UrbandGO: A sustainable urban mobility system

摘要

Specific elements of the Urb&GO ecosystem include a battery electric vehicle (BEV) that is convertible between a driveable mode and a stowable mode where the height of the roof area of the vehicle is lowered when the vehicle is stowed. The stowable mode reduces the volume of the BEV allowing for the storage of more vehicles per cubic feet of storage or parking space. The infrastructure for the BEV includes various configurations for charging and storage facilities. The charging facilities may include wind turbines; solar polar of other renewable power. The proposed Urb&GO concept reduces traffic and congestion and eliminates exhaust fumes reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The “Park & Ride” idea can be used to allow people to use Urb&GO Vehicles to commute to the city. Customer and public ownership and leasing study options are possible with this concept.

主权项

1. A transportation ecosystem comprising:
a plurality of stowable battery-electric vehicles each having a roof that extends in covering relation to an interior cabin; and one or more networks of energy charging station and storage containers, wherein said charging station and storage containers are geographically distributed across communities and are directly powered from a renewable energy source; wherein each of said electric vehicles is convertible between a horizontal drivable mode and a vertical stowable mode, wherein said roof of each of said vehicles is positioned at a first covering distance in relation to said interior cabin when in said drivable mode and at a second covering distance in relation to said interior cabin when in said stowable mode, said first covering distance being greater than said second covering distance; and wherein at least some of the geographically distributed charging station and storage containers are configured to automatically convert a stowable battery-electric vehicle from the horizontal drivable mode to the vertical stowable mode.