family, Skysphere and Grandsphere, introduced last year, as Audi’s vision of how it envisions the mobility of tomorrow. Meanwhile, the Grandsphere Concept is a giant four-seater sedan that illustrates the brand’s ambition to outline the long-term of what it sees as progressive luxury.
This Urbansphere concept is a genuine examination of design from an interior point of view. Therefore, the doors are counter-articulated at the front and rear, there is no B-pillar, so that everyone, from the inside, opens to passengers when they go up. The seats rotate outward and a red-light pet is projected onto the ground next to the vehicle, making the act of getting in the car a touch of theater that has become increasingly imperative in the luxury experience.
At 5510 mm long, 2010 mm wide and 1780 mm high, the Urbansphere is the largest style of the trio. However, by filling this generous area with plenty of seats and devices, the designers used the 3400mm wheelbase to offer a spacious, open space. , unfurnished cabin area with very few visual distractions.
The design resembles a first-class cabin of an airline. There are 4 individual seats in two rows, with adjustable rear seats so that the backrest reclines 60 degrees and the leg rests are absolutely enlarged to form a sofa bed. The seats are also adapted to become social desires so that, while chatting, passengers can see each other face to face in their swivel chairs. Or, for a little isolation, they can hide the user’s head next to them using an intimacy screen fixed on the headrest. In addition, each seat has a sound domain with speakers in the headrest domain, while individual monitors are also built into the back of the front seats.
Naturally, being an imagined vehicle of the near future, the car provides built-in virtual access from other providers to access other travel-related arrangements. you get up and take car from mundane responsibilities like locating a parking area and charging the battery independently. Other concepts explored along the entire line come with the car recommending custom concerts and cultural and sporting events.
And the Urbansphere can be remodeled in a cinema. When invoked, a giant transparent OLED display rotates vertically from the roof domain to the domain between the rows of seats. It takes up the entire width of the interior so that the two passengers in the back row can participate in video conferences, watch videos or use the split-screen function to do their own work.
There is also a small history of sustainability inside. Carp wood veneers, for example, come from eco-friendly resources with wood grown near Audi’s facilities, while no chemicals are used for processing. The upholstery of the seats is made of Econyl, a recycled polyamide. , with a bamboo viscose fabric used in the armrests and rear of the vehicle. And because those fabrics are installed separately, they can be more easily recycled at the end of the car’s life.
The power is electric with any of the motors capable of delivering a total power of 295 kW (401 hp) and a formula torque of 690 Nm. The car is delivered with quattro permanent all-wheel drive and you have around 466 miles in one. battery loaded.
Skysphere, Grandsphere and Urbansphere are not direct references to long-life cars. Rather, they are design studies that explore the odds of the car as more than just a transport vehicle. four autonomous technologies, anything Audi and the Volkswagen Group’s software think tank, CARIAD, are trying to introduce at this point in the decade.
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