Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor
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The 48 Volt Electric Car #CES2018
In this interview, Daniel Benchetrite, North American Powertrain New Mobility Director for Valeo, describes a new electric powertrain based on 48 volts DC that they have designed for a new, sub $10k car. Initially intended for the Chinese market, but with aspirations for the U.S., it is not lacking in features: 60 MPH and 60…
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Putting Fun in the Utility Vehicle #CES2018
Mark Frohnmayer wants to make ‘fun” part of the daily commute with the introduction of the Arcimoto FUV (Fun Utility Vehicle). In the above interview, Frohnmayer, Arcimoto President and Founder, provides an update to his 2016 ViodiTV interview, as he explains how they have gone from start-up to publicly traded company with a manufacturing plant in…
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Amped Up for a New Way to Commute #CES2018
Moving up the mobility food-chain from electric scooters and motorized luggage, Ampere Motors plans to launch its $9,900 electric vehicle around Christmas 2018 (according to its founder via an email message). With its 100-mile range (upgradable to 150-mile), 3.5 hour charging time and low-cost, it could be viewed as a practical commuter vehicle. It’s design (convertible…
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Viodi View – 09/29/18
The recent announcement from Babcock Ranch – the Florida planned community, which aspires to be an environmentally friendly and technologically advanced city of 50,000 people – regarding its pilot of an autonomous school bus hints at how automation will have an impact on almost all facets of life. It is difficult to see how the…
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Better Roadmarkings = Safer Roads
“We are looking at how we can take the technologies we have developed over many years for road signs and pavement markings and those kinds of humanly visible aspects of the roadway and how we can now address those towards the new drivers of the road; the automated vehicles, the autonomous vehicles,” states Andy Dubner,…
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An Opportunity to Bridge the Rural Mobility Divide Through Autonomy
[Note, video updated on 9/14 to include images of Volvo Vera and Schaeffler Mover, as referenced below] Drawing a parallel between the so-called broadband digital divide and mobility, Princeton Professor Dr. Alain Kornhauser suggests that, “Rural America has a substantial number of mobility challenged individuals,” in this 3rd part of an interview filmed at the…