Could Future Cars Be Made Locally, From Local Materials?

Forget the whole domestic versus foreign car debate. A designer imagines a radically different vision: growing materials to build cars, right in your hometown.

Although the technology inside cars is beginning to radically change for an electric, self-driven future, car exteriors look pretty much the way they always have. In a new project, a U.K.-based designer imagines how the shell of a car might shift too--from steel and plastic to locally-grown biological materials, changing the way that cars are manufactured, repaired, and recycled.

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