Can cars grow on trees? Mercedes-Benz thinks in the future, they can. Sounding like a premise for an Arthur C. Clarke story, the brand’s Advanced Design Studios in California showed the Biome concept, a vehicle that can be grown just like your favorite tomatoes and eggplants.
The Biome is made from an ultralight material called BioFibre, enabling the 2+2 passenger car to tip the scales at less than 400 kg. Reportedly lighter than plastic but stronger than steel, BioFibre is grown from proprietary DNA in a nursery. The interior of the car grows from the Mercedes star on the front, while the exterior grows from the rear badget. The wheels are grown from four separate seeds.
As for fuel, the car runs on something called BioNectar4534, which is produced the BioFibre material of the car. BioNectar4534 can also be harvested from specially-equipped trees.
And when your fern, er car, reaches the end of its life? Simply park it in your garden and let it be composted. Or chop it up and turn it into furniture.
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