The making of shows the different steps in the development of the concept car Audi AI:ME. Starting with the construction of the bodywork to interviews with designers and the big reveal at Auto Shanghai in April 2019.
The body line of the Audi AI:ME demonstrates how emotion and spatial economy can form a perfect synthesis in an electrically driven compact car.
There is a reason that the name AI:ME emphasizes the relation to the Audi AIcon, the study of automated long-distance operation introduced in 2017.
The affinity of the body line and the concept of these two cars will become evident in Shanghai, as the AIcon will flank the world premiere on the stage of the Audi booth at Auto Shanghai 2019.
Compact architecture, electric drive: The concept
With an exterior length of 4.30 meters (14.1 ft) and a width of 1,90 meters (6.2 ft), the Audi AI:ME takes up as much traffic space as a present-day compact car.
However, the wheelbase of 2.77 meters (3 ft) and the height of 1.52 meters (5 ft) indicate interior dimensions that are more likely to be found in the next higher class at least.
This is made possible by the architecture of the electric drive. It allows for short overhangs and a large-volume interior without a propeller shaft tunnel.
The drive unit is positioned on the rear axle and mobilizes 125 kW (170 metric hp).
For the occupants, the compact drive package offers a maximum amount of objectively available space, spatial comfort, and a great deal of variability.
The Audi AI:ME is designed as a 2 plus-x-seater. Its layout relies on a variety of configurations for seat positions and stowage space.
While only the individual seats at the front will be used during most journeys, the car offers space for up to four people in the front and on the rear bench if necessary.
The body line of the Audi AI:ME demonstrates how emotion and spatial economy can form a perfect synthesis in an electrically driven compact car.
There is a reason that the name AI:ME emphasizes the relation to the Audi AIcon, the study of automated long-distance operation introduced in 2017.
The affinity of the body line and the concept of these two cars will become evident in Shanghai, as the AIcon will flank the world premiere on the stage of the Audi booth at Auto Shanghai 2019.
Compact architecture, electric drive: The concept
With an exterior length of 4.30 meters (14.1 ft) and a width of 1,90 meters (6.2 ft), the Audi AI:ME takes up as much traffic space as a present-day compact car. However, the wheelbase of 2.77 meters (3 ft) and the height of 1.52 meters (5 ft) indicate interior dimensions that are more likely to be found in the next higher class at least. This is made possible by the architecture of the electric drive.
It allows for short overhangs and a large-volume interior without a propeller shaft tunnel. The drive unit is positioned on the rear axle and mobilizes 125 kW (170 metric hp).
For the occupants, the compact drive package offers a maximum amount of objectively available space, spatial comfort, and a great deal of variability.
The Audi AI:ME is designed as a 2 plus-x-seater. Its layout relies on a variety of configurations for seat positions and stowage space.
While only the individual seats at the front will be used during most journeys, the car offers space for up to four people in the front and on the rear bench if necessary.
Audi AI:On our way to automated mobility
Audi AI:ME and Audi AIcon: two concept cars whose very names refer to the new, two-letter abbreviation under which Audi is bundling an entire cluster of innovative mobility technologies.
Audi AI is the cipher for a variety of electronic systems that relieve strain on drivers and simultaneously offer them new possibilities to use the time spent in the car. To this end, Audi AI also uses strategies and technologies from the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Audi AI also combines vehicle intelligence, which makes automated driving possible in the first place, and interaction intelligence, which turns the vehicle into the occupants’ partner.
The name of the Audi AI:ME thus already makes the connection between AI and the users themselves.Audi AI systems are capable of learning and thinking, while also being proactive and personal.
Thanks to Audi AI, models bearing the four rings will be both intelligent and empathetic in the future.
They will be able to continually interact with their surroundings and passengers, and thus adapt themselves in a better way than ever before to the requirements of those on board.
Automated driving at level 4: Relax while gliding through the city
What is long established in rail transportation and even aviation is at the threshold of a breakthrough in automotive transportation—automated driving.
The Audi AI:ME is designed for use in the city and for driving at what is known as level 4. This is the second-highest level on a standardized international scale for increasing automation.
Although systems with level 4 do not require any assistance on the part of the driver, their function is limited to a specific area—such as highways or a specially equipped area in inner cities. In these places, the driver can completely transfer the task of driving to the system.
The driver needs to resume the task only when the car leaves the area defined for fully automated driving.
By contrast to the Audi AIcon, a vehicle with level-5 function that is always fully autonomous, the Audi AI:ME is therefore equipped with the traditional steering wheel and pedalry control elements in addition.
This means that the car, as well as the remaining road users, will drive automatically in a defined traffic area equipped with the corresponding infrastructure in the future.
Self-regulating and self-controlling flows of traffic allow the vehicle to glide along calmly, avoiding heavy longitudinal or lateral acceleration.
This is an important requirement for the occupants of the car to be able to detach themselves mentally from the traffic around them.
Luxurious refuge and high-tech control center: the interior
Audi AI fundamentally changes how automobiles are used and significantly enhances the time spent on board. The car is increasingly becoming a “third living space” alongside our homes and workplaces.
It is thus only consistent that the Audi designers did not subordinate the interior of the Audi AI:ME to the shape of the body. On the contrary.
They prioritized the interior and made it the core of the whole vehicle. The focus here is less on the traditional connection between driver and vehicle—steering wheel, instruments, pedals—and more on the time spent in the automated vehicle.
This is why these control elements are retracted with an elegant and sophisticated choreography and are then almost fully concealed by a stowage compartment with a surface made of open-pore walnut wood.
