The automobile industry has taken a shift towards developing hybrid and electric vehicles (EVs) in recent years. A complete shift to EVs might not be happening anytime soon but Japan is on the fast track to make automobile manufacturing more eco-friendly.

Japan has developed a concept car fashioned mostly from wood. Unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show 2019, the Nano Cellulose Vehicle (NCV) is a car concept developed by a consortium of companies and universities established by the Japanese Ministry Of Environment in 2016. The idea of a wooden car might seem something straight out of The Flintstones but the NCV concept is much more modern.

According to Carscoops, the car is made using Cellulose Nano Fibre (CNF) - a fibre material made from wood, agricultural waste, and other organic materials. CNF is one-fifth the weight of steel but is five times stronger than the most widely used engineering material. The use of CNF in most of the bodywork and part of the tub makes the car half as light as traditional cars.

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The goal behind the cars development to be environment-friendly is apparent, as the production process will have the least carbon emissions in the car manufacturing industry. E1izabeth Blackstock of Jalopnik puts the manufacturing process in better words by stating that manufacturing is basically just recycling on a massive scale.

he wooden car really looks the supercar part. The exterior design with butterfly doors and sharp-cut angles look like something youd see on a Lamborghini or Pagani. But he interior has a more traditional Japanese aesthetic, with white kimono-esque seats, a steering wheel covered with the hilt of a katana, an actual wooden dashboard, and a golden flower pattern running throughout.

Although the car might look like its ready to zip through the curves of Autobah, it currently only maxes out at a top speed of 12mph (20kmph) since its powered by hydrogen fuel cells. We can only hope that the NCVs power train in the future would allow for speeds befitting of its supercar semblance.

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Image Credit: Kankyosho (Ministry of the Environment, Japan)

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