Toyota's environmentally friendly concept car

Automotive designers and architects are two different artists who very rarely work together. But Toyota wanted to combine both to create a special concept named Toyota ME.WE.

Toyota Me.We Concept. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/1Gjv6v6)

Since 2011 the Toyota Europe design studio in Nice, ED2 in collaboration with Jean-Marie Massaud, a French Architect, they have sought to create a vehicle that answered all the environmental challenges by bringing an independent vision and experience of the automotive industry.

Its name is derived from the simultaneous attention to a human (ME) and others (WE). This concept car has three main concerns, namely Accuracy, Synthesis, and Modernity.

Interior view of Toyota Me.We Concept. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/1jCjlpy)

This vehicle can be said to be a modern car with a global view, which is formed of the extent of adaptation to the environmental challenges that will shape the future of personal transportation. In short, Toyota Me.We reflects a transition from a culture of progress becomes a good culture.

Dashboard view of Toyota Me.We Concept. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/1ku1ssV)

Toyota concept car's structure is made of lightweight aluminum pipes and polyproylene panels. So the Me.We Concept has a weight of 750 kg, lighter 20% than the supermini car that uses a steel material. It has dimensions, 3,440 x 1,750 x 1,600 mm.

Rear side view of Toyota Me.We Concept. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/1Gjv6v6)

Interestingly, the Me.We Concept panels is also 100 percent recyclable. Its weight is very light, only 14 kg. And bamboo is used as materials for flooring and some horizontal ornaments, the material selection have been because it can be replaced easily and have a nice aesthetic value, as well as easy to clean.

The Me.We idea to pull in element to think about as well as windshield to be brought down the back seat rail that can be conveniently rooted out, bamboo ground area, and also a phase that vacates the storage space compartment as well as used to need added devices.

Toyota Me.We Concept is also equipped with 4 electric motors, which uses motors in the wheel (in-wheel motors) as owned by Toyota i-Road. As for the battery is placed under the car floor similar to the Toyota iQ EV. In the absence of an instrument driver that interfere in the cabin, the interior is only intended for passengers and goods.

Latest Toyota concept car that carries the unique design is indeed prepared to target the market segment of contemporary society with relatively low operating costs. And the Me.We Concept could be a city car, convertible, or pickups, and even the car with a box shape is with a box shape is able to bring you to crossed the off-road terrain. 

Toyota Me.We concept cars have been exhibited at Le Rendez-vous Toyota experience center in Champs Elysées, Paris in 2013 ago. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | CARANDDRIVER]

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