MULTI-LEVEL CAR PARK BATTERY BANK

Electrified vehicle
Grimshaw
Greenshoot
Greenaway Architects
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MULTI-LEVEL CAR PARK BATTERY BANK
A solar-powered pit stop that converts existing petrol cars to electric rather than replacing them, repurposes the parts they shed, reskills the mechanics who service them, and installs a Mobile GP that turns every drive into a check-in on the driver's own health.
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Convert the fleet we have, charge it with the sun, upskill the mechanics and loop health into the journey.

Australia has more than twenty million registered vehicles. Replacing each one with a new electric car is the most expensive, most wasteful path to a clean fleet - billions of dollars, decades of manufacturing, the existing fleet sent to landfill. So we asked the other question. What if the car you already own could be electrified, instead of replaced?
The Multi-Level Car Park Battery Bank takes a piece of city infrastructure most cities have too much of, the multi-storey car park, and turns it into the conversion workshop. You drive in petrol. You drive out electric. The roof runs the workshop on its own solar. The mechanics are the same trade you've always known, retooled for the next century. There's an RACV helpdesk for the people who want to do the job themselves.
Every existing car becomes upgradeable instead of disposable. The petrol engine you leave behind re-enters the materials cycle - parts for a working vintage vehicle, feedstock for the next build. The mechanics keep working: their skills don't expire, they expand. And while you wait, the Mobile GP runs- blood pressure, eyes, hearing, the maintenance you'd otherwise forget. A diagnostic for the car becomes a diagnostic for the driver.
This project launched and was exhibited in 2021 during Melbourne Design Week.

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Transportation
Transport is 26% of Melbourne's emissions. Halve the city's 2.6 million cars through transit, bikes, and density. Convert the remaining 1.3 million to electric in 500 retrained workshops. Extend the tram-city logic to every vehicle. Save $1.4 billion a year in fuel.
Would you like to support this project? Get in touch with Grimshaw, Greenshoot and Greenway architects.