Citroen and Ora-Ito Present the Evo-Mobil

The result of a collaboration between French designer Ora-Ito and automaker Citroen, the Evo-Mobil is a personal mobility system that wasn’t designed as yet another concept car but a ge­net­ic trans­for­ma­tion. The Evo-Mobil is the cross­ing of two ty­polo­gies, a ma­chine of the past and a cur­rent car.

Drawing inspiration from the first Cit­roen car, the Evo-Mobil from Ora-Ito and Citroen aims to spread an uni­ver­sal mes­sage on the evo­lu­tion of the mo­bil­i­ty and to give new di­rec­tions nev­er in­vesti­gat­ed to the car in­dus­try.

“Bap­tized “Evo-Mo­bil” he cre­ates a mono­typ­ic kind, which pos­sess­es on­ly sin­gle spe­cie. The term “ge­net­ic trans­for­ma­tion” is used to in­di­cate an ir­re­v­ersi­ble mod­i­fi­ca­tion of the ge­net­ic and hered­i­tary in­for­ma­tion. If the trans­for­ma­tion ar­rives up to cells then, it is passed on to the de­s­cen­dants of the mu­tant in­di­vi­d­u­al. This change can get a se­lec­tive ad­van­tage. This is the base of the pro­cess of the evo­lu­tion,” a statement from Ora Ito reads.

“A cont­i­nu­i­ty of the imag­i­na­tion al­low­ing to mul­ti­p­ly new ac­tions and us­es of “Evo­mo­bil” as car op­tions. He has named this “plugs” which are in­de­pen­dent and can be con­nect­ed on the front and the back of the ve­hi­cle. In case, sev­er­al ge­net­ic trans­for­ma­tions com­bine, we can say they share a com­mon an­ces­tral ge­net­ic pool. Ev­ery pod is orig­i­nal and unique as a sculp­ture that al­lies the dream to the for­mal, the past to the tech­nol­o­gy.”

Bearing the Citroen logo and DNA, the Evo-Mobil is described as an unu­su­al cre­a­tion re­u­nit­ing more than 400 years of his­to­ry, a re­flec­tion on the evo­lu­tion of the mo­bil­i­ty and the le­g­endary know-how of Cit­roen.