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Zep’lin flying boat ponders the future of electric vehicles

Zep’lin flying boat ponders the future of electric vehicles

Zep'lin Flying Boat

A boat that flies.

Now there’s a vehicle Phileas Fogg could really have used. Zep’lin is a blue-sky concept developed by industrial designer Damien Grossemy during a five month internship at Renault which imagines the use of solar panel sails and electric propulsion to liberate the yacht-like vehicle from terra firma.

Setting out to “explore new design language of electric vehicles,” Grossemy has come up with a land anywhere vertical architecture that incorporates a propeller drive, flexible wing and rudder system that would enable the craft to tilt sideways to make the most of the Sun’s rays.

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