Volvo could develop a robot that plugs in your car
The video above is an 8-minute interview with Ichiro Sugioka of Volvo talking about Volvo's Recharge concept. Ichiro also talks about the many interesting advantages of battery-powered cars like the power company paying you $2,000 or $3,000 a year to use your car battery while it's parked and using recycled hybrid batteries to store energy from wind turbines. These kinds of things, Ichiro admits, won't be done by a car company. Car companies have developed home charging units for cars and Ichiro hints at a very interesting technology that might be coming from Volvo, robot pluggers. I will let Ichiro explain or you can watch 6:40 into the video interview above:We would also like to have an automated plug-in system. Which is why we put the plug in the nose of the car. So that you could easily position yourself relative a robotic system, lets say. So that you don't have to plug it in yourself.
Please, please, please, make this electric-car-plugging-robot Ichiro! Also, if you can, make the robot wash the windows and mow the lawn.
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Civic_silver 9:02PM (1/01/2008)
Bring this car on the market as soon as posible....
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Domenick 6:08AM (1/02/2008)
I like that Sugioka san realizes some of the possibilities with traction control and braking that the PML Flightlink wheels offer. The robot thing? Meh.
Can't wait to hear more about this concept.
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dmbfan33 9:54AM (1/02/2008)
Robots that mow the lawn have been on the market for years.
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