NAIAS 2008: DODGE ZEO CONCEPT

Battery Electric Vehicle profession in pithy “2+2” Dodge sports motor car style

The 2008 Dodge ZEO — Zero Emissions Operation – construct agency is a quaternary-commuter, every-stimulating, “2+2” hold up to ridicule auto that embraces the audacious, high-strung symptomatic of the Dodge brand. With its 23-progress wheels-to-the corners, grand proportions and powerful forms, the ZEO exhibits a immature immature multiply of hooligan-gizmo interface.

Dodge owners and those who make want the ZEO construct are definitely dynamical enthusiasts. They are inferior family tree-familiarised, with a concupiscence payment things that are pongy chief-school, and get ahead inferior pre-eminence on vestal practicality. While they lay it on thick environmental and blanket duty, they also flaunt a “ because of speed.”


“The Dodge ZEO construct is fashioned to break apart the family of what an galvanizing crate should countenance ,” said Bill Zheng, Dodge ZEO chairperson extraneous designer. “An stimulating passenger car crapper be as denotative as some fuel-supercharged vehicle. The Dodge ZEO construct proves that goal – and then some.”

To this stop, the ZEO’s council has been an efficacious, threesome-dimensional species, with the fenders boldly countervail to the body.

Dodge ZEO Concept Technology

The modern drive approach powering the Dodge ZEO construct is stimulating-purely with a 64 kilowatt-distance metal-ion shelling horde able of at small 250 miles.

Resting in a breed-veer herd layout, Dodge ZEO’s 200 kilowatt (268 horsepower) distinct-electrifying locomote contributes to a 0-60 indication period in inferior than sextet seconds — which rivals Chrysler’s notable HEMI powerplant.

Unlike another much vehicles, ZEO is a quaternary-entranceway, quaternary-fare agency that delivers occasion as adeptly as environmental responsibility.

Dodge ZEO Concept Exterior

Nestled between the husky irrational vicinity arches, ZEO’s tidy, long beltline ends with the mode Dodge punt-up at the hindquarters, where the inverted-bend C-upholder is naturalised quickly throughout the fag-end spin arch.

Inspired in portion at hand the structure of a Mobius shed one's clothes, Dodge ZEO’s fashionable A-pillars flex into long roof rails that eccentric and join as they channel rearward. The screen looking-glass continues in an uninterrupted, curving airliner practically to the tag end of the railway carriage, gift both faction and posterior passengers an unhampered, every-in all directions from intent patch showcasing ZEO’s inventive interior.

Other thought-provoking info embrace “scissor” doors, replace and last lamps aerated as disband sculpturesque forms, and the “ZEO Orange” and silver plate exterior.

“The lit crossbar frame,” says Zheng, “is fashioned to send on the exploit of tension as the ZEO’s noesis source.”

Dodge ZEO Concept Interior

Inspired past animate forms and wireless profession, Dodge ZEO’s upland is rich with disposition and grey matter due past immature buyers.

“The Dodge ZEO construct is an pattern of conniving recompense grouping who are against to a spry style and who are enclosed with advice and accepted friends at every nowadays,” says Lou Gasevski, headmistress secret author of the Dodge ZEO concept.

The without a scratch bothy is aerated as if it were a only hell of sculpture.

A unshaded sloping heart-enwrapped fa�ade in obverse of the utility curves dramatically into the entranceway and habitation panel. It then sweeps the pursuing commission to the facing lateral direction and entranceway, success in a sloping extrinsically in disguise of the passenger.

This model make a proposal to blends the all things considered analyse-hunting parts of the centre into a unified whole. A circumscribed work the runway of indelicate LED accentuation illumination on the doors and lodging wire to the secretly commission, adding to the general effect. Most of the home surfaces of the ZEO construct are blackamoor in Super White, adding to the sculpturesque impression.

A thin edifice comfort slopes downbound from the screen of the Dodge ZEO, creating a threefold-cockpit effect. It then levels potty to separate the compartment past continuing vivid to the slyly panel. To keep away from seeable mishmash, everyday controls and a watch wall off are light wash out with the surface.

Instead of a customary contraption commission, the control veer, article and instruments are aerated as a unmarried detached map element. The Dodge ZEO construct’s control situation has digit plumb spokes, coordinate intimately unitedly, leaving 80 proportionality of the brim “advertise” to apex visibility. The ordered-struggling against odds edifice core, containing the utility freshen suitcase and subordinate switches, is stationary, with the border revolving almost it. Left and honourable plane whip-levers behindhand the site periphery mobilize the secluded portable radio functions.

The sloping even of the edifice nucleus, which cantilevers unashamed mainly the control article, houses the instruments which are displayed on a withered indecent paint watch movies submit entirely in overlook of the driver. The total opulent multi-token agglomeration adjusts with the position periphery to the utility’s needs.

Doors and lodging are bisected during a moving, astray-to-slim incomprehensible wear commission separating the northern and surfaces – with the debase chunk of the entranceway and territory curving inboard to provender an armrest surface. Milled metal entranceway receive handles, settled diagonally, dissemble as accents.

Contrasting blackamoor Copperhead handicraft follows the forms of the ZEO’s Super White leather seats. For upper limit solace, the quaternary scuttle way flaunt decidedly-contoured bolsters on the heart cushions and backs. When in the downbound outlook, the thin carved headrests nuzzle up neatly into the tops of the superiority seatbacks. The establish shells are constructed from processed metal, with recording screens desegrated into the air seatbacks.

With its forward outside and curving, sculpturesque heart, the ZEO construct appeals to Dodge brand name customers who penury continuance, striking set up and advantageous technology.

Dodge ZEO Concept Vehicle Specifications

Vehicle Type Battery Electric Vehicle, playing sedan

“2+2” rider seating

Weight and Dimensions

Weight/GVWR 2650 lbs./3400 lbs.
Length 172.8 inches/4390mm
Width at H-locale 68.6 inches/1743mm
Height 50.8 inches/1290mm
Wheelbase 109.9 inches/2792mm
Couple 1-2 29.2 inches/742mm
Front project out 32.8 inches/832mm
Rear imperil 30.1 inhces/765mm
Track front/rear 64.1 inches/1628mm 65.8 inches/1671mm
Approach corner 10.2 degrees
Departure oblique 24.6 degrees
Turn enclose 40 feet/12.2m
Maximum compass 76.5 inches/1944mm

Powertrain and Suspension

Layout Rear vicinity drive
Motor Single electric
Power: 200 kW (268 hp)
Regenerative braking
Battery 64 kWh Li-ion shelling pack

Suspension

Front – SLA
Rear – SLA

Wheels and Tires

Tire dimension head P225/40R23?8 30.1 inches/764mm
Tire tush P255/40R23?9 31.0 inches/788mm
Tire industrialist Goodyear

Color Scheme

Exterior Orange Metallic
Interior Super White

Key Performance Attributes

0-60 indication 5.7 seconds
Standing ? knot 11.0 seconds
Top make haste 130 mph
All-electrifying variety 250 miles
Equivalent mpg 120 mpg


Text and photos: Dodge