{"id":72504,"date":"2025-11-27T12:36:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/?p=72504"},"modified":"2025-11-27T12:36:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:36:58","slug":"from-mole-urbana-to-malya-shaping-the-future-of-mobility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/2025\/11\/from-mole-urbana-to-malya-shaping-the-future-of-mobility\/","title":{"rendered":"FROM MOLE URBANA TO MALYA, SHAPING THE FUTURE OF MOBILITY"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/div><\/div>

With production now underway at the Borgaretto plant near Turin, the Mole Urbana project \u2014 patiently brought to life by Umberto Palermo over the past years \u2014 completes its first chapter. The electric quadricycles, presented in their definitive form, stand out for their originality and charm. They persuade with a thoughtful balance of craftsmanship and industrial vision, expressed through a modular construction that is simple, rational, and attentive to material choice and resource efficiency.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Two wheelbase options and multiple configurations, including versions designed for commercial use, turn these retro-inspired vehicles into a lively and appealing proposal. Their frame and bodywork follow a clear, almost schematic approach, yet the final \u201cattire\u201d shows remarkable care: wood, metal and textiles shape the interior atmosphere, accompanied by distinctive storage bags integrated into the front section. In the Sport GT version, the cabin cell adopts a more rounded silhouette and introduces subtle racing cues \u2014 more atmospheric than performance-driven, but striking nonetheless.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

But Palermo\u2019s vision extends well beyond this initial range, which enters the market in these very months. Built through a virtuous network of companies and institutions spanning Piedmont and the Marche region, Mole Urbana is already looking toward the next evolutions of Europe\u2019s sustainable-mobility landscape. At the center is the EU initiative named as E-Car prroject (and informally knowed as \u201cM0\u201d), to be announced in December and already an influence behind the recent Dacia Hipster concept. The program is expected to generate a new class of urban vehicles positioned between quadricycles and city cars: essential, built like real automobiles yet freed from certain technological constraints \u2014 particularly in active-safety equipment \u2014 that today weigh heavily even on the costs of the smallest cars.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

This is the horizon behind Malya, also unveiled on 7 December as a \u201cthree-dimensional draft\u201d more than a fully fledged prototype, but clear enough to outline the evolution of the Mole Urbana construction philosophy toward a new, accessible dimension of personal mobility. Its forms and stylistic cues borrow from the world of classic off-roaders, as do the large wheels and raised stance, conceived to express solidity and robustness within a compact footprint of just 3.75 metres in length and 1.45 in height.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1138,"featured_media":72497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3301,3302],"class_list":["post-72504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-mole","tag-mole-urbana"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 11:48:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72507,"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72504\/revisions\/72507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autodesignmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}