Audi is including a “lounge on wheels” to its current portfolio of electrical idea autos which might be designed to painting the German automaker’s imaginative and prescient for the way forward for transportation in vehicles.

The brand new “Urbansphere” idea was designed for vacationers in extremely dense visitors areas similar to China as a 3rd dwelling house and cellular workplace, in response to the corporate.

Like Audi’s earlier “sphere” ideas, which the corporate began unveiling final 12 months, the automobile is designed to be able to driving itself in most conditions.

The latest automobile is taller than the opposite ideas, blurring the road of a giant crossover and minivan, or “multipurpose automobile,” which create more room and are fashionable in China.

“Designers and engineers initially created the Audi Urbansphere to be used in traffic-dense Chinese language megacities, though the idea can be appropriate for another metropolitan heart on the earth,” Audi stated in a launch. “In these city areas, the place private house is in significantly quick provide, the idea automotive provides the most important inside house of any Audi to this point.”

The Urbansphere’s inside continues traits from Audi’s different ideas. It includes a trendy design with wooden and technologically superior options similar to a stowaway steering wheel and enormous video show throughout the entrance instrument panel of the automobile’s inside.

The time period “sphere” is supposed to represent the inside house of the autos for drivers and passengers, in response to Audi.

Automakers routinely use idea autos to gauge buyer curiosity or present the longer term route of a automobile or model. The autos will not be meant to be bought to customers.