ICONA DESIGN To Showcase ICONA Nucleus Concept at Auto Expo 2020

ICONA DESIGN GROUP will make its Indian debut at the Auto Expo 2020 (February 7-12), showing its vision for the mobility of the future represented by the ICONA Nucleus concept vehicle model. ICONA wants to take this opportunity to enter India. a new and rising market offering an attractive and effective design which unites Italian know how and a multicultural approach.

The ICONA Nucleus embodies ICONA’s vision for the future of mobility. With its fully autonomous driving level five, the Nucleus jumps two generations ahead.  Inside the vehicle, the absence of a driver does not only mean the absence of a steering wheel and a dashboard, but the opportunity for a new understanding of mobile living spaces, where the focus is no longer the road but the destination.

On participation at Auto Expo 2020, Teresio Gigi Gaudio, ICONA President and CEO, said: “India is a promising market with high potential for design. We expect India to become a major player in Electric Vehicles with the involvement of traditional and new manufacturers. In this context Nucleus represents the synthesis of futurism and a human-centered mindset. It takes the ICONA Neo Concept one step further by reconsidering the very way that we use a vehicle. Neo introduced us to tomorrow, Nucleus introduces us to after-tomorrow.”

The ICONA Nucleus is a self-moving executive lounge: the body side is characterized by long sculpting which emphasizes the luxury nature of the vehicle.  Like a protective bubble, the Nucleus protects and embraces its passengers, at the same time offering a view of the outside, thanks to an extremely wide glass surface which constitutes the majority of the upper body.

The graphically asymmetrical body is divides by two portions marked by a diagonal line which crosses the roof from front right to back left, dividing the transparent and partly semi-transparent glass. Just one large entry is granted, to the right, on the safe side. It includes the main sliding door and the oyster roof opening to accommodate the passengers in a walk-in access.

With a length of 5.25 meters and a width of 2.12 meters, the Nucleus stands at 1.75 meters high on 27-inch wheels. Its slick aerodynamic design with full underbody diffuser and wheel arch aerodynamic blade extensions bring the CX to just under 0.22, a very good number that definitely helps its rolling resistance and energy consumption. Its Motor in wheel technology helps to optimize the space inside the Nucleus and its hydrogen range extender can bring the autonomy to 1200 kilometers. 

The Nucleus can easily accommodate six people. Seats can be adjusted to different use, rotating to face the desk or the rear passengers in the front, strongly reclining to the rear and even transforming into a couch on center. A small table and all necessary spaces and connections for a laptop are available, as well as a wet bar so that even the shortest trip can be effectively used for business or leisure.

Being a large luxury car, the inspiration of Nucleus has come as much from the Concorde airplane as from a yacht.