GM has come up with a new Electric Networked-Vehicle (ENV) to fight the growing pressure on public infrastructure. GM unveiled the two-seater urban transport concept vehicle, which it has been developing in conjunction with the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. (SAIC), in China.

This concept car from GM is intended as a personal mobility vehicle and the most amazing thing about this vehicle is that it can communicate with other vehicles on the road to help avoid traffic congestion and crashes. The EN-V intends to offer a solution to city traffic, congestion, parking, poor air quality, and affordability. And, it can travel up to 25 miles on a single charge. Now, the future looks really bright, doesn’t it!

The EN-V will run on lithium ion batteries which can be recharged from a standard household outlet. With the help of its global positioning system, vehicle-to-vehicle communications network, and a sensor and camera system, it can operate autonomously once given a set destination or you can drive it manually. So, when you are tired or drunk, you won’t have to hire a taxi, just instruct this little car, or whatever you want to call it, and it will take you home. It can navigate through the complicated city traffic with the help of combined technologies.

The body and canopy of EN-V are built from carbon fiber, custom-tinted Lexan and acrylic, materials which, because of their strength and lightweight characteristics, are used in race cars, military airplanes and spacecraft.

So much about the technology and usefulness of the car, but, when it comes to the looks of the EN-V, we are not sure as to how many of us would really care to own it. The EN-V concept looks like an adult-sized stroller! Can you beat that! I mean how many of us would want to be seen in a stroller. Our extreme apologies on this comment but we couldn’t stop writing this.

GM has gone ahead to unveil not just one, but three variants of the EN-V concept, namely, Xiao (Laugh), Miao (Magic) and Jiao (Pride).

But, in any case, as we have mentioned, it is a concept car and it will take another 10 to 20 years to hit the showrooms if GM goes ahead and produces it. General Motors aims to reposition itself as a leader in fuel efficient cars and is all set to launch its first environmentally friendly vehicle, Volt hybrid, this year.

With the increase of environmental awareness, global auto manufacturers are focussing on making hybrids vehicles. But EN-V concept from GM is extremely odd looking and we wonder what kind of response it will get, supposing that it reaches the production phase.

For now, let’s just hope that it remains a concept (Our response) but we are sure that most of you out there would want to see this concept turn to reality considering the size of the car.