{"id":339403,"date":"2010-02-19T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/19\/eye-concept-tesla-motors-geneva\/"},"modified":"2010-02-19T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T15:59:00","slug":"eye-concept-coming-to-geneva-has-tesla-motors-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/339403","title":{"rendered":"EYE concept coming to Geneva has Tesla Motors connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/conceptcars\/\" rel=\"tag\">Concept Cars<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/geneva-motor-show\/\" rel=\"tag\">Geneva Motor Show<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/tesla\/\" rel=\"tag\">Tesla<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/electric\/\" rel=\"tag\">Electric<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/gallery\/ied-eye-concept\/full\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"top\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/green.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/02\/eye-concept-630.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><small>IED Tesla EYE concept &#8211; Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>\nThough it proudly sports a chrome <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/category\/tesla-motors\/\">Tesla Motors<\/a> logo on its nose, the Geneva-bound EYE concept pictured above was not penned by that California company&#8217;s designers. Not directly anyway. That credit goes to 11 transportation design master course students at the Istituto Europeo di Design of Turin (<a href=\"http:\/\/life.ied.it\/iedmade\/eng.html\">IED<\/a>). That&#8217;s not to say Tesla Motors wasn&#8217;t involved in the effort, though. In a bid to uncover the student&#8217;s future-vision, the school decided to hook up with the company whose name they felt is &#8220;synonymous with innovation,&#8221; and the team went on to develop its green dream under the supervising eye of Franz von Holzhausen, Tesla&#8217;s chief designer.<\/p>\n<p>Though we&#8217;ll likely never see how this full-size model looks rolling down the road, we will get see it posing for the public at the <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/category\/geneva-motor-show\/\">Geneva Motor Show<\/a>. Perhaps our photos taken there will better reveal whether the concept has successfully achieved its makers&#8217; goal of creating a 2 + 2 sportscar &#8220;conceived to become a status-symbol.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"postgallery\">\n<p><strong>Gallery: <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/photos\/ied-eye-concept\/low\/\">IED Tesla EYE concept<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/photos\/ied-eye-concept\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/green.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/02\/ied-eye-concept-render-front_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/photos\/ied-eye-concept\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/green.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/02\/ied-eye-concept-render-rear_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ied.edu\/Portfolio\/News\/Turin\/read-news.html?docId=eng_%7b6CD35C23-E317-DF11-AB6A-001A64CA1238%7d\">Istituto Europeo di Design of Turin<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/19\/eye-concept-tesla-motors-geneva\/\">EYE concept coming to Geneva has Tesla Motors connection<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:59:00 EST.  Please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\/feed-terms\/\">terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\"><\/h6>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/life.ied.it\/iedmade\/eng.html>Read<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/19\/eye-concept-tesla-motors-geneva\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/forward\/19365404\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/19\/eye-concept-tesla-motors-geneva\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Concept Cars, Geneva Motor Show, Tesla, Electric IED Tesla EYE concept &#8211; Click above for high-res image gallery Though it proudly sports a chrome Tesla Motors logo on its nose, the Geneva-bound EYE concept pictured above was not penned by that California company&#8217;s designers. Not directly anyway. 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