Let’s talk about a car with Intelligent Mobility. For at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show, Nissan and Foster + Partners concluded a 12-month collaboration by sharing their vision of where autonomous electric cars could take society. Called “Intelligent Mobility”, it builds on themes of connectivity, urban planning, the modern workplace, and community.
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Intelligent Mobility is the grand vision encompassing Nissan’s Intelligent Driving System, or IDS. Introduced last year, IDS is their take on semi-autonomous cars. We have been very big on it over at the Hybrid and Electric Car News.
The system is also an ingenious way to onboard people to semi-autonomous driving.
Under human control, an IDS vehicle uses an algorithm. One to learn the best of how a person drives. The car also mimics that behavior in autonomous mode.
I am led to think that EV batteries and charging stations are significantly more powerful than today’s models. The idea of cars self-driving themselves to and from a charging station while owners sleep is really cool. My question is how long it takes to charge versus the number of cars in the scheme. Think of a city street with 24 cars and 2 chargers on each side. If the charging system takes more than 20 minutes to fill a battery from 25% full, then the scheme will run out of time.
If you let your mind go you can see the big challenges to government. If you install 2 wireless induction chargers on each side of a block, how does a moderate sized municipality budget for the cost of construction and maintenance?
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By: Sebastian W. James
March 2, 2016
