Unexpected Greenery: TVR Artemis concept from Niels van Roij

TVR, a British sportscar manufacturer with a troubled past and uncertain future, is known for producing brutish performance cars with impossibly curvy bodies molded from fiberglass and powerful inline-six or V8 engines. As such, the idea of an eco-friendly TVR never really crossed our minds until we saw Niels van Roij's TVR Artemis concept.

The Dutch designer created the Artemis as his final-year project at the Design Academy Eindhoven in The Netherlands. Powered by one in-wheel electric motor per contact patch and a theoretical hydrogen fuel cell, there seems little chance that a car such as this would ever see the light of day, but it certainly is an interesting take on the modern TVR design ethos. See for yourself in the gallery below that shows a 1:5 scale model of the Artemis concept.



[Source: Niels van Roij via Carscoop]