It isn’t likely to be your next home DIY project, but a company is looking to turn IKEA’s flat-packed furniture design into cars.

The Swedish vehicle start-up Luvly is finishing up its inaugural model, the O, which is designed to be so light and modular that it can be flat-packed to save thousands of tons of emissions from vehicle shipping.

Designed for urban commuting, the Luvly O will have two 35-pound battery packs that can be switched out to extend its small range of just 62 miles. With a top speed of 55 miles per hour, the car is 37 inches shorter than the already-small Fiat 500.

It has also been designed with a critical safety feature to fortify the drivers of these small cars against crashes.

“For light vehicles to compete with cars, and hopefully out-compete cars, they must be safe. People will not accept that you switch from driving an SUV to driving what is essentially a scooter with a shell,” Håkan Lutz, CEO and co-founder of the car firm, told CNN. 

Using Formula-1 cars’ light yet rigid aluminum chassis, Luvly has created a dual layer of foam inside the vehicle’s skeleton to help absorb kinetic force.

Priced at €10,000 ($10,500), the car isn’t flat-packed and shipped to you but to an authorized dealer for assembly, but Lutz told CNN that it isn’t just the car they’ll be sending to other firms.

They will be licensing their patented flat-packed technology to big automobile manufacturers in the hope that the design will catch on and that they might continue to innovate the concept and drive it towards a more sustainable future.