Shell enlists Murray. Goto and the green car – La Gazzetta dello Sport

April 13, 2015 – Milan

The business of mobility, which has already attracted new protagonists extra sector as Google and Apple, will see in the next few years as part of the landing vehicles with low environmental impact of a third player planetarium, the colossus of fuels and lubricants Shell. In conjunction with the edition of the Detroit Marathon Shell – the event dedicated to the cars laboratory with ultra-low consumption, which took place this weekend – the Dutch Group has formalized the program to develop a global city car that will have the purpose of demonstrate how the traditional internal combustion engines will still evolve and be a solution for urban mobility with fuel consumption and emissions very contained.

Team – Called for the moment Project M, this compact car will be developed by a team of experts Shell (which will provide all the its know-how in the field of fuels and lubricants). Team also the former Formula One car designer Gordon Murray: in his car’s Brabham BT55 “sole” that took the life of Elio de Angelis but also, along with Steve Nichols, the McLaren MP4 / 4 that in the 1988 World GP dominated by winning 15 of 16 led by Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna who won the drivers’ title. Involved the Geo Technology, a company which belongs to another famous name the Formula 1. It is the engine specialist Osamu Goto, many years of working on the engines of Honda F1 and Ferrari. Among others designed the Honda RA109E, the V10 mounted on the McLaren MP4 / 5 of the 1989 season, manufacturers’ title, champion Prost, Senna vice.

shared project – The project’s goal is to assume a vehicle capable of meeting the needs of individual mobility in the coming decades, when the current one billion cars on the road in the world could double (according to IEA data) by 2050. In addition to technological innovation and constructive certainly characterize the new city car Shell – a first prototype should be submitted as early as next November – it will, as stated in the website of the Dutch group dedicated to Project M, a vehicle shared with users already in the phase of design and development. In fact, anyone can contribute ideas and comments on the issues of mobility, own or the city in which he lives, interacting for the next 31 days with the team of designers through the site. A mode, that of participation in the project of the users through social networks (the so-called crowdsourcing) that had already been used for the first time in the automotive world by Fiat in Brazil in 2009 to study and develop the concept of city car Mio, unveiled at the Sao Paulo the following year. Shell has not for the moment widespread technical information or images of his new car workshop (which for the moment will not be used for the production) but it is easy to assume that many solutions will refer to the city car designed by Gordon Murray T25 already in Britain.

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