Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Volkswagen's Concept Hovercraft is named by Aqua

CONCEPT of Volkswagen's hovercraft is a work of Zhang Yuhan, youth aged 21 graduates majoring in Industrial Design at the University of Xihua China. The concept vehicle, named by Aqua is a finalist CDN Volkswagen China Car Award, a competition that develop creativity of young designers.

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The challenge of the competition is creating an off-road vehicles the Chinese nation from the Volkswagen brand that can be invited to any field and should be appropriate to use to conquer the vast wilderness in the country of bamboo's curtain.

Hovercraft zero's emission is supported by air bearings and have the ability to traverse various types of surfaces just as the lake, river, wetlands, soil, snow, and ice. The vehicle is equipped with a number of electric motors powered by hydrogen fuel cells, including four propellers to push the vehicle moves forward.

Unfortunately, the concept vehicles designed to carry two passengers is not very detailed technical thrusts. They did not explain how to get into the vehicle, because there are no signs that describe the existence of the door.