The Electric Egg, designed by Paul Arzens
13/11/2015.
[Paris] France
metalocus, ANDREA PORTILLO
metalocus, ANDREA PORTILLO
In the search for a non-polluted city, electric cars are recently the great 'new thing', but in reality they are nothing new, in 1942 this prototype featured a private transport designed for urban use.
L’ Oeuf Electrique by Paul Arzens.
L’ Oeuf Electrique by Paul Arzens.
L’ Oeuf Electrique by Paul Arzens.
L’ Oeuf Electrique by Paul Arzens.
L’ Oeuf Electrique by Paul Arzens.
Paul Arzens, born in 1903 in Paris, studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and soon gained the fame of a talented artist, which allowed him to earn enough money to be able to devote himself to research in the fields of engineering and design. The locomotives and cars were the main target of his interest, and in 1942 he introduced a prototype of an electric car that was immediately renamed L'Oeuf, "the egg", for its peculiar shape.
Made of aluminum and a plexiglass bubble, the body along with the engine weighed only ninety kilos which, adding the five electric batteries that it needed to run, were increased to three hundred fifty (!). The batteries gave the car an autonomy of 100 kilometers (63 miles), allowing a speed of 70 km/h (44 mph), or 60 km/h (37 mph) if there were two people on board.
This model was never commercialized, but the way things are standing lately with pollution levels, it might occur to someone to dust it off and maybe we start to see it on the streets, as in this video that we show you here:
