The famous American designer Chris Bangle, who worked for a decade and a half as a chief designer of BMW, presented his new eccentric project. By order of the Chinese company CHTC Motor, he made a body for the urban electric car REDS, in which you can live.

Orthodox fans of the brand BMW cannot recall the name of Chris Bangle without a shudder and will never forgive him for the terrible, in their opinion, the "seven" of the E65 generation, which was released in the early 2000s.

Bangle left the Bavarian company in 2009 and founded his design Studio CBA (Chris Bangle Associates) in Italy. One of the CBA's clients was the automotive division of the state-owned Chinese industrial Corporation CHTC (China Hi-Tech Corporation), which is forced to maintain the policy set by the Communist party and the government to electrify the entire wheeled transport of the country. The "green" project of the urban electric car REDS is one of many, but it is obviously planned to be promoted outside of China: the presentation of the car was held this week in the US, in California, on the eve of the motor show in Los Angeles.

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The abbreviation REDS stands for Revolutionary Electric Dream Space. Outside REDS resembles a newspaper stall on wheels, painted by children with the makings of an artist Pablo Picasso - a very eccentric and specific appearance! Hippo "seven" BMW E65 on the background of "red's" seems the height of elegance!

Meanwhile, this is how, according to Bangle, a modern city electric car should look. It does not need much a good aerodynamics, because the speed and distance of movement are small, but excellent visibility and the most effective use of modest dimensions (length of the car — 2.97 m) should lead the Chinese automaker to success.

Windscreen and rear Windows of the electric vehicle are installed with a negative slope to create a shadow in the cabin and eliminate glare on the instrument panel. The flat roof is equipped with a solar battery for autonomous power supply of the microclimate system. The doors are flat and sliding. They should be convenient to use in tight urban space.

The car is capable of taking four passengers, but the trips for the "red's," according to the concept, not the main thing! The electric car should become for its owner an alternative habitat, a mobile home on wheels, in which you can work, relax and communicate with friends. You can put a laptop on the folding table, and the front seats can be folded and turned into leg supports — so you can recline and play computer games on a 17-inch monitor in the rear seats. The monitor, also, acts as an instrument panel: while driving it goes on 2/3 in the bowels of the front panel, so as not to limit the driver's view.

Nothing is yet known on the technical characteristics, except that they will be "the best in its class." It is also reported that the strong power structure of the body will allow the electric car to fit into the most stringent safety standards, that is, to get the maximum ratings of Euro NCAP and IIHS. It seems that even Chris Bangle himself does not know yet when production will begin: REDS is currently only an alpha prototype.

Photo: project-redspace.com, chrisbangleassociates.com