The Electric Car That Can't Go Anywhere

Engineering group Sandvik and BBDO Nordics have built something rather peculiar – a see-through electric car called eNimon. It contains not a single mined material. They've parked it at Stockholm's National Museum of Science and Technology.

They call it "the world's first useless EV." And they're right.

Here's the thing nobody talks about: you cannot build an electric car without digging things out of the ground. Lithium. Copper. Nickel. Take those away and you're left with a transparent shell that goes nowhere.

The name is a small joke. "eNimon" is "no mine" spelled backwards.

Consider this fact: more than 90 percent of a typical EV comes from mined materials. Building one electric vehicle requires six times more minerals than building a regular car.

Sandvik has done something clever here. They've made the invisible visible. They've shown people what "clean energy" actually requires.

Isaac Bonnier, Art Director at BBDO Nordics, put it simply: "We wanted to create an electric car that lacks everything that makes an electric car possible. Building a full-scale 'nothing' was a real challenge—but that's exactly the point."

Sometimes the best way to show what something is – is to show what it isn't.