Rethinking Vehicle Design: A New ‘Pull and Push’ Concept for Sustainable Transport

  •   Wed, Aug 06 2025
  •   By John D'Souza

August 6, 2025

SITUATION

Our mother earth is more than 4.5 billion years old and the automotive industry is less than a couple of centuries / 200 years old.

Late Engineer Sri M G Vishweshwaraih used to commute by bicycle (only a century ago). Now, when the world population is at its peak, every individual wants to have a motor vehicle. No idea whether it is due to the power of technology and progress or the pride and ego of buyers? It is not as easy as owning a mobile in hand by all individuals.

Many trees were felled, forests destroyed, hectares of land encroached upon, and huge investments made to have good roads all over. But the roads have been flooded with a number of private and tiny vehicles. Neither do they allow traffic to move nor provide basic transport facilities to the public. Commuters are being moved like chickens and pickles during peak hours. It is unfortunate that students, employees, labourers, and the general public suffer without basic transport facilities to commute. Frustrated commuters desperately try to own vehicles to meet their daily transport needs and, due to this, the overall traffic increases. At least 25 cars or 60 two-wheelers will be added on roads in the place where a single bus can do the needful.

Mobile technology, digital economy, automation, and artificial intelligence have reduced a big number of man-hours by leaving many working people unemployed and underemployed.

Though mobile technology is enjoying a high-on-sky position, the automotive industry is miserably suffering by carrying and moving the massive load on wheels.

The carry and move concept is the most expensive concept in vehicles. Even at the major energy transition phase of the automotive industry, there is no plan to change/avoid it. Hence, it is not possible to save energy and reduce costs. 

The severe discrepancies of the carry and move concept are:

  1. Each and every vehicle starts from a standstill position and moves till the destination by carrying the heavy load of engine and commuters and/or goods together.

  2. All vehicles are defaulted to level roads only, whereas the roads ahead have several inclines, declines, and curves.

  3. The whole body of the vehicle moves up and down as per the level of roads ahead.

  4. The heavy load on wheels is unnecessarily being taken upwards and downwards on wheels by consuming huge volumes of energy.

TASK

Unique thought and rare finding related to the automotive industry:

As we are aware, animals were used to pull loaded carts (with commuters and goods) prior to the advent of vehicles through the automotive industry. At the time of introducing vehicles on roads, the road transport sector had a couple of concept options.

They were:
a) Merely to replace the animal with the engine
b) To keep both the vehicle engine and the loaded cart on a platform on wheels

By taking advantage of the availability of engines and fuel, the automotive industry opted for the b) option — the carry and move concept — the most expensive one, and it is being followed even today. Though a major energy change phase is in action, there is no thought of a concept change to reduce the cost of manufacturing vehicles and energy consumption, which could increase the efficiency and capacity of vehicles to a great extent.

Pull, get pushed and move concept:

My idea is about a new concept for the automotive industry. It is a pull, get pushed and move concept (instead of carrying and moving the load on wheels throughout the journey or trip).
The intention is to reduce the cost of manufacturing vehicles and save a huge volume of fuel/energy. It is also an opportunity to generate free and clean energy to a certain extent by utilising the massive load (burden) on wheels as a boon instead of carrying and moving it as a bane.

Objectives:

  1. To move the automotive industry from a lengthy evolutionary mode to a revolutionary mode

  2. To increase efficiency and multiply the capacity of vehicles

  3. To shift it from a heavy cost centre to a revenue-generating industry

  4. Social, economic, and environmental solutions and benefits related to the automotive industry

  5. To take advantage of the heavily invested road infrastructure by maximising its utilisation

  6. To reduce a huge volume of energy consumption and generate free and clean energy

Since the automotive industry is in a major energy phase change, it is very essential to raise serious questions about the concept (carry and move) in use, which is erroneous, primitive, and the most expensive.

Merits of the new pull, get pushed and move concept:

  1. Pulling and get pushed concept can save more than 80% of energy consumption

  2. Drastic reduction in the import cost of crude oil and/or energy generation and consumption cost

  3. Various public welfare and national development programs can be undertaken by using saved funds

  4. Vehicles never face tilting risk as two parts support each other as unique couples

  5. Severe environmental problems like air and sound pollution can be eliminated or avoided

  6. Hunger and poverty can be avoided or reduced by availing sufficient food supply through the costs saved

  7. Employment opportunities can be generated by investing saved funds in developmental activities

  8. Lighter vehicles with reduced hardware and minimum spare parts need

  9. Emphasis on heavy vehicles to reduce massive production of two-wheelers and tiny vehicles

  10. Heavy vehicles can be manufactured at much lower costs and energy consumed can be minimal, since the load on wheels can be used as a powerful pushing force

ACTION

The need for a concept change is an excellent eye-opener during this major energy change phase of the automotive industry.

Is it possible to use gravity force as an alternate energy?

This is also an opportunity to look at new and cheaper sources of energy, and the gravity force of our mother earth is one among them. The gravity force of the earth is a wonderful and priceless natural gift. It can be a major source of alternate energy — a powerful natural force, instant, free, clean, available 24/7, with no storage or maintenance required.

The falling apple/waterfalls concept, if used in vehicles, can move a huge load on wheels freely without applying any or very little energy. At the same time, it can be used as a powerful pushing force (instead of carrying and moving the burden/load) and generate a considerable volume of free and clean energy. In the case of waterfalls, water flows from distant places and falls collectively in one particular spot with force and generates powerful electricity.

Like waterfalls, the load on wheels too, if prolonged to fall (by avoiding the instant fall at 90 degrees), the wheels can move freely with the heavy load. Therefore, dynamo-type energy in bicycles can also be generated and stored. If agreed, accepted, approved, and implemented, the gravity force of the mother earth can be the best (natural, safe, and free) source of alternative energy.

Importance of the idea:

It is a very important and serious eye-opener. The automotive industry is a very prominent sector as well as a major cost centre of the economy. The fact is (due to ignorance/arrogance), it has been suffering miserably by carrying and moving the huge load on wheels since its inception. Even during this major energy change phase, the industry has planned to continue with the erroneous and most expensive carry and move concept. It is a sad and unfortunate decision that skips the opportunity to save at least 50% of manufacturing cost and 80% energy consumption.

In the meantime, there is an option to generate a huge volume of free and clean energy by taking advantage of the heavy load on wheels.

RESULT

My idea of a new (pull, get pushed and move) concept to the automotive industry aims to save energy, reduce costs, eliminate air and sound pollution by vehicles, create huge job opportunities, initiate various human welfare projects, and drive overall development of various sectors of the economy.

The idea is not merely of local, regional, state, or national importance, but of global significance.

Based on the advantageous concept, the opportunity is to manufacture a new range of vehicles with different efficiency and capacity at very low costs.

The vehicles manufactured can be cheap, safe, and comfortable. Because of low manufacturing and running costs and saving lots of energy, transport of goods and commuters can be provided at very low charges.

In the meantime, a huge volume of written-off/scrapped vehicles can be used (excluding the engine) while manufacturing new vehicles — especially as load carrier parts.

The new concept in vehicles can be a Win-Win situation

It is an ample opportunity to enjoy incredible solutions with amazing benefits for the automotive industry, automakers, auto business community, transporters, vehicle owners, and commuters.

Important benefits are:

  1. Auto start and move of vehicles (instead of starting from a standstill position)

  2. Pull and get pushed concept (instead of carry and move — the most expensive concept)

  3. Saves a huge volume of energy and generates a considerable volume of free energy

  4. Drastic reduction in air and sound pollution, being environment-friendly

  5. Cheaper vehicles due to less hardware and lighter unit weight

  6. Low running, operating, and maintenance costs of vehicles

  7. Luggage and load-moving facility at railway platforms, ports, bus stands, and airports

  8. Cheap, safe, and better transportation facilities for commuters and goods

  9. Flexibility in using silent and pollution-free vehicles in campuses, museums, public gardens, and entertainment venues

  10. Automotive industry can run at a very cheap rate with minimum energy consumption and low manufacturing, running, and maintenance costs

  11. It can become a revenue-generating sector instead of continuing to suffer heavy costs

The scope and prospects of implementing the concept change:

  1. India has more than 600,000 villages

  2. 70% of the population lives in villages depending on agriculture

  3. The majority of the Indian population is below 35 years of age, representing a strong workforce

  4. Enormous campuses, grounds, and parks need flexible transportation to move commuters and materials within boundaries

  5. Last-mile connectivity can be made easy and convenient to meet transport needs

  6. Primarily avoids huge quantities of hardware, spare parts, heavy engines, and outdated vehicles

  7. Divide and rule is the best option — like in politics and as couples in society

  8. A combination of electric power and gravity force along with the new concept can bring a rapid revolution in the automobile sector

  9. A tiny engine/motor can move a big, heavily loaded cart easily and at no cost

Conclusion:

This is a unique idea, well thought out with great vision to overcome the severe drawbacks of the existing, most expensive carry and move concept — offering amazing solutions. Perhaps the pull, get pushed and move concept is an entirely new approach to bring about a revolutionary change in the automotive industry.

The need is to properly validate, accept, approve, and support actual implementation — to enjoy its incredible advantages globally.

 

 
By John D'Souza
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