GM Wins Enviro Design Contest

Top honors for the Los Angeles Auto Show's Design Challenge were awarded to GM for its Hummer 02, a two-dimensional rendering that addresses environmental sustainability. The Challenge, a contest for design studios, encourages designers to share their vision of how future driving can be transformed into an environmental experience. Vehicle entries must be 100 percent recyclable and offer a maximum lifespan of just five years.

 

GM designers at the automaker's West Coast Advanced Design Studio tackled the challenge with a design featuring a phototropic body shell that produces pure oxygen throughout the life of the vehicle, algae-filled body panels that transform carbon dioxide into pure oxygen, and four modular fuel cells that power hydraulic motors built into each wheel. The vehicle's overall construction is of 100 percent post-consumer materials.