Monday, May 05, 2014

Sustainable Supercar With the i8 Project

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT called the practice of architecture "sublimated mathematics," and I invite you to think of car design the same way. Beneath the wind-raked, time-traveling skin of the BMW BMW.XE -0.31% i8 luxury hybrid lurk a lot of large and unaesthetic numbers. The biggest is the daily parts per million of carbon in the Earth's atmosphere, now over 400 and going nowhere but up. European car makers are under social, political and regulatory pressure to reduce greenhouse emissions. Read More: