Shell city car concept coming

By CARSIFU | 9 April 2015


THE HAGUE: Shell is working with race and road car designer Professor Gordon Murray and engine specialist Osamu Goto to co-engineer an ultra-compact, efficient car for city use based around the internal combustion engine.

The Shell concept is intended to be a simple, practical global city car, drawing together the most innovative aspects of light-weight engineering, streamlining, and driveline efficiency and work well whether you are in a city where mass-motoring is a relatively new thing or already a century-old. Once built, the car will be tested on-the-road.

The concept is intended to inspire thinking about maximising personal mobility while minimising energy use, helping people get around the world’s ever-more congested cities where, by 2050, up to three quarters of the world’s estimated nine billion people could be living.

Project M Concept Drawing.
Project M Concept Drawing.


Started by Shell, the collaboration, known as Project M, brings together Shell’s Lubricant’s Technology Team, The Gordon Murray Design Group and engine specialist Geo Technology. This collaboration between the three expert teams means that the development of the lubricants, engine and vehicle will be integrated delivering results neither group could achieve by working apart.

The Shell car is scheduled to be unveiled in November 2015 and people will be able to follow the development of the car through the website www.shell.com/Projectm.

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