{"id":1665387,"date":"2022-09-29T18:53:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T22:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1665387"},"modified":"2022-09-29T18:54:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T22:54:25","slug":"citroen-invents-cardboard-car-for-resourceless-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/citroen-invents-cardboard-car-for-resourceless-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Citro\u00ebn invents cardboard car for resourceless world"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcitroen-invents-cardboard-car-for-resourceless-world%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1665387&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Gilles Guillaume<\/p>\n<p>LA PLAINE ST DENIS, France (Reuters) \u2013     Imagine a future world starved of resources where carmakers have to resort to replacing the metal in your car\u2019s roof and hood with cardboard.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>That\u2019s what Citro\u00ebn has done with a new concept car designed in anticipation of a resourceless world, using cardboard instead of steel for those parts.<\/p>\n<p>This is no ordinary cardboard, but a specialised honeycomb format reinforced with plastic coating on each side that is strong enough to be stood on without buckling.    <\/p>\n<p>It was developed in partnership with German chemical giant BASF. This and a vertical windscreen designed to reduce the amount of glass needed and save weight make the electric Citro\u00ebn \u201cOli\u201d concept car look like a futuristic SUV.<\/p>\n<p>During the Soviet era, a common, erroneous, urban myth held that the Trabant, a small two-stroke engine car produced in the former East Germany, had a body made of reinforced cardboard \u2013 and if it rained hard enough you could punch a hole in it. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, the Trabant was made of \u201cduroplast\u201d, a plastic reinforced with recycled cotton waste from the former Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>Citro\u00ebn, which is part of world No. 4 carmaker Stellantis, and BASF have succeeded in turning popular legend into reality. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s more than just a concept car like you\u2019re used to seeing,\u201d Citro\u00ebn director of future products Anne Laliron told Reuters. \u201cIt\u2019s almost an expression of new lifestyles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Designers at Dacia, the low-cost brand of Renault, have also tried their hand at this exercise, coming up with the \u201cManifesto\u201d concept car. Unveiled in mid-September, it also seems to have come out of a \u201cMad Max\u201d movie, set in a post-apocalypse world where oil is worth more than gold.<\/p>\n<p>ROAD MAP<\/p>\n<p>Dacia\u2019s off-roader is a bare-bones vehicle focused on the basics, including a cork dashboard where you can pin a good old-fashioned paper road map in the event there is no signal for GPS navigation.    <\/p>\n<p>To account for the possible effects of climate change and component shortages, the Citro\u00ebn Oli weighs under 1 tonne (1,000 kg) and cannot exceed 110 kilometers (68 miles) per hour. <\/p>\n<p>Wire harnesses have been removed from the door panels \u2013 which only have eight parts versus an average of 35 in today\u2019s cars \u2013 the key lock has returned and the dashboard uses information from the driver\u2019s mobile phone for communication or entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>The windows open manually and the vertical windscreen \u2013 which also cuts the impact of solar radiation inside the vehicle and thus reduces the need for air conditioning \u2013 means a vent must be fitted on the hood to recreate a windscreen\u2019s effect on vehicle aerodynamics.   <\/p>\n<p>Oli is also designed to be recyclable and easy to repair so that it can last at least three generations, or 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an object that will last, that we will be able to repair, always bearing in mind that we used resources to manufacture it,\u201d Laliron said. \u201cWe must therefore make it last as long as possible.\u201d     <\/p>\n<p>Work on the concept car began in 2019 and has arrived in an era beset by raw material shortages caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear that what we have  experienced in the last few years has further strengthened our intuition, our ambition,\u201d Laliron said.<\/p>\n<p> (Writing by Nick Carey, editing by Ed Osmond)<\/p>\n<p><a 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