Fiat presents its Fiat Concept Centoventi concept car, a new milestone in Fiat history, in Geneva for its 120th anniversary.
A pioneer of democratic mobility throughout its history, Fiat today offers an affordable mobility solution for everyone.
It's all part of the DNA of the democratizing "Democratize" brand: "ABC of Cars. Economic But Cold."
With the Fiat Concept Centoventi, the customer can configure the interior, select accessories, and tailor the spaces to create a truly unique car.
Privatization goes a step further. The Fiat Concept Centoventi's modular battery pack allows drivers to purchase or rent additional battery units to increase the range from 100 to 500 km.
The Fiat Concept Centoventi is an "empty canvas". The product, which is produced in just one single piece, can be painted by the customer using the 4U, 4 bays, 4 rims and 4 outer cladding options.
Mopar is an FCA brand dedicated to aftermarket products and services and partnered with Fiat to develop the Fiat Concept Centoventi. Mopar will develop, manufacture and manage accessory logistics for the Fiat Concept Centoventi.
The Fiat Concept Centoventi has chosen the world-famous styling elements of the brand, which became unique to Italian design and creativity.
The 2019 Geneva International Motor Show introduced the concept of Fiat Concept Centoventi, a concept car that perfectly expresses the idea of electric mass mobility of the Italian brand in the near future. It is an expression of the vision of a bold, democratic future based on 120 years of history and experience in this field - hence the name of the prototype in Italian, which means "Twenty-Twenty"; push away from the past and beyond. As in the Fifties, for example, when the Fiat 500 leads to an industrial and cultural revolution, the traditional realities of appearance, design and engineering are overcome, as opposed to anything else in the history of the automotive industry, the first true example of affordable mobility to the mass market.
Honda e Prototype is more proof of Honda's ambition for electrification. Introduced for the first time in Geneva, Honda's first electric battery for the European market is anticipated.
Further expansion of full hybrid technology
In early 2019, Honda successfully launched the brand-new CR-V Hybrid with two-engine i-MMD full hybrid technology. Honda expects full hybrid technology to play a key role in meeting the target of 100% electrification by 2025.
Honda to develop energy management business for Europe
Honda used the opportunity for a Geneva press conference to share the first details of the developing energy management solutions for Europe. This announcement is based on the concept of Power Manager two-way charging first shown at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2017.
It has been roughly a year since Audi launched the first series of electric drives. Audi e-tron * is still covered with camouflage wrapping foils at this point.
The four-ring brand is now looking at another car using the electric car at the Geneva Motor Show: The Audi Q4 e-tron concept is a compact 4-door SUV with an external diameter of 4.59 meters.
Compact on the outside, wide inside: dimensions and interior
4.59 meters long, 1.90 meters wide, 1.61 meters high: The Audi Q4 e-tron concept takes its place in the third row of the compact class with its dimensions. For this reason, road space requirements describe the electric SUV as an agile, versatile, suitable for urban driving. On the other hand, the 2.77-meter wheelbase puts it in at least one class. The Q4 e-tron concept offers unexpected refreshment and comfort, especially in terms of front and rear footwells, since there is no transmission tunnel that limits the area.
Efficient performance: driving system and suspension
The modular electrification platform (MONE) offers a wide range of driving and power levels. The performance version of the electric drive is mounted on the Audi Q4 e-tron concept. Each front and rear axle is powered by an electric motor - Q4 is a quattro. There is no mechanical connection between the axles. Instead, the electronic control ensures that the torque distribution is optimally coordinated and does so in fractions of a second. This allows the electric SUV to achieve optimum traction in all weather conditions and on any surface.
Sporty, precise handling
The main factor for the sporty character and exceptional transverse dynamics is the low and central position in which the drive components are mounted. The high-voltage battery system matches the dimensions of the Audi Q4 e-tron and is located in a flat, wide block under the passenger compartment between the axles. The battery system weighs 510 kilograms. For this reason, the center of gravity of the Audi Q4 e-tron concept is similar to a sedan with a conventional drive system. The axle load distribution is perfectly balanced at almost 50:50. The front wheels of the Q4 e-tron are guided on a MacPherson axle with an adaptive damper. At the rear there is a multi-link axle with separate springs and adaptive dampers.
Everyone knows that they are smart to practice. This cleverly cool Smart forease showcases the visitors at the Paris Motor Show.
When reduced to basic conditions, it is uncompromisingly open, does not care about the congress and is, of course, supported by an electric drivetrain. It takes the original slogan of the smart, maximizes it, defends the authentic urban mobility that continues to be the concept underlying the brand with a twinkle in the eye.
Both smart brand and Smart forease means sensuality, lifestyle and attitude. The vehicle owes its unusual beauty to the opening of the interior, the absence of the roof and the shorter glass.
With its bright, dramatic metallic white and colorful ısız green current iyle emphasis, the smart forease promises a carefree, uncompromising, carefree driving experience.
Or Smart forease creates a refreshingly simple form of fun driving in the city, which keeps the electric drive in the city without compromise - because if you are in doubt, the smart always prefers a consistent approach. The result is a sustainable driving experience based on freedom. E says Katrin Adt.
Smart forease is proof of cleverly unusual thinking,. Said Gorden Wagener, Chief Design Officer at Daimler AG. Design is reduced and pure, saf he says. Id Smart forease is an expression of urbanism and individual style. It has the coolness of the metropolis and shows a truly free spirit. Metrop
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