If you happen to forget to get a gift for your reliable Volkswagen electric vehicle this holiday season, do not be afraid, because the German car company has just released a new video showcasing the robot its whimsical autofocus to help your car, by filtering R2-D2 droid sounds and Terminator vibe.
With its sleek digital eye-catcher, this small business robot drags batteries to vehicles in parking garage stalls where it swipes up to begin the charging process. While this is still only a prototype for future use as Volkswagen ramps up making EV models deeper into the decade, it remains a clever solution to the issue of installing stations. individual cost in parking spaces.
Volkswagen Group’s mobile robotics will continue to modernize and improve over the next few years to expand and consolidate the company’s cost infrastructure to meet growing demand.
Check out the jaunty, battery-juicing ‘in action!
In the second video below, Volkswagen features a similar motor towing its car into a garage stall and using a smartphone app to warn the costly robot that its their vehicle of power, pronto! The robot then quickly connects to a portable energy storage unit, which is essentially a battery on wheels, then pulls it over to the electric vehicle that needs feeding and plugs it in to start on cost.
As the feed electric is moved, the robot can move back to its home base while waiting for the roll-out battery to recover, or simply grab another portable energy storage unit and service it. given to a second vehicle, it is all accomplished without the need to live. human server.
Robotic systems like this are a great alternative to individual parking structures and garages equipped with their own EV charging stations, with a ready fleet of portable battery packs all loaded up and ready to meet the needs of VW thirsty cars empty of their valuable voltage.