- Renault Filante Concept Car aims at electrical efficiency registers
- Single-seats commit all checks for steering yoke
- Renault’s director of advanced design says it could be seen on future cars
The new Renault Filante Record 2025 concept car cuts an impressive figure. Weighing only 1,000 kg but measures 5.12 m long, it is more akin to a fighter jet or a soil speed record vehicle than it is a traditional concept car.
But rather than previewing an upcoming passenger vehicle, the recently revealed filante has been developed to “push the boundaries of aerodynamics and energy efficiency”, according to Renault, providing the perfect empty canvas for engineers and designers to improve aerodynamics and therefore increase the area and increase the area and increase the range performance for future EVs.
One of the innovations that the French company explores is the use of control-for-wire and brake-for-wire technology that removes the mechanical connection between the driver and the vehicle completely controls.
Tesla fans will know that Cybertruck arrived with steer-by-wire technology, which has proven a learning curve for some drivers. But Renault has taken things forward with this concept by committing everything to the PlayStation controller who masked as a steering wheel.
“It’s something that free up a lot of space in the interior,” said the Sandeep Bhambra, Renault’s director of Advanced Design Top Gear. According to Bhambra, it is also something that the company is looking at for future cars.
Essentially, the filante can be completely controlled by the hands, making the driving experience more related with one Gran Turismo Session than a traditional complex high performance machine.
Renault says that by removing the mechanical connections between key checks, it releases designers and engineers to create new possibilities in its platform and cockpitarchy.
Where EVs are concerned, this can lead to smarter packaging of voluminous battery packs and electric engines.
Bring on the fighter plane to the road
Although Renault Filante Record 2025 is a Rolling Science Lab, rather than a real look at the future of passenger cars, rifle it on a number of interesting ideas circulating the automotive industry at the moment.
First, with increasing levels of automation, do drivers really need the traditional voluminous foot control of yesterday? Tesla certainly doesn’t think it, as it got rid of absolutely everything in its cybercab concept.
Removing all controls Release space for entertainment in vehicles in driverless cars, but to commit brakes and throttle to a, hand -operated unit in a more traditional car is also lit the load, which means that future electric vehicles can be more efficient and offer a larger area From smaller and lighter battery packs.
Granted, not everyone will initially agree with Renault’s idea of hand control – some may even say that they are potentially dangerous – but progress in driver aid systems and autonomous driving technology will soon take great care of the heavy lifting when it comes to safety.
In addition, cockpit innovations like this can also free car companies to work on more interesting, smartly packed design.
When we go towards the next chapter in transport, should cars really look like the boxy, four -wheeled things we have known for over a century?
