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Australian ex-patriate Richard Canny offers a compelling demonstration of the near future of the family car, it won’t be long until we all drive the silent electric highway.

Canny is CEO of TH!NK, the Norweigan company that produced its first prototype TH!NKCity electric car in 1991. TH!NK is now hailed by some as the car company of the 21st Century, where environmentally friendly vehicles are produced in a small-scale 'low carbon' production centre.

TH!NK is a car company that aims to change the way people think about cars, by designing emission free and highly efficient modern-city vehicles to meet consumer needs.

Canny draws from over 25 years within the car industry to demonstrate the dramatic shifts at play in TH!NK - the company utilises innovative material and battery technology to allow a travel range of up to 180km on a single charge.

TH!NK has a production system that inverts the pattern of the large mass-production auto manufacturers; it can operate economically with low production runs suited to a local market; its design allows production plants to be 'cloned' wherever there is demand for low-emission vehicles.

TH!NK epitomises the significant transformation of technology and business that is emerging as low-carbon innovators harness creativity to redesign not just the car but the way that vehicles will be built and used. This is a company from a country of less than 5 million people that is set to change the meaning of 'sustainable mobility'.

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