Mark's Imagination

This is exactly how I picture an electric car when someone says electric car. Not something that looks like my Dad's sedan. Elon Musk is a brilliant man but he needs to take a design tip or two from Renault. The Treznor GT is beautiful.


Here's a little bit about the car.


Renault’s Trezor is a huge, two-seater electric coupe, it features autonomous functionality, and an interior of bravura aesthetic and material ambition. Proportionally extreme, the car’s profile and headlights offer probably the strongest cues about the next part of the company’s design journey (the C-shape is a Renault signature).

This model will not be for sale, but rather is more an art piece of the companies capabilities acting as fascinating insight into next-gen thinking, both in terms of the visuals and the tech. The electric powertrain architecture is real, though. Renault has been one of the prime movers and tech partners in the Formula E race series since its inception in 2014, and the company is also Europe’s best-selling electric vehicle manufacturer. So you know the Trezor’s 260kW (350bhp) motor works, it’s good for 282 torques, and e-power being what it is, it’ll warp to 62mph in less than four seconds. It also uses the ‘rechargeable energy storage system’ as seen in Formula E. Clearly, this is an EV whose constituent parts are more battle-hardened than most. At the rear, meanwhile, the lighting system uses laser-assisted fibre-optics; “the pattern has a kind of ‘mirage’ effect,” advanced studio boss Stefano Bolis tells me, “and we wanted to play on the magical effect light has on us. Think of the aurora borealis, or even the warmth of a fire.” As with other big car companies, Renault now employs a crew of designers specifically to work on illumination, so fast-moving has the technology become.