London-based Heatherwick Studio has unveiled its concept for the Airo electric car for IM Motors that will "vacuum up pollutants from other cars".
Revealed today at the Shanghai Motor Show, the vehicle for newly formed Chinese car brand IM Motors was designed by Heatherwick Studio as its first car.
Named Airo, the electric car will be fitted with a HEPA ? high-efficiency particulate air ? filtering system that will actively clean pollution. It will have both autonomous and driver-controlled modes.
Heatherwick Studio has designed the Airo car for IM Motors
"Airo isn't simply another electric car that doesn't pollute the air," said Thomas Heatherwick, founder of Heatherwick Studio.
"Instead, using the latest HEPA-filter technology, it goes further by also vacuuming up pollutants from other cars as it drives along." It is the first car designed by Heatherwick Studio
The car has been designed with a flexible interior with rotating seats so that it can be reconfigured into a "multi-functional room".
With the seats facing each other a four-leaf table can be unfolded to create a dining space or a screen extended to watch films or play games.
The car will have a flexible interior
The car's interior can also be turned into a bedroom as the contoured seats fully recline to create a double bed.

In this mode, the glass roof can be made opaque using the "latest technology" to create a private space.
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