Architecture firm Foster + Partners and auto brand Nissan have combined technologies including wireless charging, autonomous driving and battery storage to present a proposal for the future of vehicles and cities (+ movie).

Presented at the International Motor Show in Geneva this week, the proposal concludes the companies' year-long project to redesign electric car fuel stations.
But instead of a physical station, Nissan and Foster suggest that the cars themselves could be used to store and distribute renewable energy along a "smart street".

Nissan's fully electric Leaf vehicle is used to demonstrate this Intelligent Mobility concept developed with Foster + Partners in a two-minute movie released to coincide with the Geneva event.
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The Japanese car company is already trialling a vehicle-to-grid system in Europe, which could allow cars to operate as individual "energy hubs" able to store, use or return clean energy to the grid.

The video shows a further development of this idea, with cars connecting to an underground electricity grid wirelessly through points in the road surface of parking spaces. This power would be generated from a combination of solar, wind and wave sources.
The cars would park themselves into the bays to charge overnight, and automatically swap with other vehicles when fully powered.

Come morning, the car would be wi...