Renault Morphox

Renault Morphoz - Travel in 2025

This is Renault Morphoz (concept car) it’s a shape shifting car. It’s an all-electronic vehicle which can adjust its physical size by expanding as the user’s desire. It can be expanded based on the drive you taking today, it can be city drive for which the shorter version is quite suitable and for travel it changes to a bigger vehicle by expanding.

This is the expanded form of the car

 The reason behind the expansion is that Renault plans to make some Battery Station in the city where you can go onto that station and automatically battery gets inserted to the car so you can enjoy an extended drive time. Also increases the leg space in the front and gives a space around for everyone. The front section extends to 25cm and the back extends to another 15cm.

 Without expansion and daily city travel size of the car is 4.40 meters long with a wheelbase length of 2.73 meters. This is powered with Forty Kilowatt/Hr (40 kWh) which gives range of 249 miles

With the expansion the car extends up-to 4.80 meters long with a wheelbase length of 2.93 meters. This is powered with additional Fifty Kilowatt/Hr (50 kWh) which gives total combined 90(kWh) and extends the range to 435 miles.

When the battery needs to be extended you have to go to their batter station then the cars under-tray opens and automatically another 50kWh battery will be installed. The station would recharge the batteries until they are needed by another vehicle. In the meantime, it would use the batteries to store electricity from renewable energy sources or to power bike-sharing stations or street lighting.

The car is well equipped with Artificial Intelligence so it has many sensors and activities which it performs automatically. It uses sensors to detect the driver and opens the door using their facial recognition or the driver can ‘wave’ to activate its welcome sequence and set the interior lights on. The AI uses cars external sensors and cameras to identify the outside activity which helps in removing the conventional door mirrors.

When we come to the interior of the car this wood side panel acts as a sensor for connecting your phone to the car. The panel stays flat initially but when you place your smartphone, the flat panel turns into a mold as you can see in the above image and gives a grip to your device. The smartphone acts as a key to start your car. The driver gets certain codes which helps in unlocking and gives access to the car for certain amount of interval.

An oblong steering wheel with an entrenched 10.2 inch screen displays the safety and driving instructions when auto drive mode is active. But when manual driving is activated it displays a multimedia screen will display those information. If AI is linked with the smartphone then it will go through your personal data and gives you suggestions on your music, destination, and contacts. It can be controlled through touching the screen, hand gestures or by their voice.

The interior mats are also quite uniquely made from one direction it looks yellow and from other direction it looks black, another amazing part is that its completely made of recycled yogurt cups. Being an environment friendly car this just recycled cups add up a notch to it.  And the seats and belts are also made from fabric which used very less water in production. Renault chief designer Laurens van den Acker says he didn’t want the user to just think that this is an eco-friendly car but feel it by touching and experiencing that through their fabric as well. When the car is in its expanded stage the front passenger seat “flips” over, saying it again it doesn’t turn over but “flips’ over  so the passenger can interact with people behind them with ease during long drives. There is a touch screen multimedia player near the hand rest part, which has games, music player etc. So that people from behind can only control the media.

 Overall the Renault Morphoz is an excellent concept car, which works as both conventional daily car and also as travel car. With so sensors and AI built software this makes a fine car in the future.  

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Image and Information credits: Renault