General Motors continues to investigate the electrical mobility solutions. If about a year ago showed us the concept Urban Staff Movility and Accessibility, born of her collaboration withSegway, is now in the Hall of Shanghai three flavors than the same concept, but closer to production, the EN-V Concept.
It is exactly the same but as I said, in three different flavors: Jiao (Pride), Miao (Magic) and Xiao(Laugh).Each to his personality, but with some common features among the three. These names simply define your design.
To get an idea and recall functions, these EN-V Concept work the same way as the Segway, which are two-seaters only have Internet access, GPS car to car with integrated connection, possibility of manual driving or autonomous proximity sensors and inner vision for autonomous driving. A whole gadget on wheels.
Having its forms, seems more than clear that it is a vehicle designed exclusively to large cities, where crowds of people and traffic makes life a little harder. The EN-V Concept is to mitigate these agglomerations of cars and clean the air in these cities.
Qualify what to clean, since it carries air purifiers. It’s just completely electric, so it emits emissions that are equal to zero. Less emissions, more clean air and no need of any auto insurance. Works with lithium-ion batteries and moved by two electric motors, one at each wheel. The stability puts it, help me redundancy, dynamic stabilizer.
It has a cruising range of 40km, more than enough for moving around large cities daily. What does not show is the loading time but should not be too long, since the engines do not need to move a weight too high, 500kg.
One problem is proposed by the plug if the power grid can handle the new demand for electricity.To avoid this, the EN-V Concept communicates with the network to know which are the hours to saturate less power demand, warning of when is best to connect to the network.
That said, I think they are clear about the pros and cons of such vehicles moving around large cities. If it is clear that when we seem to arrive at a science fiction movie, with cars like these circulate on all sides, but if you do not move towards the future, we will stay stuck in the past.
Its small size, 1.5 meterslong, its zero emissions, the ability to anticipate accidents and the potential of the Internet connection and connect car to car are features that make the EN-VConcept prototype in very near future should be circulating.
We will lose the charm of the car as we know it, but as I said before, we must look forward. We will always be the concentrations of classics and classic cars take our Sunday with friends.
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