The Next Model T?

I love innovation in the automotive industry, even more so when it comes from my part of the world, Australia. The country that gave you the Ute now presents the winner of the Ford Global Challenge. It’s been a hundred years since the Model T helped to change the world, and to mark the occasion, the Ford Motor Company invited six schools from around the world to present concepts for a car that embodies the essence of the Model T, 100 years later: the new car would have to be "simple, lightweight, practical, compelling and low cost." Sharing the win with Germany’s Aachen University is Deakin University of Melbourne, Australia. According to Bernard Rolfe, the project leader for the Deakin team, the "T2" concept offers value for money as well as being a green machine. Designed to run on compressed air, the T2 produces zero emissions and uses air rotary hub motors to give it an approximate range of 125 miles, which can be extended through the use of compressed natural gas. Running on three wheels, the lightweight T2 could be one of the answers we need to resolve today’s fuel crisis. Now if they could only come up with a compressed-air Hemi. Read more on Ford’s contest here.